John Lasseter: Disney and Pixar Will Have More “Female, Ethnic Characters”
John Lasseter says that Disney and Pixar will aim to increase diversity onscreen—and hopefully offscreen too.
John Lasseter says that Disney and Pixar will aim to increase diversity onscreen—and hopefully offscreen too.
Their new cloud-enabled platform will allow indie producers to make work faster and more efficiently.
But the fight isn't over yet. Animation artists have 30 days to produce new evidence.
The major studios filed a motion last Friday in federal court asking a judge to dismiss the antitrust wage-fixing lawsuit that had been filed by animation industry employees.
"Why should kids be the only ones who get pleasure out of animation," says the revered indie animation director Bill Plympton. "It offends me that American animation is stereotyped this way."
DreamWorks announced this afternoon that veteran producers Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria, the respective lead producers of the studio's "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Madagascar" franchises, will oversee creative development and production for DreamWorks Animation’s theatrical releases.
For the first time in 17 years, no animated feature earned enough global box office dollars to rank among the top ten-grossing worldwide theatrical releases.
Disney Animation and Pixar president Ed Catmull is listing one of his compounds in Kailua, Hawaii, just two years after building it.
Ed Catmull allegedly told Disney artists they were free to find higher-paying work at other studios while he knew they couldn't.
The wage-theft scheme operated by major American animation studios continues to grow with no end in sight.
Business publication The Motley Fool offers an interesting assessment of which Disney acquisition—Pixar or Marvel—generates more revenue for the studio.
Disney has set release dates for its two 2016 releases: Zootopia and Moana.
Here's a look at how some Disney employees came to work today.
Yesterday evening, Pixar quietly revealed on Twitter that the new director of "The Good Dinosaur," scheduled to be released in November 2015, is Peter Sohn.
While animation has been made in Romania for many decades and the country has even produced some internationally recognized figures like Ion Popescu-Gopo, the contemporary animation scene hadn't received much exposure until the founding of the Anim'est festival.
Everything you need to know about the possible sale of DreamWorks to Japanese company SoftBank.
Shocking details of wage-theft conspiracy emerge in a class action lawsuit filed against DreamWorks, Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Digital Domain 3.0, Sony Pictures Imageworks and others.
Pixar and Disney Animation president Ed Catmull has always had a reputation as a decent person, but newly revealed court documents show that he's been working against the interests of Pixar's employees for years, as well as trying to hurt other studios who didn't play by his rules.
Tech site Pando Daily has been providing amazing coverage of the Department of Justice antitrust invesigation and subsequent class action lawsuits over wage-fixing amongst Silicon Valley tech companies and animation studios.
On a couple occasions throughout the years, people have asked me, Why do so many animated films have dead mothers in them?