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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
He Had A Cow, Man...! R.I.P. Sam Simon
Read the article from ANIMATION Magazine HERE .
Thursday, September 5, 2013
‘Paperman’ Director John Kahrs Departs from Disney
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| Model Sheet for "Meg" from 'Paperman' |
The director of Disney's 2012 Academy-Award-Winning Short "Paperman", John Kahrs
has parted ways with the studio, according to Animation Magazine.
Read the entire article HERE .
Monday, July 22, 2013
The Simpsons/FAMILY GUY Crossover...? "The FORCE" is Strong in DANVILLE...?
For REAL...?
An unimaginable event is occurring. Actually, TWO unbelievable crossovers are happening. BOTH have a connection to DAN POVENMIRE, one of the co-creators of Disney's PHINEAS & FERB.
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| Simpsons/Griffins slated for 'Duel to the Death' on "Phineas & Ferb"...? |
In a never-to-be-fathomed happening, two of FOX Television Animation's biggest, longest-running, and most-popular shows are having an epic cross-over: "FAMILY GUY" stars The Griffin Family will visit Springfield to meet "The Simpsons".
Plus, an ALSO barely-imagined merging will take place: "PHINEAS & FERB" will join with "The Force" in a STAR WARS cross-over. (If I were still a 20-year-old fanboy, my head would explode!)
Ironically, DAN POVENMIRE once worked on BOTH "The Simpsons" AND "FAMILY GUY"...!
Read the PHINEAS and FERB article over at Animation Magazine , and about the GRIFFINS/SIMPSONS 'Battle Royale'.
WOW.
Read the PHINEAS and FERB article over at Animation Magazine , and about the GRIFFINS/SIMPSONS 'Battle Royale'.
WOW.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Stop-Motion Pioneer Ray Harryhausen, Sadly, Stops Moving
I remember how I was in awe of his process, even as a small child. NO sci-fi or fantasy movie would have been the same without his prehistoric creatures and spooky skeletons.
Read the full article from Animation Magazine HERE.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
...And ALSo Goodbye to DISNEY Employees...!
The Walt Disney Company announced the layoffs of around 150 employees yesterday, with "fortunately" only a small number coming from the Animation division.
Read the full article HERE .
Sunday, February 17, 2013
"Underdog" Co-Creator BIGGERS Dies
William Watts Biggers, the co-creator of the popular animated series Underdog died at 85 of undisclosed causes last Sunday. Biggers, who was also a novelist, was part of the influential team that created the popular toon while working for New York City advertising firm Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. The team came up with the toon while on an assignment for General Mills to come up with vehicles to promote breakfast cereals.
Read the entire story HERE .
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Disney Songwriter Robert Sherman Dies
From Animation Magazine:
Prolific Disney songwriter Robert Sherman, who with his brother Richard penned numerous tunes in their heyday for Disney movies and cartoons, has passed away at age 86. Notable compositions include music from "Mary Poppins" such as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Spoonful of Sugar, and the iconic theme "It's a Small World, After All" from the attraction.
Read the full story HERE .
Prolific Disney songwriter Robert Sherman, who with his brother Richard penned numerous tunes in their heyday for Disney movies and cartoons, has passed away at age 86. Notable compositions include music from "Mary Poppins" such as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Spoonful of Sugar, and the iconic theme "It's a Small World, After All" from the attraction.
Read the full story HERE .
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Disney Legend, Bill Justice, Dies at 97
Read the entire article HERE.
Justice worked for Disney for years, and drew everything from character designs to storyboards and even to designing character costumes for the Parks, an example pictured below:
Saturday, January 8, 2011
NEW "Peanuts" Animation Coming
From Animation Magazine:
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang are coming back to animation in Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, an original DVD feature set to be released March 29.
Read entire post HERE.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang are coming back to animation in Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, an original DVD feature set to be released March 29.
Read entire post HERE.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Ilene Woods, Voice of Disney’s Cinderella, Dies
Animation Magazine reports of the passing of the woman who provided the voice of the title character in Walt Disney's Cinderella.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Art Clokey, Creator of "Gumby", Dies
Gumby Creator Art Clokey Dies
Monday, January 11, 2010By: Thomas J. Mclean
Art Clokey, who turned a small clay figurine named Gumby into a worldwide sensation, died Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif., at the age of 88.
Clokey and his first wife, Ruth, created Gumby and his orange horse pal Pokey in the 1950s shortly after Clokey had finished film school at USC. The idea began with an abstract claymation short called Gumbasia — a sort of parody of Disney’s Fantasia —that movie producer Sam Engel encouraged Clokey to develop by adding figures.
