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• 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

• "Character Animation Crash Course !" is a terrific how-to-toon book

  Jim Hill reviews Eric Goldberg's 25-years-in-the-making instructional manual, which shares this animation master's secrets on how to do great character animation Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, Brad Bird, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hollywood, DVD, Eric Goldberg, animation student, 2008, September, hardcover, pencil, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, character animation, hand-drawn animation, animation industry, high profile project, character , August, Comic-Con , Comic-Con International, key franchise, Woodbury University, RISD, SCAD, Ricardo Mestres, school, school supplies, pencils, erasers, lined paper, son, daughter, paperback, Barnes & Noble, art of books, hardcovers, conceptual paintings, preproduction art, would-be animator, medium, Character Animation Crash Course !, Silman-James Press, nuts-and-bolts, instructional book, craft, timing, how to, break down a scene, squash & stretch, squash, stretch, instructions, lessons, teacher, Genie, Aladdin, Care package, East High Wildcats, bookshelf, fledgling, foreword, professionals, beginners, Hercules, satyr, Phil, ASUS, industry vet, The Princess and the Frog, Donald Duck, Pink Panther, classic cartoon character, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, supervisor of animation, Pocahontas, co-director

• "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, banners, 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