According to former Disney animator Tom Bancroft on Twitter, Disney gutted their hand-drawn animation division this afternoon, and laid off nine veteran animators, including some of the studio’s ...

Disney has explored sibling relationships with Anna and Elsa, successfully so, but Hansel and Gretel could provide a way to delve into the bond between brother and sister.Similarly, the hand-drawn ...

Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, ... Walt Disney rescues hand-drawn animation. By Reuters. August 9, 2007 9:10 PM UTC Updated February 12, 2007 ...

Iger revealed today that the Walt Disney Company - including Pixar, Disney Animation, and Disney Toons - is currently not in development on any hand-drawn feature films. That's awfully ...

Walt Disney’s animated characters are no strangers to video games, but until this year the company needed a genie to realize its desire for better video animation. This year, coinciding with the ...

O ld-school Disney fans were saddened last week when, at a shareholder’s meeting for the company, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the hand-drawn 2-D animation for which the studio has long been ...

In other words, as much as Disney (as well as DreamWorks) insist audiences want 3D animation, the audience seems just as interested in hand-drawn and a return to that could still win folks over.

Following suit, Van Eaton Galleries is selling the original hand-drawn map of Disneyland, co-created in 1953 by Walt Disney himself. The auction will take place June 25. Known as one of the most ...

The Princess and the Frog is the first Disney movie since 2004 that is completely hand drawn and not computer animated, and if the hype continues to build as much as it has so far, it's likely to ...

In the 1960s, Walt Disney joked that one day he'd replace his elite corps of animators, known as the "Nine Old Men," and their slow, expensive way of making hand-drawn movies, with Audio ...

And you thought park tickets were expensive. A one-of-kind map of Disneyland, hand-drawn by Walt Disney himself, sold at auction for a record amount, auctioneers Van Eaton Galleries said Sunday.