Mickey Mouse is an cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
Feature animation flipped on its tail three decades ago, when Disney’s The Little Mermaid premiered and ushered in a “second golden age.” Today, the new Walt Disney Signature Edition of The Little Mermaid appears in stores and online, and whether seeing for the first or 400th time, it never ceases to wield its gentle power, […]
“Destiny is a book you write yourself.” This is a major theme in The Dragon Prince, the fantasy-adventure series streaming on Netflix. In real life, the theme happened to apply to the show’s creators, Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond. They met while working at Riot Games, makers of the multiplayer League of Legends. Ehasz had […]
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature went to Sony’s Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse. Directors Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, and Bob Persichetti, and producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller accepted the award from John Legend and Michelle Yeoh (video below). The Academy Award for Best Animated Short went to Bao. Director Domee She and producer […]
Spider-Man: Into The Spidereverse, swings onto a 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, a Blu-ray Combo Pack, and a standard def DVD on March 19th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. From Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the uniquely creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, the film offers a fresh vision of the […]
Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb were two of hundreds of Pixar creators who worked on the studio’s award-winning, Inside Out. Little did they know at the time that 5+ years later they would be Oscar nominees – Shi as director and Neiman-Cobb as producer – for Bao, Pixar’s latest quirky, thought-provoking animated short. Domee Shi: […]
This is a show that, once you begin watching it, you can become hooked, and you don’t want to let go of it. It’s a magical world of elves and dragons and knights and wizards—and a glow toad named “Bait.” It’s also a world of diversity, a mix of age, color, gender, and handicapped characters […]
Here it is, the first look at Disney’s Frozen 2 – certainly one of the most anticipated animated films of the year. Directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, and producer Peter Del Vecho return – as do the voices of Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad, and songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert […]
DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon saga will do down in animation history as one of the most beloved and successful franchises of all time. Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the 2010 original, and then went solo for 2014’s “Dragon 2”, is back at the helm for the finale of the trilogy – How to Train […]
The husband-wife duo of David Fine and Alison Snowden won an Oscar for their animated short, “Bob’s Birthday” in 1995. The Canadian couple is in contention for a second this year with the creature comedy, Animal Behaviour. Jackson Murphy: Was it a different experience finding out the news this time? Alison Snowden: It was a […]
In the first two minutes of Anime-Gataris (literally “Talking about Anime,” 2017), the filmmakers offer a hilarious send-up of Gundam, Sailor Moon and the component series of Robotech. If the rest of the show never quite meets that admittedly impressive bar, it’s still very silly, very meta and a great big inside joke for anime […]
