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Director Frank Nissen on Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…is not a spin-off of Twice Charmed. The film was developed around the same time as the Cruise Line show, with different teams creating each project. As DisneyToon Studios worked… |
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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
It is said that the health of a studio can be measured through the creativity of its artists, and that these artists’ creativity can best fully express itself through the… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…caught us in the world of theater, so we threw it into the lake and we invented another way. We did rehearsals with actors in our studio, we shot them… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
Jeremie Noyer speaks to two legendary Disney names that will be familiar to fans of the Studio’s recent animated output: multiple Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken, and musical orchestrator Danny… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…She has a big and very expressive sound. On the first day of recording, Matt Walker, the VP of music for DisneyToon Studios, asked if we could play a version… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…Union to work on big movies with studios such as Fox, Warner Brothers, Sony and Disney. At that time, we were about sixty storyboard artists/illustrators members, and now they are… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…the Roger Rabbit “Maroon Cartoons”, Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit and Trail Mix-Up. But this was no ordinary sequel that was being envisioned by the Disney Studios and Steven Spielberg’s… |
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Frank Walsh: On set with Prince Caspian’s Final Battle
…needs of the unit. This was because so much work was studio based, I could more easily support them directly as required on an ad hoc basis. However when the… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to talk with Disney Legend Burny Mattinson about his collaboration with Marc Davis on Maleficent, the film’s iconic villainess. Burny Mattinson was born in… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…France, a layout director for DisneyToon Studios, Australia and an art director (among other responsibilities) for the Despereaux Studio and Framestore, England. It was in the latter that he expressed… |
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Mad Monster Party
…to a full studio-quality recording of the main theme from Mad Monster Party, which spoofs the Shirley Bassey James Bond songs of the 60s. Going to the Extras menu, there’s… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…Warner Bros. Animation studio. With this terrific DVD edition, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t play again soon on a screen near you! Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing… |
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A Goofy Movie
…back at Disney, helming the Studio’s first foray back into traditional animated films with the live-action/cartoon combo Enchanted. The current Goofy Movie DVD adds an episode of TV’s Goof Troop,… |
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Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation
…Inbetweens, A Life In Animation is a very rewarding watch, as in depth as some other histories of the Warners Studio (1975’s Bugs Bunny Superstar springs to mind). For over… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…in its original full-frame 1.33:1, the half-hour featurette is a very tightly paced film, showing that the Studio was just as adept at quality live-action filmmaking as well as animation…. |
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Mickey Mouse: The Black And White Years
…I remember when I reviewed the Walt Disney Treasures tin set Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studio, I was struck by some of the images from Fantasia as… |
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Pinocchio Deluxe Edition
…talk a few months ago about Disney’s policy on their two-disc special edition DVD titles, and whether the Studio had abandoned them in favor of going a more packed single… |
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Balto
…style decision, one wonders if the box-office failure of the Amblimation Studio’s previous animated feature film We’re Back: A Dinosaur’s Story, which did contain a lot of effects and CG… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…in their intended aspect ratios (all of the shorts in this set are framed correctly at 1.33:1). Hanna and Barbera had been at the MGM studio by this time for… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…from 1953, and we can see that the stylised influences of other studios such as UPA and Warner Brothers had begun to make a difference in the look of the… |
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Cool World
…with only Disney’s traditional features keeping the medium afloat, aided by the occasional efforts from Don Bluth. Various studios tried their luck, mainly through partnerships with established animation houses and… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…big studio titles do sometimes. Nicely laid out, the film has been indexed with 19 chapter points. Ink And Paint: Presented full-frame, rest assured that, as a television production, this… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…Studio, though that’s not to say that this approach doesn’t work. The look suits Teacher’s Pet’s offbeat subject like a glove and shows there’s a lot of life left in… |
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Wizards
…the late 1970s – being only a notch or two up from the Filmation Studio output of around the same time. Most distracting is the disguised, not-even-rotoscoped footage, culled from… |
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Mulan II
DisneyToon Studios (November 15 2004), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 1 2005), single disc, 79 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard:… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures (November 5 2004), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 15 2005), 2 discs, 115 mins plus supplements, 2.39:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround EX, Rated… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
Entertainment Distributors/Filmation Studios/Atlantic Releasing/JVC (November 22 1985), MGM DVD (June 21 2005), single disc, 100 mins, 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital Stereo Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Set on… |
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The Animated Views Looney Launch Winners!
…COLLECTION VOLUME 4, is: Andrew Leviton, Studio City, California. Thanks to all who entered and congratulations to all of the above winners – stay tooned for further contests and giveaways… |
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Once Upon A Time…; Peter Pan specs…what's up with that?
…completed his survey recently on the history of the Filmation animation studio, so there’s plenty to catch up on! I’m also hard at work on something cool too – an… |
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Joe Barbera; Gremlins and Disney's Dog
…MGM library means that all their characters can mingle together, perhaps as it always should have been. Joe’s passing really does mark the end of the golden age, studio-sponsored, director-driven… |
