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DuckTales: Volume 1
…and books featuring the work of Mr. Barks. Barks was a former story man at the Walt Disney studio, having started there in 1935 as an in-betweener in the animation… |
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The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series
…then with a few B-movies and a 1951 TV show (mostly played in these incarnations by Ralph Byrd). Then, in 1960, trend-setting animation studio UPA took a crack at the… |
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The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition
…movie, it makes an even bigger difference. The animation was actually farmed out to Topcraft in Japan, a studio that has brought along many talented artists, but the low budget… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…disc for completeness’ sake, there are several things that make it an inferior production. First of all, it was not even produced at the Disney studio! It was actually farmed… |
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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…same people when the Fleischer studio was taken over by Paramount and re-named Famous Studios in 1942. In all, there were well over 200 Fleischer/Famous Popeye cartoons produced from 1933… |
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Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection
…1800 papers. With numbers like that, one can see that creating an animated series made perfect sense. Enter Paramount Cartoon Studios, the former Famous Studios, an animation studio that had… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three
…meet a bee character (never named, but known in the studio as “Spike” or “Buzz Buzz”) and Bootle Beetle, as well as a few encounters with his nephews Huey, Dewey… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…up-and-coming talents to develop their artistic styles. It was a place where a creator could become the driving force behind a show. The studio that had brought Rugrats and Doug… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…to television series to breaking DVD release announcements. Separating the revelations and speculations by studios, Rumored Rumblings provides a handy summarization of the animation-related festivities found at Comic-Con, including links… |
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Rumors abound for Disney, Fox projects
…Studios, as referenced on the Ice Age 3 page. Meanwhile, a possible update on The Neopets Movie has arrived at the site. Supposedly, the film is to feature an original… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…lot of times, when you’ve got the job, animation is a slow process, and there are many challenges along the way. If you work for a large studio, you’re going… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…return to shorts in How To Hook Up Your Home Theater, Eric is currently the Supervising Animator on the Michael Leon Wooley-voiced character of Louis the alligator in the Studio’s… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…about trying to do something great no matter what the medium. AV: What are some of the comparisons and contrasts between the animation studios for which you’ve worked? BB: Honestly,… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter One: Screenwriter Bill Kelly, the one that started it all!
…about a year to write back in approximately 1997. AV: How did you find the right studio to shoot your script? BK: Sunil Perkash and I orginally pitched the story… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…is the only studio note that was actually implemented. RI: Who was your personal favorite character in Nightmare? HS: The one I’m closest to is Jack Skellington, because as a… |
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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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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…became an animator at the Walt Disney Studios in the early 80s and it is in 1988 that he directed Oliver & Company. After working on numerous other features including… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…Heaven and Disney’s Jungle Book 2. As for George Griffin, he’s a well-known jazz devotee. A New-Yorker since 1967, he apprenticed in commercial cartoon studios, was influenced by Robert Breer… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…un-official first was Robert Benchley’s tour of the Studio in The Reluctant Dragon, which only featured a couple of shorts as well as the title featurette. Many of the cartoons… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…the story’s hero in the title: Basil, The Great Mouse Detective). 1986 was not a rosy time at the Disney Studios. Bluth had walked out several years before, taking with… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…as they were in 1975. Clampett takes over as an on-screen host, revealing the influences the cartoonists had being in the middle of a full working movie studio, and there… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (January 21 2003), single disc, 73 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Picking up soon after… |
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The DisneyLand Anthology
…introduces the audience to his Studio and lifts the curtain on what would become DisneyLand, the theme park. This is behind the scenes at its best, as we’re given a… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures (May 30 2003), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (November 4 2003), 2 discs, 100 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Surround, Rated… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…own style, to Tex’s work for MGM, and Mel Blanc in the studio) and is simply a wonderful inclusion in the set and an essential watch as well! Rounding out… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…Studio has decreed that it will not continue with its “tradigital” animated offerings based on the performance of such a lop-sided effort (does that mean we also won’t have to… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…And Ollie’s Debut Scenes is just that: their first sequences for the Disney Studio. From the 1936 Mickey’s Elephant comes a Frank scene featuring Pluto (with some strange sound effects… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…an interesting look at the production, supposedly told in snapshots from various Tuesdays during the making of the film, when Paul would stop by the studio to offer his input…. |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…and great entertainment that Nemo provides, it does come from a major studio on a hot roll of churning out the somewhat formulaic goods, while Belleville is an independent film,… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 17 2004), single disc, 75 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Apparently set… |