Monday, January 11, 2010By: Thomas J. Mclean
Art Clokey, who turned a small clay figurine named Gumby into a worldwide sensation, died Friday at his home in Los Osos, Calif., at the age of 88.
Clokey and his first wife, Ruth, created Gumby and his orange horse pal Pokey in the 1950s shortly after Clokey had finished film school at USC. The idea began with an abstract claymation short called Gumbasia — a sort of parody of Disney’s Fantasia —that movie producer Sam Engel encouraged Clokey to develop by adding figures.
Read the entire article by clicking on the title of this post.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
D23: Lasseter Promises More Hand-drawn Animation
From Animation Magazine.net:
Monday, September 14, 2009By: Thomas J. Mclean
PIXAR and Disney animation chief John Lasseter has built the studio’s sterling reputation on cutting-edge CG animation, but says Disney fans can expect to see a lot more hand-drawn animation in the future.
Speaking at Disney’s D23 fan expo in Anaheim, Lasseter gave fans a peek at the upcoming hand-drawn film The Princess and the Frog, and a new Winnie the Pooh feature due out in 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He said that studios had made a mistake in focusing solely on CG animation.
“I never quite understood why the studios thought people wouldn’t want to watch it,” Lasseter said, according to a Reuters report. “What audiences didn’t want was bad movies.”
Speaking to press, Lasseter denied there was any truth to the rumor that Pixar was planning an Ant-Man movie as part of Disney’s recently announced plans to buy Marvel Entertainment.
He also announced some casting news for the upcoming Toy Story 3, confirming that John Morris will return as the voice of Andy. Jeff Garliln, Bonnie Hunt, Timothy Dalton and Whoopi Goldberg also will play voices in the film.
In other D23 news, Disney announced plans to revamp the Star Tours attraction to be a 3-D experience, opening in 2011. The company also announced plans to vastly expand its Fantasyland attraction at Walt Disney World, opening in 2012.
Monday, September 14, 2009By: Thomas J. Mclean
PIXAR and Disney animation chief John Lasseter has built the studio’s sterling reputation on cutting-edge CG animation, but says Disney fans can expect to see a lot more hand-drawn animation in the future.
Speaking at Disney’s D23 fan expo in Anaheim, Lasseter gave fans a peek at the upcoming hand-drawn film The Princess and the Frog, and a new Winnie the Pooh feature due out in 2011, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He said that studios had made a mistake in focusing solely on CG animation.
“I never quite understood why the studios thought people wouldn’t want to watch it,” Lasseter said, according to a Reuters report. “What audiences didn’t want was bad movies.”
Speaking to press, Lasseter denied there was any truth to the rumor that Pixar was planning an Ant-Man movie as part of Disney’s recently announced plans to buy Marvel Entertainment.
He also announced some casting news for the upcoming Toy Story 3, confirming that John Morris will return as the voice of Andy. Jeff Garliln, Bonnie Hunt, Timothy Dalton and Whoopi Goldberg also will play voices in the film.
In other D23 news, Disney announced plans to revamp the Star Tours attraction to be a 3-D experience, opening in 2011. The company also announced plans to vastly expand its Fantasyland attraction at Walt Disney World, opening in 2012.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Disney, Zemeckis Plan to Embark on Yellow Submarine
After putting their spin on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis and Disney Studio are planning to remake the 1968 Beatles’ animated feature Yellow Submarine. According to Daily Variety, the studio has been trying to nab the rights for 16 original Beatles songs to be used in the movie to be helmed by Zemeckis. The director will use the new performance-capture 3-D digital technology that he has perfected in A Christmas Carol for this new venture.
If all goes as planned, the remake will premiere around the 2012 Summer Olympics, which begins July 27 in London. Zemeckis’ ImageMovers will produce the animated extravaganza. The original movie was directed by George Dunning and found the Beatles accompanying Captain Fred in his submarine to go to the undersea paradise Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
FG's STEWIE GRIFFIN Comes Out!
MacFarlane: Yup, Stewie’s Gay 
From Animation Magazine:
Thursday, August 13, 2009By: Ramin Zahed
After suspecting it all along, we now have confirmation from Family Guy creator that the show’s breakout character Stewart Gilligan “Stewie” Griffin is gay. MacFarlane, who also voices the diabolical child genius, told Playboy recently that the writers had written a whole script in which Stewie does come out of the closet.
"We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Stewie does come out,” said MacFarlane. “It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.’ But we decided it’s better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he’s a one-year-old. Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he’s so hell-bent on killing [his mother, Lois] and taking over the world: He has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation."
Sadly, neither Barbara Walters nor People magazine are planning special “Stewie Comes Out” editions!
