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• “Disney Prep & Landing” : The making of a modern Christmas classic

  Jim Hill talks with Dorothy McKim, veteran WDAS producer, about how what-was-originally-supposed-to-have-been-a-theatrical-short grew into Disney’s first-ever holiday special for ABC Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:05 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: Disney, TV, ABC, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Store, WDAS, Prep and Landing, Christmas, 2009, Lanny, TV show, Prep & Landing, holiday season , holiday perennial, TV special, holiday story , How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, holiday special, Christmas special, Magee, Wayne, story, holiday, elves, Dorothy McKim, Disney Prep and Landing

• CTN X brings animation community together to network, help out their fellow artists

  Jim Hill talks up this weekend’s event at the Burbank Marriott. He also spotlights Tony Bancroft & Chad Frye’s efforts to help the Hodges family Read More... Posted Friday, November 20, 2009 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Ron Clements, John Musker, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Cinderella, WDI, Burbank, Walt Disney Imagineering, Eric Goldberg, animation student, 2009, Pete Docter, animators , animation community, animation industry, animation fan, Up, The Princess and the Frog, animation historian

• Suspended Animation provides online showcase for the non-Disney art of noted Disney artists

  Jim Hill chats with Tenny Chonin, the former head of Artist Development for Walt Disney Animation Studios, about the new web-based gallery that she launched last month Read More... Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, WDAS, Burbank, animation student, 2009, animated feature, animated short, animated features, paintings, artists , animators , Disney Studios , artistic development, artwork, animated film, animated films

• Monday Mouse Watch : “Carol” makes cash registers ring, while “Frog” ‘s financial future makes Disney animators jumpy

  Jim Hill looks past what “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” earned over its opening weekend to what this new Robert Zemeckis movie will gross over the next 3 to 5 years. He also talks about what impact “The Princess & the Frog” ticket sales may have on veteran animators’ careers Read More... Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 12:00 AM | 10 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, A Christmas Carol, CG, John Lasseter, Robert Zemeckis, Walt Disney Animation Studios, WDAS, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Burbank, Ed Catmull, ImageMoversDigital, box office, 2009, animated feature, ticket sales, opening weekend grosses, opening weekend, Disney Feature Animation, animated features, soundstage , hand-drawn animation, animators , CG feature, Disney Digital 3D, 2011, Warner Bros. , The Polar Express, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D , seasonal run , box office projections, box office estimates, The Princess and the Frog, hand-drawn, limited release, Charles Dickens, seasonal event, animated film, animated films, ImageMovers, hand-drawn feature, Winnie the Pooh

• Toon Thursday: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh

  Jim Hill talks about that new hand-drawn feature that Walt Disney Animation Studios currently has in development. Which will be done in the style of the "Pooh" featurettes of the 1960s & 1970s Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: Disney, theater, Pixar, Disney Consumer Products, CG, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Playhouse Disney, Disney Legend, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions, WDAS, featurette, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Las Vegas, 1977, D23, 2009, October, 1970s , TV show, 1966 , 1968, hand-drawn animation, home premiere, 2011, theatrical release, Meet the Robinsons, characters , 1960s, Development , chapter, relaunch, Licensing International Expo, DCP , source material , television show , The Princess and the Frog, D23 EXPO, hand-drawn, featurettes, TV series, animated film, reset button, hand-drawn feature, Steve Anderson, story supervisor, Don Hall, Winnie the Pooh, animation fans, old school, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, A. A. Milne, Japanese Bunraku puppeteering, technique, Japanese, storybook, stuffed animal, Bunraku, stuffed animals, Christopher Robin, The Book of Pooh, CG animated, watercolor, My Friends Tigger and Pooh, watercolor backgrounds, Hundred Acre Woods, whimsical, contemporary audiences, Darby, commercialized, Buster, feature-length project, Winnie the Pooh franchise, silly old bear, hand-drawn film, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, style, tone, Burny Mattinson, David Benedictus, Return to the Hundred Acre Woods, Dutton Juvenile, Dutton, original source material, The House at Pooh Corner, Eeyore, Expotition, North Pole, cutsie-pooh, cutsie-poo, expo, reset, Pooh products, juvenile, Winnie the Pooh movie, Pooh featurette, Pooh featurettes, theaters

• Disney’s “Prep & Landing” wows animation fans at the D23 EXPO

  Jim Hill reports in on how well this ABC holiday special was received when it was screened at the Anaheim Convention Center this past Saturday. He also talks about some of the high points of this new Walt Disney Animation Studios production Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: TV, ABC, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Animation Studios, ABC Studios, Toy Story, television, Prep and Landing, Christmas, 2009, television program, TV show, TV special, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, holiday special, Christmas special, A Tin Toy Christmas, television show , holiday elf, elf

