Tag: The Little Mermaid
An Animated Conversation with Bill Plympton
In 1960, when Bill Plympton was 14, he mailed some cartoons he'd drawn to Disney in the hope of being hired. Not surprisingly, Disney...
Line-up Announced for Animex Festival 2014
Animation exec Max Howard and top game designer Georg Baker are among the speakers now set for the 2014 edition of the Animex international...
New Info Arrives on Musker/Clements’ ‘Moana’
Now that Disney is riding high on the global success of Frozen (box office cume to date: $262. 4), we got word that the...
‘Aria for a Cow’ Film Begins Production
A new animated short, titled Aria for a Cow and based on a song of the same name by the award-winning duo Howard Ashman...
Universum Buzzes with Studio 100’s ‘Maya the Bee’
Studio 100 Media GmbH has signed a major deal with Universum Film GmbH to distribute several of the company's film projects into the German-speaking...
Disney Offers Little Mermaid Interactive in Theaters
Kids who really want to be part of Disney's The Little Mermaid's world, will be able to check out a new interactive experience when...
Books We Love – Issue #233
Directing for Animation: Everything You Didn't Learn in Art School
By Tony Bancroft
Imagine taking a one-on-one class with one of the best-liked and most talented...
From Rim to Rim
In today's global marketplace it is not uncommon of for a tentpole movie to earn the majority of its box office take overseas. In...
SIGGRAPH Animation Keynote Is Available Online
This week's buzz-worthy CG animation Confab SIGGRAPH has released the video of its opening day keynote, which was presented in collaboration with the Academy...
Allers’ Animated ‘Prophet’ Pic Draws Top Talent
Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, John Krasinski, Frank Langella, Alfred Molina and Quvenzhané Wallis have joined the voice cast of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, the...
Disney Publicist Denise Greenawalt Dies at 52
We were saddened by the recent death of longtime Disney publicity exec Denise Greenawalt who passed away in her sleep following a long illness...
Sherman, Menken Team Up for ‘Disney Songbook’
A special musical treat is in store for attendees of this year's D23 Expo—the premiere Disney fan event—as two celebrated songwriters and composers take...
Lee’s ‘Adam and Dog’ Shines During Award Season
Minkyu Lee discusses his Annie-winning, Oscar-nominated, Genesis-themed short Adam and Dog.
Companionship between humans and animals is an oft-explored concept in the film world, no...
Yvette Kaplan Looks Back at ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to come face to face one of the many, many people I knew only over the telephone,...
Jennifer Lee to Co-Direct Disney’s ‘Frozen’
Jennifer Lee will co-direct Disney’s 2013 animated feature Frozen with Chris Buck, the studio announced today. Billed as Disney’s 53rd full-length animated feature, Frozen...
Anima Vitae Strengthens Ties to Asia and Hollywood
Anima Vitae, the Finnish animation studio behind the movie Niko 2 – Little Brother, Big Trouble, The Flight Before Christmas and The Magic Crystals...
John and Ron Mention ‘The Unmentionable’
This past weekend I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Disney Animation’s legendary “John and Ron”—John Musker and Ron Clements—at a Sherlock Holmes symposium...
Academy Awakens ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in 70 MM
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 1959 Disney classic Sleeping Beauty as part of its "The Last 70mm Film Festival"...
John Coates and the American Invasion
Twenty-twelve is shaping up to be such a year of plenty for high-profile animated features—originals, adaptations and franchise sequels—that it is starting to remind...
Disney’s Naughty Bits, Real and Imagined
Just when you start to think the old rumors about hidden dirty jokes in Disney animated features have died down, they get passed on...
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