Tag: Walt Disney
Daily News Bytes: ‘Robot Trains’ Heads to ME, Shanghai Film Fest 2018, Michael Rosen Opening Children’s Media Conference & More
Mondo TV and Discovery Bring ‘Robot Trains’ to Middle East
A three-year deal will set the 3D CG-animated action-adventure series on track in the region,...
28th Animafest Zagreb Lineup Announced
The 28th World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb has revealed a rich and diverse program of over 350 films for the 2018...
‘Lotte That Silhouette Girl’ Wins Best Short at AmDocs
This past weekend, a tribute to a pioneering figure of animation took the Best Short Film honors at the 2018 American Documentary Festival in...
Animated People: Dave Filoni, EP & Supervising Director, ‘Star Wars Rebels’
Dave Filoni has been a staple of the extended Star Wars animated universe since 2008. Writer Cameron Koller checked in with the executive producer...
Carl Barks “Family Portrait” Helps Heritage Animation Auction Clear $1.5M
A painting by one of the most famous Walt Disney Studios artists of all time helped Heritage Auctions' Dec. 9-10 Animation Art Auction in...
Bugs Bunny Designer Bob Givens Dies at 99
Robert “Bob” Givens, an animator whose long and celebrated career brought him through the gamut of 20th century animation milestones from Walt Disney’s Snow...
Women in Animation Awards Two Phyllis Craig Scholarships
Women in Animation announces that, for the first time, it has selected two recipients for the Phyllis Craig Scholarship: Heather Forlong and Esther Tejano....
Disney Axes Its ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ Movie
Disney is abandoning Gigantic, its upcoming feature adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk, according to Deadline.com. The project, which was slated for a Thanksgiving...
McDonald’s Aids Rick Sanchez’s Quest for Szechuan Sauce
It looks like fans of Adult Swim's Rick & Morty and/or "the year's most talked-about dipping sauce" will need to mark October 7th on...
Rediscovering Oswald
Like many in the animation industry, I was very aware that Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was an early and popular animated character that eventually...
Disney Legend X Atencio, Animator & Imagineer, Dies at 98
Official Disney fan club D23 has announced that former Imagineer, animator and Disney Legend Xavier Atencio died September 10 at the age of 98....
Daily News Bytes: Toy Story Land Unboxed, ‘Last Day of June’ Arrives, ‘Breadwinner’ at BFI & More
Toy Story Land to Open at Walt Disney World Resort in Summer 2018
Parks & Resorts Chairman Bob Chapek set the opening date for Disney’s...
Ginni Mack, Disney Ink & Paint Artist and Tinker Bell Model, Dies at 90
Ginni Mack, one of Walt Disney Studios' ground-breaking "Ink & Paint Girls" who moved up the department ranks and was immortalized as the original...
Tyrus Wong Documentary Premieres on PBS September 8
Tyrus, the first dedicated documentary on pioneering Chinese-American artist Tyrus Wong -- who made an indelible impact on the history of animation with his...
Director Kariem Saleh Talks About the Making of ‘Song of a Toad’
Director Kariem Saleh's inventive and poignant CG-animated short Song of a Toad was picked as the 2017 SIGGRAPH festival’s Best of Show. The talented...
Disney Legend, Imagineer Marty Sklar, Dies at 83
Martin A. “Marty” Sklar, a key creative force in Disney Parks who worked closely with Walt Disney, died at his home in the Hollywood...
D23: Disney & Pixar Reveal Film Slate Details
Filmmakers from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios convened at D23 Expo 2017 on Friday, revealing new details about their upcoming movie slates and...
Disney Legend Floyd Norman to Keynote SIGGRAPH ’17
World-leading computer graphics confab SIGGRAPH 2017 announces that Floyd Norman, the tenacious and trailblazing artist who bears the distinction of being the first African-American...
Fabulous ‘Fantasia’ Collection Features in Heritage Auction
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions’ July 1 animation sale will offer up one of the largest selections of artwork from Disney’s groundbreaking 1940 anthology feature Fantasia....
Disney Channels EMEA Unveils Slate Headed by ‘101 Dalmatian Street’
Disney Channels EMEA unveiled a first look at several new animated series — including 101 Dalmatian Street, Gigantosaurus, and Space Chickens In Space — as well...
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