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• Toon Thursday: GAME OVER for TRON's first director

  Jim Hill's back with even more news about this eagerly awaited sequel. Including who's replaced Steve Lisberger as the new creative lead on the "TR2N" project Read More... Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:00 AM | 20 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions, Toy Story, film, movie, Disney / Pixar, 2010, Toy Story 3, motion picture, TR2N, Tron , 1982, Tron 2, Steve Lisberger, Tron Sequel

• "The Pixar Touch" shares seldom-told tales about the early days of this animation studio

  Jim Hill talks with author David A. Price about how he went about writing this unauthorized history of Pixar Animation Studios Read More... Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: book, movies, Pixar, John Lasseter, Leslie Iwerks, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, The Pixar Story, To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Karen Paik, Steve Jobs, movie, animated feature, 1980s, Chronicle Books, coffee table book, Lucasfilm, short, Tin Toy, shorts, David A Price, SEC, The Pixar Touch : The Making of a Company, Microsoft, Hallmark, Knopf, authorized history, Alvy Ray Smith, revisionist history, 1985, 1986, Shogakukan, Pixar archives, Pixar saga, Japanese legend, Chinese legend, Hollywood gossip

• "The Art of Cars" rolls into LA's Petersen Automotive Museum this Saturday

  Pixar & car culture fans rejoice ! That Emeryville-based animation studio & LA's preeminent auto museum are teaming up to mount an exhibition that celebrates the artistry of this 2006 John Lasseter film Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: Pixar, CG, John Lasseter, Cars, Pixar Animation Studios, Los Angeles, LA, movie, animated feature, CG feature, 2006, Disney Pixar

• Toon Tuesday: Disney's "The Aristocats" ... The Animated Series ?!

  Jim Hill takes a look at a show that was proposed for the Disney Channel back in 2003. One that would have ditched Duchess & O'Malley and made Marie, Berlioz & Toulouse teenagers Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:00 AM | 24 Comments Filed under: theme park, Pixar, Walt Disney, Disney Channel, John Lasseter, Michael Eisner, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Toon Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions, The Walt Disney Company, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Glen Hanson, The Aristocats, Marie, Disney Feature Animation Florida, teen, teenager, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, WDSHE, DVD, movie, Mouse, animated feature, franchise, merch, Walt Disney Feature Animation, 2003, merchandise , animated series , The Aristocats: Special Edition, 1970 , single disc edition, Duchess, Thomas O'Malley , alley cat , Toulouse, Berlioz, bonus material , Richard M Sherman, Robert B Sherman, Zzzz, Sherman Brothers , DisneyToon Studios , The Aristocats 2, home premiere, Disney’s Aristocats: The Animated Series , O'Malley , teenagers, Delancey, Justin Timberlake , Usher, Street Cats , classic Disney characters , Flash, unnecessary sequel business, unnecessary sequel, unnecessary sequels, The Aristocats II , Chicken Little 2, Meet the Robinsons 2, Aristocats: The Animated Series , Frank Wells building, Dick Sherman , Maurice Chevalier

• Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

  Jim Hill points out the parallels between what WDAS's next release is now going through and "Beauty & the Beast" & "The Lion King" 's troubled productions Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:00 AM | 18 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, DreamWorks, computer animation, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures, Beauty & the Beast, John Musker, Ratatouille, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, DreamWorks Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Toy Story, WDAS, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, WDI, Ed Catmull, Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Studios, Bolt, Academy Award, film, movie, 2008, animated feature, Richard Purdum , Cranium Command, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, award, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, The Emperor's New Groove, Kingdom of the Sun, Kiskaloo, blind men and the elephant, Indian fable, pre-release image, teaser poster, November 2008, Bolt the dog, Mittens the cat, Rhino the hamster, Chris Williams, American Dog, Chris Sanders, quirkiness, Jan Pinkava, George Scribner, Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers, S Gross, lemons into lemonade, November 28

• The Pixar TV special you never got to see, "A Tin Toy Christmas"

  Jim Hill shares what he's learned about this abandoned project. Which (in a roundabout way) provided the inspiration for Pixar Animation Studios' first feature-length production, "Toy Story" Read More... Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Disney Press, Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Jack Skellington, movie, Walt Disney Feature Animation, SIGGRAPH, short, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Luxo Jr, Red's Dream, Tin Toy, A Tin Toy Christmas, Joe Ranft, Peter Schneider, Pixar Image Computer, Batman

• Monday Mouse Watch: Ariel meets her maker? Has Tinker Bell lost her voice?

  Jim Hill shares a few fun Disney-related items that have popped up in his inbox over the past few days. Including where you can find an early reference to Rapunzel in "Enchanted" Read More... Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 12:00 AM | 12 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, musical, John Lasseter, Disney Theatrical, Disney Fairies, The Tinker Bell Movie, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Kevin Lima, Glen Keane, Rapunzel, stagehands union, movie, stagehands, Disney in-joke

• A special "Where's WALL-E" edition of Why For?

  Jim Hill's back with even more answers to your Disney-related questions. This time around, Jim tries to put together a definitive list of where the in-jokes & self references in Pixar's feature films & shorts are located Read More... Posted Sunday, December 09, 2007 12:00 AM | 26 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Pixar, CG, John Lasseter, Ratatouille, Brad Bird, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., DVD, film, movie, Disney / Pixar, animated feature, The Adventures of Andre & Wally B, animated short, short, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Your Friend the Rat, Plan B, Luxo Jr, Red's Dream, For the Birds, Boundin', Lifted, Jack-Jack Attack, Geri's Game

• "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades

  Jim Hill reviews Karen Paik's inspired (more importantly, inspiring) new history of Pixar Animation Studios. Which offers a lot of insight about how John Lasseter became the Big Kahuna of the CG world Read More... Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, movies, Pixar, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, John Musker, Cars, Ratatouille, Leslie Iwerks, Brad Bird, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Ron Miller, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, WDAS, featurette, Monsters Inc., The Pixar Story, To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Karen Paik, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney Studios, film, movie, Mouse, Disney / Pixar, 2007, Tis the season, feature film , Chronicle Books, The Art of Animation, Bob Thomas, cartoons, epiphany, coffee table book, hardcover, church, pew, gourd, sermon, pencil, pencil time, award, The Headless Horseman, The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr Toad, station wagon, Casper the Friendly Ghost, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, character animation, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, calcified, middle management, The Fox and the Hound, old guard, Tom Wilhite, Maurice Sendak, picture book, Where the Wild Things Are, Thomas M Disch, The Brave Little Toaster, Marin, Lucasfilm, The Adventures of Andre & Wally B, SIGGRAPH, animated short, short, character comedy, cutting-edge technology, money pit, Jane Eisner, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, human costs, keyboard, repetitive-stress injury, The Art of Ratatouille, aspiring animator, holiday shopping list