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Category Archives: Disney

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Bad Ideas

Did Disney Steal
“Alice in Wonderland” …

Artist Katie Woodger is claiming on her Tumblr this morning that
Disney’s Consumer Products division has been reproducing her Alice …

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Business

Disney Will Lay Off People in the Animation Division
by Amid Amidi   Friday April 5, 2013   11:50 am
More workforce cuts are coming to Disney. Following the closure
of LucasArts, Reuters news service reported yesterday that …
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Business

BREAKING: Disney Shuts Down LucasArts; 150 Staffers Laid Off
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday April 3, 2013   10:59 am
The shake-out from Disney’s $4 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm
continues. This morning, Disney shut down LucasArts, the …
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Disney

Exclusive: Unseen Home Movie Footage of Walt Disney
by Amid Amidi   Wednesday April 3, 2013   6:12 am
This rarely seen footage of Walt Disney trying out a scale railroad was filmed 65 years ago.
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Animators

Analyzing My Favorite Piece of Animation: Tigger by Milt Kahl
by Michael Ruocco   Monday March 25, 2013   11:28 am
Sometimes when I’m animating, I recharge my creative batteries
by watching some of my favorite scenes or pieces of animation. …
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Animators

Disney’s Crankiest Veteran is Still Cranky, And Thinks Walt Disney Was “A Shit”
by Amid Amidi   Sunday March 24, 2013   9:45 am
When you invite certified Disney legend Walt Peregoy (Sleeping
Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Sword in the Stone) to visit a studio, …
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Animators

Gallery: Newly Discovered Tom Oreb Gag Drawings
by Amid Amidi   Thursday March 21, 2013   7:47 pm
Tom Oreb is recognized by many as being one of the finest
character designers during the Golden Age of Hollywood …
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Disney

The Beautiful Failure of Walt Disney’s Burbank Studio
by Amid Amidi   Monday March 18, 2013   3:08 pm
In the late-1930s, Walt Disney enlisted German architect and
industrial designer Kem Weber to design a state-of-the-art …
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Cartoon Modern

Disney Is Producing New Mickey Mouse Shorts and Premiered the First One Today [UPDATED]
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday March 12, 2013   1:47 pm
Disney unveiled a new Mickey Mouse short today called Croissant
de Triomphe, that can be viewed HERE. It is one of 19 new …
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Animators

Mary Louise Whitham Eastman, RIP
by Amid Amidi   Saturday March 9, 2013   8:06 pm
Michael Sporn reports the sad news that Mary Louise Whitham
Eastman passed away last Wednesday, February 27th, at age 97. …
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Business

How Disney Bought Lucasfilm
by Amid Amidi   Thursday March 7, 2013   11:44 am
Good long-read in Businessweek about how Disney bought the Star
Wars franchise and Lucasfilm. The article is short on major …
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Disney

Disney Releases “Planes” Trailer
by Amid Amidi   Sunday March 3, 2013   1:41 am
The trailer announces “From above the world of Cars…Disney’s
Planes.” Now that Disney owns Pixar, the calculated …
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kristinareed-paperman

Awards

“Paperman” Producer Kristina Reed Kicked Out of Oscar Ceremony—For Throwing Paper Airplanes
by Amid Amidi   Sunday February 24, 2013   9:30 pm
What is with animation folks being thrown out of the Oscar
ceremony? Tonight’s hot gossip is that Paperman producer …
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Advertising

Rare Disney Car Commercials Designed by Tom Oreb
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday February 12, 2013   12:10 am
For a short period of time during the mid-1950s, the Disney
company allowed corporations to use its characters to sell …
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Cartoon Culture

Paper Mon
by Amid Amidi   Monday February 11, 2013   12:06 am
When Rasta meets Disney—a parody by Eddie Holly.
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