John Musker: Bringing Animated Dreams to the Big Screen

 

 

 

Also check out:

// John Musker's Advice for Young Animators

Industry Giants Interview: Ron Clements

 

  Great interview here with Ron Clements

John Musker's Advice for Young Animators

Animator's Breakfast | Bambi with James Baxter

 

Great interview here with James Baxter.

 

 

Disney Research - Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze

 

The motion is feeling better but it's still in uncanny valley. Cool but creepy!

 

You can read the technical paper here:

// Disney Research - Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze

 "We present a general architecture that seeks not only to create gaze interactions from a technological standpoint,but  also  through  the  lens  of  character  animation  where  the fidelity  and  believability  of  motion  is  paramount;" -Walt Disney Imagineering - Advanced Development, Glendale, California, USA

 

Interview With Disney Character Designer Harald Siepermann

Harald Siepermann was a fantastic character designer and storyartist. I started following his blog in the early 2000's until he stopped posting in 2011. I highly recommend you check out his blog and website. There are tons of great stories, pictures and artwork from various productions he worked on over his 30 year career. Below is an old interview that I found recently. Sadly, it looks like it was posted just after he passed in 2013.

Blog: http://haraldsiepermann.blogspot.com/

Website:  https://haraldsiepermann.com/

NYFA Guest Speaker Series: Eric Goldberg (2018)

 "Eric Goldberg discusses his long history of work with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Warner Bros Animation and praise hand-drawn animation in an increasingly digital world."

 

Lecture By Director Chris Buck: Making Disney's Frozen

Randy Haycock animation tests










Also check out:

// THR - Full Animator Oscar Roundtable Interview

Chris Buck (co-director of Frozen), Dan Scanlon (director of Monsters University), Chris Wedge (director of Epic), Kristine Belson (producer of The Croods), and Chris Meledandri (Illumination CEO and a producer of Despicable Me 2)

How I Became A Disney Animator

John Canemaker Talks Schultheis, Kahl, Tytla and Gertie History

Nice chat with John Canemaker

Disney Production Pipeline 1946

Interesting to see what the Disney production pipeline looked like in 1946

Lady and the Tramp: Trusty Pencil Test

Matt Williames CalArts Lecture 2017

 Here's a great lecture by animator extraordinaire Matt Williames at CalArts.

Check out his blog here:

// Hand Drawn Nomad

Interview with Legendary Artist Jules Engel

Eric Goldberg's Advice for Young Animators

Beauty and the Beast: Stories From the Animator's Desk

Moana: Behind The Scenes

Making of Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

'Zootopia' Character Animation

Cartoon Legends Speak: Diversity and History of Animation SDCC 2016

A panel featuring great artists including Disney Legend, and first African-American animator hired at Walt Disney Studios, Floyd Norman (The Jungle Book, Monsters, Inc), first African-American animator to get a screen credit and award winning illustrator Ron Husband (The Rescuers, The Little Mermaid), Japanese-American and Inkpot winner Willie Ito (Lady & the Tramp, The Flintstones), Jane Baer (Sleeping Beauty, Roger Rabbit) and Emmy Award winning Mexican-American Phil Roman (Sleeping Beauty, The Simpsons) discuss their careers, their futures, and how diversity has played a role in their artistic lives. Moderated by Leslie Combemale of Animation Scoop.