To have been a Disney fan during the 1970’s was truly to believe in magic, sappy as that sounds. In high school my peers mocked me for g...

T. Dan Hofstedt - animation supremo My old friend and former kumrad at Disney animation, T Dan Hofsted, recently posted at Facebook a r...

The best thing about working on an animated film is, as everyone knows, the project itself. It's going to be awesome, you're goin...

Every business has its bean counters.  In the bean business, they have them in spades.  A team of bean counters determines exactly how ma...

As a CalArts student in the early '80's, I had the opportunity to meet many people who worked for Walt Disne...

Sad news.  Diane Disney, Walt's daughter, died today at the age of 79.   I had the opportunity to meet Diane in 1984, as a Cal Arts...

If you grew up loving Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, or The Pink Panther, you may find this new documentary very interesting...

Mickey - as you have never seen him before. Escape From Tomorrow is a micro budget indie horror flick filmed without permission, using ...

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...

Last week I went to Disneyland. I took two nieces, aged seven and four years old respectively, for cover, just in case anyone wondered wh...

Animation dailies - how it used to be Once upon a time animation "sweatbox" was actually a sweaty room below stairs at the Di...

Yesterday, I read the news about the Disney layoffs on Facebook.  With so many industry friends, industry news hits there hours before bl...

In the early days of Disney Studios, the cramped room where Walt critiqued his crew's pencil tests was aptly dubbed "The Sweatb...

Was I drugged?  Did I really see that, or was that a weird dream?  Someone took the iconic Mickey Mouse and made a far out looking short - w...

The Princess and the Frog - Disney's last 2D feature According to an article in yesterday's Guardian , 2D animation is officiall...

The Noble Approach - Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design Animation designer and director Tod Polson has been working for over...

Those were the words of Ward Kimball , spoken in 1980 to a small theater full of Cal Arts students.  He might as well have been preaching at...