Treat yourself to a viewing of the animated film Klaus on Netflix. Sergio Pablos and his crew managed to come up with a brand new style ...

So happy and proud to report that progress on MUSHKA has been substantial.  We are locking several more sequences in final color, it is a...

Most Disney animation history buffs agree, John Lounsbery doesn't get enough love. He died in February of 1976 as the first of the Ni...

These charming story sketches are by Bill Peet. (Not 100% sure about the last one.) Peet's work was an animator's dream come true...

Preston Blair was an extraordinary animator who worked for Disney, MGM and Hanna-Barbera.  His work on Mickey in the Sorcerer's Appre...

There were many different design versions drawn for the Witches of Morva in  The Black Cauldron . Artists like Milt Kahl, Mel Shaw and Ti...

Today by accident I came across a lecture given by animator Chuck Harvey at California State University in 2017. Chuck talked about his own...

This story sketch showing how Shere Khan extends his claws in front of Mowgli is by Vance Gerry. Its gets a little tricky when a four leg...

This was my first scene that involved a character's eye to pop out a la Tex Avery. I remember paying attention to the technical aspects...

Story artist Vance Gerry boarded Medusa's introduction sequence from The Rescuers. You can see that Vance was still kind of hanging on ...

This is a reject for a proposed illustration to help promote Mickey's 90th anniversary. Theme park Mickey and Steamboat Willie take a...

I have always loved the design and animation of the Pegasus pair in Fantasia. Beautiful simplified anatomy combined with an elegant art d...

For some reason I have a difficult time finding those attributes in recent as well as upcoming animated feature releases. Look at h...

A small selection of photostats from Cinderella .  Filming all that live action to help the animators maintain realism in their ...

Get this book! The catalogue/book that covers the Walt Disney Family Museum's current exhibition is gorgeous. My co-curator Micheal...