I have always loved the look of Disney's 1953 featurette Ben and Me . Ken Anderson and Claude Coats were art directors, Al De...

Ward Kimball animated a little musical number involving Ludwig von Drake for Disney's 1961 TV show Adventures in Color . At that ...

We all know that Milt Kahl does "Eccentric" very well. Medusa, Madame Mim, the short Tiger Trouble etc. He also does "Re...

To start off, let me inform you that my book on Disney's Nine Old Men has been published. If you order it from Amazon, it's not a pr...

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...