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Blog Post: D23's "Treasures" exhibit offers a comprehensive look at the Walt Disney Company's past, present and future

Jim Hill

Last Monday afternoon, I was at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum and overheard a pretty funny exchange between two of the docents who'd been assigned to work the " D23 presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives " exhibit. Photo by Alice Hill It seems that one of these...

on27 Jul 2012
Blog Post: Walt Disney Animation Studios looks to really up its game with "Wreck-It Ralph"

Jim Hill

Every day for the past 30 years, Wreck-It Ralph has done the exact same thing. He first enters his home, (which is located inside of this cozy tree stump that is hidden away in the heart of this beautiful 8-bit pine forest) ... Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved ... only to then have...

on1 Sep 2011
Blog Post: "The Ballad of Nessie" : Why it took Disney such a long, long time to produce this short

Jim Hill

Did you hear that there was a Loch Ness Monster sighting yesterday in France? Well, not a sighting exactly. More like a screening. With Walt Disney Animation Studios ' latest short, " The Ballad of Nessie ," being shown to attendees of the 51 st Annecy International Animation Festival and...

on7 Jun 2011
Blog Post: Disney’s going Back to the Future with Winnie the Pooh

Jim Hill

Do you hear that loud beep-beep-beep noise coming from Burbank? That’s The Walt Disney Company backing up. Rapidly retreating from its earlier attempts to make the Winnie the Pooh characters seem hip, fashionable and contemporary. “Coming off of ‘ My Friends Tigger and Pooh ,’ we did a lot of research...

on3 Jun 2010
Blog Post: How do you carve “Snow White” ‘s Hag and Evil Queen out of clay?

Jim Hill

David Kracov remembers the night that he decided to quit working in animation. “A bunch of my friends took me out to Astroburger . And while we were eating, Brad Bird tried to talk me out of quitting. Brad said that he wanted me to come work with him on this new movie he wanted to make. Which was about...

on4 May 2010
Blog Post: Toon Thursday: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh

Jim Hill

It wasn’t exactly the news that animation fans were expecting. That Walt Disney Animation Studios would be following up “ The Princess and the Frog ” (i.e. The Company’s much anticipated return to hand-drawn animation) with a feature-length Winnie the Pooh project . Ah, but there was method to the Mouse...

on15 Oct 2009
Blog Post: “Waking Sleeping Beauty” takes a candid look at the Second Golden Age of Disney Feature Animation

Jim Hill

September is shaping up to be quite a month for Disney history buffs. First the D23 EXPO will give film fans the chance to check out two recent documentaries that relate to the Studio’s past: “ the boys: the sherman brothers’ story ” will be screened on Thursday, September 10 th at that event. Richard...

on21 Aug 2009

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Blog Post: D23's "Treasures" exhibit offers a comprehensive look at the Walt Disney Company's past, present and future

Blog Post: Walt Disney Animation Studios looks to really up its game with "Wreck-It Ralph"

Blog Post: "The Ballad of Nessie" : Why it took Disney such a long, long time to produce this short

Blog Post: Disney’s going Back to the Future with Winnie the Pooh

Blog Post: How do you carve “Snow White” ‘s Hag and Evil Queen out of clay?

Blog Post: Toon Thursday: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh

Blog Post: “Waking Sleeping Beauty” takes a candid look at the Second Golden Age of Disney Feature Animation