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...

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...