Classic

Disney Animation Backgrounds

Last month we posted about Hans Bacher’s excellent blog Animation Treasures, in which Bacher does an amazing job re-creating classic …

Animators

A Few Good Blogs

Three good artist blogs you can’t go wrong with… Alberto Mielgo is among those animation artists today whose work really excites …

Animators

RIP, Art Stevens

I was out of town when this news emerged a couple weeks ago but I wanted to make mention of the passing of Disney animator and director …

TV

Simpsons in Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair has published an extensive oral history about The Simpsons. The piece includes the thoughts of everybody from cartoonist Gary …

Animators

Fred Boot

Fred Boot is a French graphic designer and cartoonist who has been living in Hong Kong for the last 6 months. He’s started a nice blog …

Classic

Pingwings Rediscovered

Tony Mines of Spite Your Face Productions sent me a note about an early-1960s British animated series, The Pingwings, which had been …

Books

Disney’s Lost Chords

Russell Schroeder has written and self-published an eye-opening (and ear-opening) book on the unused music for Disney films (both …

Disney

Keep Moving Forward

This isn’t a review or critique of Meet The Robinsons, but I saw the film today at a screening at the El Capitan, in 3-D. In a …

TV

REVIEW: El Tigre (Nickelodeon)

My introduction to Jorge Gutierrez’s work was at the 1999 CalArts Producers’ Show. It was a screening of his CG short Carmelo. If I …

Disney

New Peter Pan DVD Ruined?

I haven’t seen the new Peter Pan 2-Disc Platinum Edition, but according to the prolific UK animation director Oscar Grillo, the dvd is a …

Disney

Mo’ Better Mickey Meat Burgers

What is this obsession I have with Euro-Disney food? This is not quite as strange as Mickey Mouse liver paste, but these frozen …

Animators

Ryan Larkin (1943-2007)

Canadian animation legend Ryan Larkin passed away on February 14 from brain cancer. Larkin directed and animated the 1969 Oscar-nominated …

Old Brew

Id These Pig Cels

Brew readers with a keen eye and a vast knowledge of Disney TV and movies, here’s a question for you. These cels (above) were recently …

Old Brew

Oswald At Your Service

(Click on pictures for a larger version of each) Aren’t these cool? Too bad we may never get a chance to buy ’em.Disney character …

Old Brew

Zombie Redenbacher

Files this one under “Commercials For People Who Can’t Get Enough Of Polar Express and Monster House.” Apparently the people who own the …

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