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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…bear of a man, who was so kind and sweet and interested in me and what I was doing. He said: “I will find something for you in a picture… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1–3
…ran wasn’t making a show featuring characters based on the hottest candy on the market – Gummi Bears, which his kids loved – Disney finally entered the fully-animated original-for-television game… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season
…a heart-warming tale of Finn befriending a bear— a bear that wants to be a little too much like him. The sinister overtones of the story produce a twist ending… |
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Cars
…for a supposedly bare bones compilation of features. There’s no added DVD-ROM material to bear the brunt of wide criticism against the light extras included here and for which Disney… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…the times, though it’s clearly racially insensitive today, especially when a Jewish customer turns up to have his beard washed. Considering what Disney was doing with the Silly Symphonies at… |
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Muppet Babies Composers Andy Bean & Keith Horn Make Your Dreams Come True
…hilarious playroom antics of a young Kermit the Frog, Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo and Animal – plus a brand-new Muppet Baby, Summer Penguin. Music plays an important role in the… |
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Bambi II
…product of modern Disney with its attitude and nods – intentional or not – to the Studio’s recent animal and environmentally friendly features Pocahontas, The Lion King and Brother Bear…. |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs
…in particular): Can you tell me about your style in general? When you look at pieces like Beam Me Up or Bunny Eater, or Poison Heart Bear, etc, there seem… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…casting classically cute Disney animated animals as the legend’s characters. So the wily Robin himself perhaps naturally becomes a fox, while the traditionally oxymoron-named Little John is a Baloo-style bear… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…for the girl proves too much for him to bear and a wedge between the two men splits their destinies in separate directions. Further creating tension is Paris’ new Captain… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…animation artists, then Lilo And Stitch would be the final note on the subject. The films that came afterwards (Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Home On The Range) did have things… |
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2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive
…and Miguel in The Road to El Dorado, before moving over to Pixar for over ten years. He also developed his own comic strip called Molly and the Bear. Scott… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…Bear features), How To Haunt A House has Goofy assuming the role of the recently deceased in order to show us the correct way of, well, haunting a house. Donald… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2! Yes, Brunhilde and Michigan J. Frog included!
…1947) “Mouse Wreckers” (Hubie and Bertie/Claude Cat – 1948) “Bear For Punishment” (Henry, Ma, & Junyer Bear – 1951) “Cheese Chasers” (Hubie and Bertie – 1951) “One Froggy Evening” (Michigan… |
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Prep & Landing landing again
…“The Ballad of Nessie.” His previous Disney film credits include “Mulan,” “Tarzan,” Lilo & Stitch,” “Brother Bear,” and “Chicken Little.” Stevie Wermers-Skelton began her association with Walt Disney Animation Studios… |
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The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones
…to be distributed in the late 1980s, this storyline seems like a perfect project. It was the second one to air, following Yogi’s Great Escape. And what, exactly, would one… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts V and VI
…array of pretzel shapes that would flummox the finest Yogi. Elastigirl pushed the animators one step further. “Helen had probably the most complex articulation rig we’ve ever made,” comments Wise…. |
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Jim Hill Updates: Damage Control, Image Control, and Cartoon Trivia
…full of heretofore little-known anecdotes and factoids from animation history. Read on and find out what baseball great Yogi Berra thought of his name being used as the inspiration for… |
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Pixar 2012: Brave and Monsters Inc. sequel
Box Office Mojo reports that Pixar will be releasing a sequel to Monsters Inc. in November 2012 and that The Bear and the Bow has been renamed Brave and pushed… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…animated film, The Prince of Egypt. SW: Right, but you’ve got to bear in mind Mars was three years in the making. We started writing back in October 2007. So… |
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Tradition Studios First Animated Feature is The Legend of Tembo
…about a baby elephant separated from his family and sent to India. Chuck Williams and Aaron Blaise are on the roister to direct. Blaise co-directed Brother Bear and was a… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…fulfilling Walt’s own dream of a Pooh Bear feature with the compilation The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, the next generation of artists – including Don Bluth, Glen Keane,… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…bear. Ron is more structure oriented and is good with emotion. I lean towards the comic and action set pieces. RI: What was your most memorable experience working on The… |
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Kung Fu Panda lawsuit thrown out
…film Kung Fu Panda. Dunn’s alleged pitch was about a kung-fu fighting panda bear who was “adopted by five animal friends in the forest (a tiger, a leopard, a dragon,… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
…a polar bear. Episode Two – All shorts in this episode are set in the city, and two are related to a hotel. Joy Riding Jokers – Tom and Jerry… |
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Little Nemo, The Muppet Movie among those added to National Film Registry
…leads TV series regulars Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Ralph and Animal on a road trip to Hollywood where they encounter numerous characters played by such actors as Steve Martin, Mel… |
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Norm up next from Lionsgate, Crest Animation
…features a polar bear forced out of his arctic home who finds work in New York. Later this year the two companies will release Alpha and Omega, a “wolves-on-the-run adventure”…. |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…he asked his crew to create films on Winnie the Pooh, on that plain and simple and delicate, silly old bear… HJ: What I was impressed with the directors was:… |
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Poster for The Muppets revealed
…seen on the big screen in more than a decade. Starring Kermit the Frog, Fozzy the Bear and Gonzo the…whatever he is, The Muppets comes to theaters everywhere this Thanksgiving…. |
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Tombstone
…showed up), but the biggest bug-bear is that all of the standard definition 4:3 material has been stretched out to fill the 16:9 frame, meaning that everyone at all times… |