Yesterday was Frank Thomas' 112th birthday. His work and the films he worked on have become timeless masterpieces. When reflecting on ...

  Today is Eric Larson's birthday. This is also post # 1500. I am re-posting the first blog image from June 6, 2011. The pic was taken b...

I am not sure who the actors are who provided live action reference scenes for the animators here. But I do know Milt Kahl animated this sec...

These are various bits and pieces from scenes that show my first rough animation pass. After approval I redrew the animation in light blue a...

I am thrilled to add these two relatively small original drawings to my modest Wilhelm M Busch collection. Two centaurs, ball pen, and a cir...

I have written before about John Lounsbery's involvement in the character of Robin Hood. He started him off by animating a few scenes, b...

I have written plenty about The Black Cauldron over the years. This was my first project at Disney when I started there in August of 1980. T...

Congratulations to Mark Henn for receiving the Disney Legend Award! I worked with Mark on the same sequences from time to time. Here are a f...

Russel Hall animated  most key scenes with Jessica. His take on the character is unique as you can see in these two spectacular rough drawin...

As mentioned in my previous Hercules post, I recently re-discovered early character designs which I thought had been lost. These marker draw...