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The Imagineering Story: Disney's WED gets the Iwerks treatment in 2016 22 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
Have a look at this trailer, premiered at the recent D23 event and written up in Los Angeles Magazine by Chris Nichols: It's being produced by a filmmaker with sterling credentials for the job, docum...
Snippets of "Frozen" 3 Jul 2013 | 05:39 am
I stumbled upon this today. I know little about Frozen apart from some of the people working on it, but these brief cuts suggest it's got more of the typically smooth and expressive animation-and very...
Chuck talk/Chuck Drawings 27 Jun 2013 | 04:36 am
This must be from "The White Seal". Tonight I'm participating in a swell shindig down in Costa Mesa, "The Blackwing Experience", arranged by Palomino, the people who've brought back the title charact...
Bob Clampett, 100 and counting 14 May 2013 | 12:30 am
I was just visiting one of the most important animation blogs on the 'net-Michael Barrier's, to catch up, and saw he'd done a lovely post marking the 100th birthday of Bob Clampett, on May 8th. Good g...
Adam and Dog: The ineffable beauty of drawn animation 21 Feb 2013 | 07:51 am
Drawings of Dog by Minkyu Lee. Drawing of Adam by Minkyu Lee. in·ef·fa·ble /ɪnˈɛf ə bəl/ Show Spelleadjective 1. incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy....
Para-nimation 15 Aug 2012 | 12:34 am
A model of the title character's house from "ParaNorman" on display at an Arclight theater. There's a nice article about Laika in the New York Times today. While not tremendously in-depth, it's a nea...
"Art of Brave" Book Signing and Talk at Gallery Nucleus This Saturday 22 Jun 2012 | 04:07 am
This Saturday, June 23, Gallery Nucleus is hosting an "Art of Brave" panel. Present, signing and speaking-and in the case of the two esteemed Pixar artists, showing-will be myself, story artist Emma ...
The New York Times on the design of Brave's Merida 21 Jun 2012 | 08:15 am
Matt Nolte's early sketch of Elinor tangling with Merida's unruly mane. c. Disney/Pixar On June 15th the New York Times ran a very nice piece dealing with the design development of Merida, the he...
Trailer: "Longway North", aka "Tout en Haut du Monde" 15 Mar 2012 | 10:24 am
At lunch today with several of my story colleagues the talk turned to films as yet unreleased, those in different styles and with potential we find exciting and inspiring-in other words, the usual ban...
On Story: Life is in the details 10 Mar 2012 | 12:59 pm
If anything from my experience of the last 15 years or so has made itself clear to me as a story truism, it's that the importance of the smallest details matter. The difference between a dull scene o...
