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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942

…at all, any real reference to the Fleischers being ousted from their Studio and the remainder of the series being completed under various Studio directors. This will give you a…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940

…the two-reelers, it is still far better than most of the shorts being pumped out by rival studios at the time. It was also another stepping stone in the studio’s…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny

…done so far and I actually asked if I could “borrow” some animators from various studios. The good think about some of the really big studios is that they try…

The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition

Walt Disney Productions (December 25 1963), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (June 17 2008), single disc, 79 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original negative ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G,…

Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs

…and said that he had left the animation studio and started a studio of his own! He offered me a summer internship position, which of course I took. It was…

Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!

…specializing in character-designs and mainly works in the small world of animation. After being a student at CFT Gobelins in Paris, he developed his art through various animation studios such…

Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!

…working on Who Framed Roger Rabbit at a studio in Camden. That studio was closed down. They didn’t continue the studio and make more movies there. They just shut it…

Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)

…etc) and the retro-dimensional-fitting of Tim Burton’s 1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas, it now seems the time for some of the Studio’s other renaissance pictures to get a third-dimension makeover….

Winnie The Pooh

Walt Disney Animation Studios (UK: April 15 2011 / US: July 15 2011), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (October 25 2011), 1 Blu-ray plus DVD and Digital Copy, 63 mins plus…

Up: 3D Edition

…it couldn’t be further from the truth. The unprecedented tenth straight hit in a row from the Studio, the film is truly Up-lifting on several levels, not least the beautiful…

Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…as much as I didn’t care for them a great jot, I would say that they fit more into the Studio’s mold of taking inanimate or fantasy objects and turning…

Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection

…release window that didn’t celebrate any kind of anniversary milestone, I had suggested that this otherwise fairly redundant line might be a decent way for the Studio to revisit the…

Didier Ghez uncovers the hidden art of Disney’s early renaissance

studio. Animation legend Wolfgang “Woolie” Reitherman spearheaded this age of renewal with two key goals: training the next generation of artist and animators, while also developing enduring characters and stories….

Howl’s Moving Castle

Studio Ghibli (2004), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (May 21, 2013), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 119 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, Rated PG, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: A girl…

Not a surprise: Kaguya-hime dominates Japanese box office

…the film earned $2.8 million in only two days. This is the first Studio Ghibli film released post-Hayao Miyazaki’s, the studio’s founder, retirement and the first directed by Isao Takahata…

Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red

…approached me to be part of it. All this started out as just friends playing around with ideas and sharing mutual interest like Studio Ghibli films, seeing how we could…

Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition

…the bustling, hyper-hip streets of New York City! The Sweatbox Review: I can still very vividly remember the first screening that I saw of the Disney Studio’s 27th animated feature…

A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2

…for leading to the studio’s closure! Previously, Lou Scheimer has stubbornly refused to ship any of Filmation’s work to overseas studios, as he wanted to keep his productions fully domestic….

Dalmatians 101: Lisa Davis’ “puppy love” for a dog-gone Disney classic

…How did the voice recordings go? LD: The way they worked is that they call you in to the Studio and you go into a very, very large recording studio

The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane

…work with the Studio, do you actually maintain that yourselves? DDM: Well Richard and Katherine Greene maintain that, but the Studio gave us the name Walt-Disney-dot-com. And I thought that…

Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition

Studio card announcing the birth of one of the artist’s babies), and an elephant visited the Studio as well – also contributing a fun sequence to The Reluctant Dragon feature….

The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition

…First released to theaters in 1994, The Lion King was definitely what one could call a “sleeper hit”. During production, the story went through re-write and development hell, then-Studio head…

Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition

…re-named DisneyToon Studios, based in Australia, is becoming better and better at churning out the goods. Originally two studios, with a satellite based in Canada, the Canadian studio was shut…

Chicken Little

…was, both for the fans awaiting the Studio’s long-in-the-making return to classic stories and for the Mouse House itself, seeing as this was their first time out of the gate…

The Complete Adventures Of The Little King

…Soglow’s comic strip comes to life via the Van Beuren Studio, and this collection includes the complete series: all ten Little King cartoons, and two pre-King Sentinel Louie shorts plus…

The Princess And The Frog

Walt Disney Animation Studios (December 11 2009), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 16 2010), single BD plus DVD and Digital Copy disc, 97 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen,…

The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition

…they saw on screen. Since his debut for the Studio in 1966, Winnie The Pooh quickly became a mainstay, even though there was a danger that the very British whimsical…

The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition

…The 1989 release of the Disney Studio’s The Little Mermaid and the continuous celebration of that film’s return to the grand traditions of Disney animation, leading to the Studio’s renaissance…

Maleficent

…popularity. Once upon a time the jewels in the crown of the Disney Studio’s library, these animated films were reissued on a seven year cycle, allowing for new generations to…

How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…

…stunning and inspiring to this day. AV: How did the studios work before such a job was “created?” DG: When it came to creating stories, the studios before Disney operated…