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Animators

Gallery: Newly
Discovered Tom Oreb …

Tom Oreb is recognized by many as being one of the finest character
designers during the Golden Age of Hollywood animation. …

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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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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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Disney

The “Wreck-It Ralph” 8-bit End Credits
by Jerry Beck   Thursday February 7, 2013   5:20 pm
The stylish 8-bit styled end-credits for Wreck-It Ralph have now been post online.
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Disney

How To Watch Philip Glass’s Walt Disney Opera “The Perfect American” Online
by Amid Amidi   Saturday February 2, 2013   12:41 pm
The new Philip Glass opera The Perfect American, based on Peter
Stephan Jungk’s novel of the same name, debuted on January 22 …
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Disney

Disney’s “Paperman” full short now online
by Jerry Beck   Wednesday January 30, 2013   10:52 am
Directed by John Kahrs – and talked about frequently here on the Brew – Disney has just posted the complete film online.
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Disney

Disney Shuts Down Epic Mickey Studio; Warren Spector Leaving Disney
by Amid Amidi   Tuesday January 29, 2013   3:08 pm
Disney announced today that they will shut down
Austin,Texas-based Junction Point, the game studio that had …
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Cartoon Culture

“The Lion King” in CGI
by Amid Amidi   Monday January 28, 2013   11:34 pm
CG remakes of hand-drawn cartoons are generally a letdown. This is the exception.
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Animators

Lost Disney Gag Drawings of “Snow White” Artist Discovered
by Amid Amidi   Thursday January 17, 2013   1:38 am
Italian-American artist Joe Magro was hired at Disney in 1936 during the studio’s expansion to produce Snow White and the Seven …
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