Posted by: cpocalyk on: February 23, 2010
The third film produced by Walt Disney and his studio, Fantasia was completely different in terms of style: it was simply animation set to famous classical music pieces with no dialogue provided except by the host of the film, Deems Taylor, who just introduces and sets up the music and the animation that’s set to [...]
Posted by: cpocalyk on: February 15, 2010
I’ll start this out on a personal note: as I’ve gotten older, I’ve found that legendary cartoon artist and animator Chuck Jones has become a huge inspiration for me. For some reason, everything about his style is instantly appealing; the way his characters are gestured and move, the facial expressions, and most importantly, the comedic [...]
Posted by: cpocalyk on: February 8, 2010
From around 1905 until around 1914, Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland ran weekly in both the New York Herald and New York American newspapers. The underlying story was about a young boy named Nemo who would weekly venture through a dream, only at the last panel to wake up in or near [...]
Posted by: cpocalyk on: February 1, 2010
What can honestly be said about Don Bluth, a former animator for Disney as well as the creator of a few animated films himself? During the 1980′s after his departure from Disney’s animation studio, Bluth went on to make movies such as An American Tale, The Land Before Time, and what many consider to be [...]
