Walt Disney in 1937 Phil Young is an animator, artist and teacher. He worked at the Disney studio for 25 years, often working with some...

Outnumbered by Tom Bancroft Tom Bancroft is a Disney animator with many, many film credits to his name. His career highlights include ...

Above is a wonderful short animated film titled Dumb Ways to Die . It boasts a catchy tune, charming character design, cute animation and...

Cuthbert was bored - written and illustrated by Uli Meyer Uli Meyer is an animator, director, designer and now children's book aut...

In animation, takes get all the love; those big, broad, comedic reactions that Tex Avery mastered and the rest of us try to emulate.  St...

Richard Keith Wolff has worked in the camera department on many animated commercials, feature films and TV series, including The Wind in T...

My Daughter, last Father's Day Last year, I spent Father's Day in the Intensive Care Unit at the Atlantic City Trauma Center.  N...

Studio One's Oddbods James "JC" Chiang is a hugely talented animator with years of experience in the animation industry. ...

My father is 80 years old this year. He doesn't look it. He still draws every day, working as passionately as ever on animation he d...

Imagine Bambi running through the forest fire screaming  "AAH!   AHHHH!   Woah-oah!!!  AHHH!".  That's exactly how it would go...

18 years ago today was the opening night of Pocahontas . It was premiered on 10 June 1995 on the great lawn in Central Park, projected on...

In a recent post, I blamed the demise of 2D animated features on market saturation; there were just too many features out there.  But in CG...

I know you're all aching to know how the garden tower is progressing after a month, so I have taken a few photos. Left, the tower on ...

"Betty Boop" drops in on producer Steve Leiva Twenty years ago, I was directing the ill-fated   Betty Boop Movie for Richard ...

Above is a very short and very funny video by Giovanni Braggio, revealing the hidden secrets of computer animation. How many times has so...

During pre-production on Looney Tunes: Back in Action , I met with director Joe Dante  about the  animation director's position.  While ...

www.peopleperhour.com - insert your logo here Ten years ago, when I was working on Robots at Blue Sky Studios, animation boss and all-...

Micro Mahem is a fun little short from Stoopid Buddy Studios , the Burbank, California  based stop-motion animation studio that brought ...

Even as Maya 2014 is launched, I know in advance it's not going to fix the things that drive me mad about this piece of software that...

I've had this idea for about eighteen years now.  I have no way of making it happen, but I do have an outlet to share the idea with y...

The growing and rather depressing trend for jobs to leave London's Soho and head for Canada seems to be picking up pace. Framestore, ...

Before Dan Scanlon directed Monsters University , he did a mockumentary called Tracy.   He talked to FLIP about it back in 2008 , when it w...

Jim Van Der Keyl is a caricaturist and animator who has worked on many of the biggest animated hits from DreamWorks in recent years, inc...

Back in 1989 I spent a summer working at the newly built Disney MGM studios theme park in Orlando, Florida, which among other rides featu...

Yesterday's post on studio space seemed to resonate with readers.  FLIP heard from a couple of art department veterans.   Fred C...