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Blog Post: "I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history"

Jim Hill

"It was 20 years ago today ..." Well, it was tomorrow actually. August 2, 1988 to be precise. That was the date when an incomplete version of " Tin Toy " first screened at SIGGRAPH and truly wowed the crowd in Atlanta. Given the overwhelmingly positive response that this John Lasseter film received ...

on31 Jul 2008
Blog Post: Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

Jim Hill

How many of you know the story of the blind men and the elephant ? I bring up this ancient Indian fable because ... Well ... I have to admit that I was highly amused by what happened last Wednesday. When the on-line animation community went completely bananas over those "Bolt" pre-release images . Copyright...

on1 Jan 2008
Blog Post: Toon Tuesday: The story behind "The Pixar Story"

Jim Hill

It's going to seem like "Old Home Week" at Hollywood's Egyptian Theater tonight. What with acclaimed filmmaker Leslie Iwerks sharing the stage with industry legend Roy E. Disney during the Q & A portion of tonight's screening of " The Pixar Story " at the American Cinematheque . You see, if it hadn...

on10 Dec 2007
Blog Post: "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades

Jim Hill

There's this genuinely eerie passage in Karen Paik 's " To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios " ( Chronicle Books , November 2007), which talks about how a single book basically changed the course of John Lasseter 's life. In ninth grade, Lasseter was searching the art section...

on28 Nov 2007

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Blog Post: "I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history"

Blog Post: Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

Blog Post: Toon Tuesday: The story behind "The Pixar Story"

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