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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…then there’s a slow decline. So to take over in Season 9, when we had done close to 200 episodes, was pretty daunting, in that regard, because you don’t want… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…doing busy work or anything like that, I don’t really feel like it was ever that way. I don’t think it was devious or plotting or scheming on anybody’s part…. |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…Truly Moving Picture Award – 2009 Heartland Film Festival Stone Circle Pictures Red Shoes Productions WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY (Rated PG) Directed by Don Hahn Produced by Peter Schneider, Don Hahn… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…lot of great people. Probably the most challenging thing was that after we figured we were finished – you know, we had done the last scene; we had done color… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…of diminishing returns that still contain moments of true fantasy wonder. The least said about Brandon Routh’s belated one and only attempt at donning the cape the better. The Sweatbox… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…such previous direct-to-video titles as The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea and 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure. During the conversation, Kammerud shared his thoughts on Disney sequels… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…Donald tugging on his tails – nice! The disc art does what the films should have done and have Mickey for the original and Donald on the second, while the… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…acting was done by the young Ashley Peldon, who really brought Darla to life and Lindsay Ridgeway who was the singing voice. Rounding out the cast was comedian Kathy Najimi… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…is an occasion to look back and see what was done…and what was not done…we approached Tod Carter, a long-time DisneyToon collaborator, to be our guide through the history of… |
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Superman Classic creator Robb Pratt unveils Flash Gordon Classic
…I could have done three Superman Classics, or I could have done two Superman Classics and a Flash Gordon Classic – the second choice sounded like the better way to… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…I tried to, I tried to. I don’t want to force my ideas on anybody, but if the younger people have questions about the way things were done in years… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #110: Don Bluth & Gary Goldman Interview
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The animation world has been abuzz since animation legends Don Bluth and Gary Goldman announced they were doing a crowdfunding campaign for a sizzle reel… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…as the digital tape transfer that it came from, and the Cats Don’t Dance LD is one of the best I have seen for an animated title. Produced independently through… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…I wanted to animate that. Then, on my walk over from my apartment to the Opera Garnier, I was thinking: “What am I going to do?” I had never done… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…Studios – as a designer, storyboard artist, story writer and art director. He also worked on Don Bluth’s Titan A.E. special effects. Yet, meanwhile, he was self-teaching animation, up to… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…still alive at the studio at the time as – and he had done some work on our new Beauty and the Beast, but he had also done some work… |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
…technical challenges on that production? GS: No. It was the last production to be done traditionally. It was all hand-painted, all shot under camera. I don’t think we even went… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…true African Americans, the hint of blackface is still evident. However, they don’t seem to be specifically made up comedy characters: the audience appears to be being asked to laugh… |
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Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty
Does Don Hahn really need an introduction? Certainly not. So you can imagine the excitement that was mine when interviewing the man who’s produced so many masterpieces, about two of… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…Mike Maltese and Warren Foster, and directors Alex Lovy, Art Davis, Disney’s Charles Nichols, and Dan Gordon, who became credited for much of the success of The Flintstones’ first season…. |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…West. We formed Amblimation, which was Spielberg’s animation company in London. We did quite a few pictures. I spent another ten years then in London, working with Spielberg. We did… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…than I had done all along, and I don’t mind admitting that I even shed a tear, half for Lewis, and half in respect of the work that the artists… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…made by Walt Disney himself. In the late 1990s, there was not much holding the team of producer Don Hahn and director duo Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale back: they… |
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Frankenweenie
…theaters last year, but I don’t think it’s just down to this. It’s well known that modern (and foolish?) audiences don’t appreciate the silvery magic of black and white films… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…innocent. I don’t sit there and try to over critique or think of how “I would have done it”, the way I do when seeing film or TV. I think… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…with Don and Gary. Their film history is a little hazy – Don suggests this is one of the first animated CinemaScope films even though Lady And The Tramp pre-dates… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…by the popular song, “Don’t be a Jerk, It’s Christmas,” by Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob SquarePants) and Andy Paley. In this new special, Mr. Krabs’ nemesis, Plankton, vows to… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…montage… The Sweatbox Review: I’m sure glad we don’t have strict genre labels on this site, or else I’d have to go ahead and call Team America: World Police an… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…anything in the past that I would say is kid-oriented but I’m not sure because they don’t come out to the clubs. I don’t know if it’s the 2-drink minimum… |
