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From Hansel and Gretel to Baba Yaga, eight fairytales that Disney could successfully adapt with their return to the classical hand-drawn animation.
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 ...
Old-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 ...
It's time for Disney to go back to crafting 2-D animated features and there are 7 key reasons why a return to hand-drawn is needed!
Earlier today I caught a very entertaining panel at WonderCon in San Francisco moderated by Walt Disney Animation Studios visual effects supervisor Marlon West, who has spent the last few years ...
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.
A trove of rare and prominent artifacts from Disney that include Walt Disney’s personal Cinderella script, his hand-drawn Disneyland map, costumes and paintings will be auctioned off in June.
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.
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 … ...
Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back the art form to the ...
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 ...