There are times when I want to make the switch from character to effects animation...at least for a little while. Effects animators ar...

A photostat of actors as pirates, as they go through the motions of threatening Smee. As the sequence's story goes, they feel the...

Milt Kahl was a junior animator in his 20s when he animated this scene with a dove "delivering" a kiss from Snow White to the P...

It is a mystery to me why Disney's Pinocchio wasn't as big of a box office hit (in its first release), if not bigger, than ...

One of Madame Mim's best acting moments, and one of my favorite Frank Thomas scenes. The witch is setting the rules for the wizard...

These stunning paintings appear in a book on Chinese painters, which I recently purchased. Beautiful brushwork and gorgeous watercolor...

I will be discussing this Maleficent scene by Marc Davis in my upcoming book The Nine Old Men . Most key drawings will be shown in se...

In this photo Disney background artists Al Dempster, Bill Layne and Art Riley are examining character color model cels and background pai...

This has always been fascinating to me: The relationship between Disney layouts and final backgrounds. It is interesting to see what th...

This gorgeous Merryweather scene by Frank Thomas will be part of my book on The Nine Old Men . The most important key drawings will be s...

What a great photo montage with King Louie next to jazz musician and trumpeter extraordinaire Louis Prima, who also voiced the chara...

During the Legends Lunch a little over a couple of weeks ago I was happy to see a true Disney Legend, Ruthie Thompson. The first time I m...

...toward the end of next month: - Hardcover, almost 400 pages - Hundreds of drawings by the Nine Old Men, most of them never published...