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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…start: an unwieldy book difficult to translate adequately to film, the walkout by a renegade group of animators led by Don Bluth which slowed production down, and the takeover attempt… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…Penguin MGM-Fox Family Fun Editions Don Bluth finally gets some just recognition for his early work in a much anticipated release for his first feature, NIMH, while his producing partner… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…hasn’t gone on to at least a sub-Don Bluth career, since his staging here reveals some good ideas and some nice touches, sometimes unneeded, that help add to the epic… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…Don Bluth’s own independent short, the delightful Banjo The Woodpile Cat, that has so many similarities they’re too numerous to mention, not least the casting of Scatman Crothers, later of… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…Although the series didn’t find its water-wings, the overwhelming success of the original animated feature in a 1997 theatrical re-release (purposely promoted by Disney against Fox’s Don Bluth picture Anastasia)… |
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Happy Feet Two
…John Goodman and Patrick Warburton, memories of Bartok, the magnificent albino bat in Don Bluth’s Anastasia may come flooding back: Sven is to Azaria what Shrek’s Donkey was to Eddie… |
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Strange Magic
…in a CG version of some surreal nightmare version of a bad Don Bluth movie and making sudden character trait changes amongst other random choices. For instance, our supposed hero… |
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…own plusses, so don’t go throwing out what you may already have. The confusion over this release is highlighted more in the Case Study below, but top of average customer’s… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…film could be deemed suitable enough for a trip to the theaters? Maybe for a Christmastime release!? • Finally this morning, we’ve got the good news that Don Bluth‘s first… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…Winnie The Pooh in 1977, the next generation of artists – including Don Bluth, Glen Keane, Andreas Deja and a host of now regular names on Disney’s film credits –… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…a quotable movie for recycled animation shots well into the Eisner/Katzenberg era, also unquestionably influencing Don Bluth’s own independent short, the delightful Banjo The Woodpile Cat, that has so many… |
