‘Tomorrowland’ Could Lose Disney $140 Million
The silver lining: Brad Bird is returning to animation.
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Brad Bird: ‘I Want to Do Another Hand-Drawn Animated Feature’
The “Iron Giant” director has revealed that he’s not done yet with hand-drawn animation.
Brad Bird Hints That His Next Film Will Be ‘Incredibles 2’
The director will be slipping back into the animation spandex very, very soon.
Animated Sequences from Brad Bird’s ‘Tomorrowland’ Released Online
The sequences were originally supposed to appear in the film itself.
Long-Lost Pencil Test Trailer for Brad Bird’s ‘The Spirit’ Revealed
A much sought-after piece of animation history has surfaced on YouTube at last.
Sam Simon, Co-Creator of ‘The Simpsons,’ Dies at 59
Colleagues and admirers are remembering the creative genius of the man who helped create “The Simpsons.”
Disney Drops Brad Bird’s ‘Tomorrowland’ Trailer
The full trailer for Disney and Brad Bird’s ‘Tomorrowland’ has arrived.
Animation Is Not A Genre: Oscar Edition
At the Oscars tonight, The Rock called animation a genre. It’s not.
‘LEGO Movie’ Directors Turned Down Offer To Run Sony Animation
“LEGO Movie” Phil Lord and Chris Miller turned down an offer to run Sony Animation because “it’s too hard to do great work there.”
‘Mouse in Transition’: The CalArts Brigade Arrives (Chapter 9)
“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.”
Know Your Feature Animation Cliches: The Dead Mother
On a couple occasions throughout the years, people have asked me, Why do so many animated films have dead mothers in them?
Richard Linklater Will Remake ‘Incredible Mr. Limpet’
Richard Linklater, currently nominated for an Oscar for “Before Midnight”‘s screenplay, is making strides on the Warner Bros. remake of “Incredible Mr. Limpet,” a project with which he has been involved since 2011.
The Use of the Dolly Zoom in “Ratatouille”
Todd Vaziri, a compositing supervisor at ILM, has written an enlightening piece about the subtle use of the dolly zoom in a shot during Pixar’s “Ratatouille.”
How CalArts Came To Dominate Hollywood’s Animation Industry
“Vanity Fair” doesn’t write about animation often, but when they do, it’s memorable. Their new Hollywood issue has an excellent long read by Sam Kashner about the legendary CalArts animation program of the Seventies and Eighties.
“Triplets of Belleville” Director Sylvain Chomet Has Switched to Live-Action Filmmaking
First it was Brad Bird. Now Sylvain Chomet, the director of The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist, has switched over to …
‘LA Times’ Writer Stupidly Suggests That Hollywood is Making Too Many Animated Films
Well, it’s that time of year again. A couple animated films perform below-average at the box office and the mainstream media begins …
13 Animation Directors You Might Not Have Known Also Voiced Characters
Whether it be for lack of budget or a desire to take center stage, TV series creators lending their own voices to their animated …
Why Does Barack Obama Hate Brad Bird’s “The Incredibles”?
The We The People petition website is run by the White House and bills itself as a site that gives “all Americans a way to engage their …
How Old Were These Animation Directors When They Made Their First Film?
“Animation is a young man’s game,” Chuck Jones once said. There’s no question that animation is a labor-intensive art that requires mass …
Brad Bird’s Next Film Will Be Called “Tomorrowland”
A clearer picture of Brad Bird’s next live-action feature film project is starting to emerge. Described as a Close Encounters Of The …
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