• “Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen” offers a twisted take on Disney's Snow White

  Jim Hill reviews Serena Valentino’s first novel. Which tells the story of Walt Disney’s first feature-length animated cartoon from the Queen's POV Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, musical, Walt Disney, Disney Press, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Crone, Disney Princess, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Serena Valentino, Heart Box, 2009, Wicked Queen, August, Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, Wicked, Gregory Maguire, 1937, Magic Mirror, Huntsman

• Lasseter sprinkles Pixar dust over Disney Consumer Products, Imagineering

  Jim Hill talks about the impact that John Lasseter’s personal involvement has had on the Toy Story Definitive project as well as on DCA’s “Radiator Springs Racers” attraction Read More... Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: toys, Disney Consumer Products, John Lasseter, Cars, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Feld Entertainment, YouTube, Disney Parks & Resorts, WDI, Walt Disney Imagineering, DCA, 2009, Radiator Springs Racers, 2006, 2012, 2010, Toy Story 3, Woody , Toy Story characters, DCP , Buzz Lightyear, Radiator Springs, Lightning McQueen, Mater, toy line, Toy Story Definitive, Disney On Ice, Disney On Ice: Worlds of Fantasy, Feld, Ultimate Buzz Lightyear, Sheriff Woody, Disney Living, DisneyLiving, Thinkway Toys

• "Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" features seldom-seen artwork

  Jim Hill reviews Disney Press' newest picture book. Which is illustrated with some of the inspirational paintings that illustrator Gustaf Tenggren created for the Studio's first-ever feature-length animated cartoon Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, Walt Disney, Disney Press, Peter Pan, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney's Cinderella, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, concept art, Cynthia Rylant, Animation Research Library, ARL, 2719 Hyperion, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Blu-ray, 2009, October, animated feature, Pinocchio, picture book, Disney Studios , 1936, 1950, conceptual paintings, conceptual painting, Snow White, Ridley Pearson, Disney Book Group, Dave Barry, Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Walt Disney's Peter Pan, Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Gustaf Tenggren, 1953, diamond edition

• Toon Tuesday: Glen Keane goes back to the drawing board

  Jim Hill shares some shots from Comic-Con. Where this master animator revealed that he had just ended a six month sabbatical and was now returning to work at Walt Disney Animation Studios Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, convention, CG, Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes , Beauty and the Beast, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Tarzan, drawing class, WDAS, Burbank, Glen Keane, Rapunzel, Eric Goldberg, Tom Sito, panel discussion, 2009, animated feature, character animation, Disney Feature Animation, panel, animated features, drawings , animation fan, character , CG feature, train, 2010, Don Hahn , Walt Stanchfield, drawing classes, San Diego Convention Center , San Diego, convention center , Comic-Con , Comic-Con International, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Walt Stanchfield lectures, stylization, Ruben Procopio

• Will showing selected scenes from “The Princess and the Frog” finally silence this film’s critics?

  Jim Hill writes about the new tack that Walt Disney Animation Studios is taking with the promotion of its new hand-drawn animated feature. Which involves screening footage from “The Princess and the Frog” at events that will be attended by African-American opinion makers Read More... Posted Monday, August 03, 2009 12:00 AM | 10 Comments Filed under: Disney, Walt Disney Pictures, Ron Clements, John Musker, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, New York City, Los Angeles, NYC, LA, film, movie, 2009, animated feature, November, Tampa, film festival, New York, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog, The Little Mermaid, The Great Mouse Detective

• Is Disney / Pixar finally getting serious about “Monsters, Inc. 2.” And … “The Tiger King” ?!

  Jim Hill’s back with even more domain names that The Walt Disney Company has registered over the past few weeks Read More... Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, Broadway, Jerry Bruckheimer, The Lion King, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Monsters Inc., Blu-ray, DVD, California, Broadway musical, 2009, Broadway production, Mary Poppins, domain name , domain names, Snow White, Beverly

• In just one week, the Con is on !

  Jim Hill reviews the programming for Comic-Con 2008 and then points out some panels & signings that Disneyana fans should probably seek out while they're down in San Diego Read More... Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: Disney, TV, Pixar, ABC, Disney Channel, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, television, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Bolt, film, movie, Eric Goldberg, 2008, 2009, Disney / Pixar, TV show, feature film , Chris Sanders, The Little Mermaid -- Ariel's Beginning, comic book, comic books , ABC reality series, Up, Prince of Persia