Presto and Glago’s Guest

Was privileged to see two new CG shorts last week: Disney Animation’s Glago’s Guest and Pixar’s Presto. Both films couldn’t be more …

Bolt vs. Hercules Posters

Celbi Pegoraro noticed on his blog Animation-Animagic.com that the poster for Disney’s upcoming Bolt bears a striking resemblance to the …

Sleeping Beauty at the Academy

A newly restored, digitally remastered version of Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959) will be presented on Friday, July 18, at 7:30 pm …

Presto looks good

This preview clip ran on Saturday night after Monsters, Inc. (Thanks, Aldon Spears)

Oswald Rabbit tees

Lucky Brand Jeans is producing cool Oswald the Lucky Rabbit t-shirts for adult men and women. It’s only been 80 years in coming. Gray and …

Stay Awake in concert

Hal Willner’s 1988 Disney tribute CD, Stay Awake, is going live. Stay Awake: the Official 20th Anniversary Concert will take place at …

The Disney-Pixar Merger…Two Years Later

In yesterday’s NY Times there was a lengthy article about how things are going at Disney two years after its merger with Pixar. The …

Disney’s Tinkerbell

Disney’s upcoming direct-to-video Tinkerbell series has just released its first trailer – and it’s feeling less like classic Disney and …

Disney Animators Vs. Producers

This video from 1980 is not what you think. It’s a game of volleyball played between the Disney execs and animation artists of the time, …

Disney’s Paper Cut-out Animation

I’m a longtime fan of the incredible (and overlooked) stop motion paper cut-out animation sequences created by Bill Justice and Xavier …

Lunch with Disney’s “Alice”

This Saturday, May 24, 2008, Women in Animation will present a salon featuring Virginia Davis, the original star of Walt Disney’s Alice …

Disney Music in Vancouver

The Telus World of Science in Vancouver, which I believe is a children’s museum, is hosting an exhibit called Disney: The Music Behind …

Disney History 1984-2008

Ryan Peterson, a student of Media Studies at Vassar College, created this mini-film (technically an animatic) about the Michael Eisner …

The Disney Girls

I’m fascinated by the continually emerging stories of women who worked in creative positions at Disney during its Golden Age. Women …

Remembering Joe Grant

Today is Joe Grant’s 100th birthday (or the 100th anniversary of his birth). Howard Green sent us these pix with a note, “He passed away …

Bolt Character Designs

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but unfortunately, none of those words are appropriate for printing on this blog. Even …

Disney’s Roadside Romeo

For those of you who think Beverly Hills Chihuahua will be the worst Disney CGI film of the year… submitted for your approval, Roadside …

Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua

What fresh C.G. Hell is this? Sandwiched between this summer’s Wall•E and the Christmas release of Bolt, Disney is unleashing …

Walt and El Grupo

Karl Cohen (president of ASIFA-San Francisco) just sent us his first impressions of Walt and El Grupo the new film by Ted Thomas, which I …

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