The new season of Family Guy will begin on Sunday, September 27 on FOX-TV at 9 p.m, following the premiere of The Cleveland Show at 8:30 p.m.
From Animation Magazine:
Thursday, August 13, 2009By: Ramin Zahed
After suspecting it all along, we now have confirmation from Family Guy creator that the show’s breakout character Stewart Gilligan “Stewie” Griffin is gay. MacFarlane, who also voices the diabolical child genius, told Playboy recently that the writers had written a whole script in which Stewie does come out of the closet.
"We had an episode that went all the way to the script phase in which Stewie does come out,” said MacFarlane. “It had to do with the harassment he took from other kids at school. He ends up going back in time to prevent a passage in Leviticus from being written: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination.’ But we decided it’s better to keep it vague, which makes more sense because he’s a one-year-old. Ultimately, Stewie will be gay or a very unhappy repressed heterosexual. It also explains why he’s so hell-bent on killing [his mother, Lois] and taking over the world: He has a lot of aggression, which comes from confusion and uncertainty about his orientation."
Sadly, neither Barbara Walters nor People magazine are planning special “Stewie Comes Out” editions!
The new season of Family Guy will begin on Sunday, September 27 on FOX-TV at 9 p.m, following the premiere of The Cleveland Show at 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
PHINEAS & FERB Nominated for EMMY!
From Animation Magazine:
Phineas and Ferb Creators Talk About Emmy Nom!
Thursday, July 16, 2009By: Ramin Zahed
Since Disney’s popular Phineas and Ferb series was nominated for an Emmy in the Special Class category (for the episode titled “The Monster Of Phineas-N-Ferbenstein”) we contacted the show’s creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh to hear what they had to say about the good news.
“We’re thrilled and feel like we’re back in grade school,” says Povenmire, who was also nominated last year for Best Title Theme and Best Music and Lyrics. “It really helps that the Academy created this Special Class category for animated half-hour shows that have two 11-minute episodes. It used to be that the Emmys would always go to shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy and just one slot saved for shows made for kids. But this year, it’s great because we share the category with SpongeBob SquarePants.”
You can read the rest of the article by clicking on the title of this post.
Phineas and Ferb Creators Talk About Emmy Nom!
Thursday, July 16, 2009By: Ramin Zahed
Since Disney’s popular Phineas and Ferb series was nominated for an Emmy in the Special Class category (for the episode titled “The Monster Of Phineas-N-Ferbenstein”) we contacted the show’s creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh to hear what they had to say about the good news.
“We’re thrilled and feel like we’re back in grade school,” says Povenmire, who was also nominated last year for Best Title Theme and Best Music and Lyrics. “It really helps that the Academy created this Special Class category for animated half-hour shows that have two 11-minute episodes. It used to be that the Emmys would always go to shows like The Simpsons and Family Guy and just one slot saved for shows made for kids. But this year, it’s great because we share the category with SpongeBob SquarePants.”
You can read the rest of the article by clicking on the title of this post.
Voice Actor McKennon Dies
From Animation World Magazine:
Voice Actor McKennon Dies
Tuesday, July 14, 2009By: Thomas J. Mclean
Dallas McKennon, a prolific voice actor for more than 50 years in animated films and TV shows, died Tuesday morning at the age of 89.
McKennon was best known as the voice of Gumby, as well as Archie in the Filmation animated TV series and Buzz Buzzard in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
He also did voices and sang for many Disney projects, including Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
His voice also can be heard at Disney’s theme parks on such attractions as Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, as Ben Franklin in Epcot’s American Adventure and as Zeke in the Country Bear Jamboree.
McKennon died at his home in Oregon.
Voice Actor McKennon Dies
Tuesday, July 14, 2009By: Thomas J. Mclean
Dallas McKennon, a prolific voice actor for more than 50 years in animated films and TV shows, died Tuesday morning at the age of 89.
McKennon was best known as the voice of Gumby, as well as Archie in the Filmation animated TV series and Buzz Buzzard in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
He also did voices and sang for many Disney projects, including Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
His voice also can be heard at Disney’s theme parks on such attractions as Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, as Ben Franklin in Epcot’s American Adventure and as Zeke in the Country Bear Jamboree.
McKennon died at his home in Oregon.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
"Phineas & Ferb" Renewed by Disney!
BRENTOONS MEDIA has learned that The Disney Channel is picking up Dan Povenmire's "Phineas & Ferb" for another season. Co-created & co-produced by Dan Povenmire and Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh, this brings the episode total to 100 and counting...!
Congratulations, fellas, and keep up the good work! And by 'good work' I really mean 'great work' and am proud and excited for you!
Click on the title of this post to read the article on 'Animation Magazine'.....!
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