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Blog Post: Toon Thursday: How Disney's "Mickey and the Beanstalk" went from being a full length film to an animated featurette

Jim Hill

Nancy and I were just watching "The Purdum Reel." Which is this Special Feature on the Blu-ray version of the Diamond Edition of Disney's " Beauty and the Beast ." Which hits store shelves yesterday. Concept art from the Richard Purdum version of "Beauty and the Beast."...

on7 Oct 2010
Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

Jim Hill

Good God. Are we really already be up to Volume 9 in the “Walt’s People” series? I can recall when Disney Historian Didier Ghez initially proposed these books (which – if I’m remembering correctly – was sometime back during the Pleistocene Epoch) that would collect & then reprint the very best Mouse...

on5 May 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: Why For did Disney wind up giving Maleficent the bird

Jim Hill

Trina P. wrote in to say: Thanks for sharing those pictures from the Tim Burton exhibition at the MoMA . I’m a huge Burton fan and had wanted to get down to NYC while that exhibit was there, but never found the time. I noticed that you had a lot of pictures from Tim Burton movies that never got made...

on30 Apr 2010
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: "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: Toon Thursday: How Disney's "Mickey and the Beanstalk" went from being a full length film to an animated featurette

Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

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

Blog Post: Why For did Disney wind up giving Maleficent the bird

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

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