Artist of the Day: Mindy Lee
Today we look at the work of Mindy Lee, Cartoon Brew's Artist of the Day!
Today we look at the work of Mindy Lee, Cartoon Brew's Artist of the Day!
Steve Hulett recounts his role in the the confusing and chaotic production of Disney's most un-Disney-like feature, "The Black Cauldron."
In addition to "Star Vs. The Forces of Evil," Disney TV Animation is producing a second action/comedy series slated to debut on Disney XD in 2015: "Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero."
Actor Robin Williams has died at the age of 63 from an apparent suicide.
"Chief has to DIE,” Ron Clements said. “The picture doesn't work if he just breaks his LEG. Copper doesn't have enough motivation to hate the fox."
Cartoon Brew's fifth annual Student Animation Festival will launch tomorrow, August 5th, with the grand-prize winning work "Mr. Piggy Dies in 25 Dimensions" by Josh Sehnert.
Don Bluth and his troops were gone, but the studio still had an animated movie to get out. Art Stevens, now lead director, was slowly pulling the picture together with the animators and layout artists who remained loyal to the Mouse. But the animation department was still in flux.
On Monday, Jeffrey Katzenberg became just the second animation figure to receive the National Medal of Arts.
It's the roaring twenties and things are looking great for Frederick Frinklesworth II and the rest of the New York Stock Exchange, but when his daughter Betty is left in his care for the day can Fredrick and Wall Street survive the mayhem that ensues?
President Obama will honor DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg with the 2013 National Medal of Arts.
The West Coast might have its Comic-Con this week, but the East Coast will be enjoying animated films at the 11th annual Animation Block Party, which starts tomorrow and continues through Sunday.
Don Bluth smiled at me. "I wouldn't worry about being laid off from Disney's, Steve. Nobody gets laid off around here. When somebody messes up, the studio just sends them to WED."
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.
The nominations for the 66th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning, and the big animation news isn't who was nominated, but who wasn't: "The Simpsons"
Sony Pictures Animation is exploring new directions with the announcement of the stop motion/live-action hybrid feature "Superbago." The superhero-themed film will be directed by John Harvatine and Eric Towner, both veterans of "Robot Chicken" among other animated TV shows.
Disney is developing a live-action feature based on the 1941 animated film Dumbo. Ehren Kruger, who has written or co-written three of the four Michael Bay "Transformers" films, will write the script
My wrestling match with Ken Anderson now over, I returned once more to Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman and Larry Clemmons, working on the story end of "The Fox and the Hound."
The all-CG "Smurfs" reboot won't be released until 2016, but you wouldn't know that from the aggressive manner in which Sony Pictures Animation is promoting the film.
Disney veteran Lino DiSalvo, the head of animation on "Frozen" who gained notoriety for comments about animating women, has left Disney to join Paramount Animation as its creative director. He is also slated to direct an upcoming animated feature at the studio.
It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between YouTube cartoons dreamt up by teens in their bedrooms and big-budget TV studio productions created by professionally-trained artists. Today, Disney Television Animation announced the beginning of production on "Pickle & Peanut," a "buddy comedy series about two unlikely friends—an emotional pickle and a freewheeling peanut...two underdogs who dream up plans to be anything but ordinary."