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. His 48-year-career as an effects animator also included an extended stint with Don Bluth on projects like The Secret of NIMH, Dragon’s Lair and An American Tail, which is why Don Bluth penned the book’s foreword. The book sells for a modest 
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November 29, 2010 10:00 am
Released mid-2010, in a “limited edition” of 250,000, was this Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Collector’s Pez Set. Must have seemed like a good idea at the time… but the designers failed to notice an inappropriate design flaw. Luckily, toy collector Mike Mozart caught it and brought it to our attention: 25 Comments » posted in Bad Ideas, Disney, pez 
November 24, 2010 6:49 am
(November 23rd, 2010) BFI Southbank and The Walt Disney Company have launched a season offering audiences a very rare opportunity to enjoy the magic of Disney’s entire collection of animation feature films on the big screen. Every weekend throughout 2011, the Disney heritage will be showcased, spanning seventy years of films that combine beautiful artistry, masterful storytelling and ground-breaking technology. The season will launch with the UK premiere of Disney’s fiftieth animated feature film Tangled, a comedic re-imagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale, Rapunzel. Tangled will screen in 3D on 16 January and will be followed by a special on-stage Q&A with the film’s directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. The remaining 49 films will be shown in chronological order at BFI Southbank every weekend for the rest of the year, starting with Disney’s first animation feature, and the first ever animation feature in technicolour, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). BFI Southbank will also host a range of on-stage events with Disney artists and directors past and present throughout the year. 2 Comments » posted in biz, BFI, Disney
November 22, 2010 3:28 pm
Dorse A. Lanpher is one of a handful of artists who can say he worked on Disney classics like Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians as well as contemporary features like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Tarzan. Lanpher recently self-published a memoir called Flyin’ Chunks and Other Things to Duck: Memoirs of a Life Spent Doodling for Dollars 3 Comments » posted in Animators, Books, Disney, Disney, Don Bluth, Dorse A. Lanpher
September 27, 2010 10:15 am
I’m not sure how this 2D clip from the upcoming Disney game, Epic Mickey, fits with the rest of the game and clips we’ve seen, but it’s certainly intriguing. Here Mickey and Gremlin Gus explore Mean Street, and encounter the Phantom Blot and Walt himself (as a statue, with Oswald): UPDATE: The 2D cut-scenes in the game were produced by Austin, Texas-based Powerhouse Animation Studios. (Thanks, Matthew Gaastra) 31 Comments » posted in Games, Disney, Epic Mickey
August 17, 2010 6:00 am
Doug Post of Woodbury University saves everything and recently found this article in a newsletter he used to get as a child. It’s a section of the November 1973 issue of General Motors American Youth magazine. It features an article on teenage filmmakers – and highlights future animator/director Eric Goldberg discussing how he got interested in animation and his afternoon visiting the Disney studio. Eric gave us permission to post the pages below (click thumbnails to enlarge), with this comment:
(Thanks, Doug Post, Dori Littell-Herrick and Eric Goldberg) 12 Comments » posted in Animators, Disney, Eric Goldberg
August 5, 2010 2:53 pm
Bob McIntosh passed away on June 17, 2010 at the age of 94. Born on March 11, 1916 in Vallejo, California, and raised in Stockton, Bob discovered painting at an early age. Encouraged by Harry Noyes Pratt, the director of Stockton’s then-newly opened Haggin Museum, and mentored by local painter Arthur Haddock, McIntosh applied for a scholarship to Art Center in Los Angeles. He moved with his family to LA in 1934 to attend the school, and afterwards was hired at Disney where he worked on a number of the studio’s features, including Bambi for which he painted multiplane backgrounds directly onto glass. He was drafted into the First Motion Picture Unit during WWII. Following the war, he joined Paul J. Fennell’s commercial studio Cartoon Films Ltd. where he worked on contemporary looking commercials (along with designer Ed Benedict) that prefigured the move towards cartoon modernism in the 1950s. He joined UPA in the early-1950s and stayed there for the entire decade, primarily painting backgrounds for the Mister Magoo series. This is what I wrote about his work in Cartoon Modern: “McIntosh worked in perhaps the most simplified style of any of the UPA background painters. His ‘poster style’ background paintings used minimal rendering techniques and clean geometric shapes, recalling the work of artists like Stuart Davis and Fernand Léger.” After UPA, Bob painted backgrounds on The Alvin Show and The Lone Ranger at Format Films, George of the Jungle for Jay Ward Productions, and Chuck Jones’s The Phantom Tollbooth, among other projects, before retiring in the early-1980s. It was a pleasure to get to know Bob while I was writing Cartoon Modern and I kept in touch with him over the last few years of his life. Bob had an admirably unwavering commitment to painting. Though his career in animation stretched over forty years, animation wasn’t his primary passion; it was painting that excited him, and animation provided a steady income allowing him to do what he loved best. He had exhibited his personal artwork since the 1940s, and his lifelong passion for painting resulted in hundreds of canvases in almost every single imaginable style. In his final years, when painting became difficult, he continued to create painted collage canvases. A wonderful life-spanning selection of his paintings can be seen at the Trigg Ison gallery website which represents his work. Bob was an intensely private person. He never initiated contact; I always had to call him. But when I did call, he was always gracious and friendly. The half dozen or so times I visited him at his home where memorable experiences as he would speak for hours about painting and his life. Our conversations would inevitably shift back to his latest painting projects or his personal theories on painting and color. He was ever the gentleman, even in his advanced years, and dressed with class. He had a good sense of humor about himself and the world around him; whenever I asked him about events that had happened in the past, he enjoyed making jokes about his age by saying, “I think that happened in 1939…or was that 1839?” He would laugh heartily when he recalled the last name of one of his instructors at Art Center: Stan Reckless. He once showed me a collection of unused toilet paper he had gathered during a trip to Europe in the 1940s; the shortage of paper in postwar Europe gave their toilet paper a quality similar to wax paper, which had amused Bob. Bob is one of the unsung heroes of animation; an artist who worked in the background (and on the backgrounds) while quietly raising the standards of the art form with his masterful artistry. It was a delight and an honor having known him for the short time that I did. His wife, Helen Nerbovig McIntosh, an important woman artist at Disney, preceded him in death. He is survived by his daughter Jorjana Kellaway, his grandson, Colin Kellaway, and his ninety-six year old brother, Harrison McIntosh, who is a well-known ceramicist. Here are a few images celebrating McIntosh’s life and work:
6 Comments » posted in Animators, Bambi, Bob McIntosh, Disney, Mister Magoo, RIP, UPA
July 18, 2010 7:05 pm
Veteran feature animator Pres Romanillos passed away yesterday at the age of 47 after a battle with leukemia. His wife Jeannine posted on his Facebook group:
He most recently animated Prince Naveen in The Princess and the Frog. He studied fine arts and illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York before beginning his animation career at Disney on The Little Mermaid. He worked on a total of eight animated features at Disney, including supervising animator of the villain Shan-Yu in Mulan. He also animated on five DreamWorks features including The Road to El Dorado, Madagascar and Shrek 2. His drawings can be seen on this blog and this blog. UPDATE: Obituary by Charles Solomon in the LA Times. Remembrances |
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