The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Disney's grand experimental film Fantasia remains one of my all time pieces of film making. T...

Nana, who acts like a nanny to the Darling children, is a minor, but terrific character nevertheless in the film Peter Pan.  She is handl...

An early pre-animation, charming model sheet. Milt wasn't happy at all when Walt Disney asked him to take on the animation for Pete...

© Andreas Deja A watercolor sketch from a few years ago. Wouldn't it be fun to reenact classic Hollywood scenes in pencil animati...

My upcoming book with Focal Press "The Nine Old Men: Lessons, Technique and Inspiration from Disney's Great Animators" will...

I don't know when exactly this book was published, a date wasn't included in it. My guess would be mid 1960s. It doesn't mat...

The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco just opened a stunning exhibition about two of the greatest artists of the last ce...

Disney Studios soundstage, late 1950s. Sleeping Beauty Live action reference is being filmed for the animators. A moment from the film...

I have had numerous posts on the film  Lady and the Tramp , featuring one of its funniest characters,  the Beaver. Here is one more, sinc...

Sometimes you just luck out!! A few years ago I had the tremendous pleasure to be on a flight from LA to Paris, sitting next to none ...

More of John Lounsbery's work, this time undisputedly brilliant. The crocodile in Peter Pan is for the most part a comedic villain, ...