Animated Long-Lasting Flavors

It seems some sequels to animated mega-hits go up, and some just slump... Also, disclaimer... Everything ahead refers to the DOMESTIC box office only... Recently, we saw Illumination's The Secret Life of Pets 2 dipping quite a bit from its 2016 predecessor's opening weekend gross. The original Secret Life of Pets opened with a massive $104 million, …

Sony Kicks Ass

If you ask me, the Annecy animation festival is one of the rare moments where the medium really gets to shine, free of any preconceived notions about animation hanging on its back like a weight. A place where animation studios and the filmmakers can just present their craft and talk about it as a craft... …

The Typography of Disney Animation Logos #8: The Posthumous Films

Part eight begins with a film released after Walt Disney's passing in December of 1966. The Jungle Book is still very much a Walt Disney film, and as such, it's marked as his final feature-length animated film... So, we now enter the post-Walt decades of Disney animated feature typography. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio Fantasia …

The Typography of Disney Animation Logos #7: End of the Silver Age

And now we head towards the end of what is mostly called The Silver Age... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio Fantasia Dumbo and Bambi Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, and Make Mine Music Fun & Fancy Free, Melody Time, and The Adventures of the Ichabod and Mr. Toad From Cinderella to Lady and the Tramp Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, and The Sword in the Stone …

Some Words on ‘Bendy’

No, no stuffy thinkpiece... No, today, I want to talk a little bit about a video game. I barely play video games these days, even though I admire and love the video game medium. I played video games when I had more free time, when I was younger, so nowadays it's just a matter of …

Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Fox: Disney’s Inadvertent Problem Solving?

What's that? More potentially insufferable Disney opinions from a guy who loves Disney? Also... Aren't I a little late? 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox film division, Fox Searchlight, and all of that company's TV divisions, was acquired by The Walt Disney Company two months ago! I thought I'd add a little belated …

I Want to Make More Fan-art

Actually, I have made fan-art in the past. I was never a fan of making fan-art, though. See what I did there? Despite being a studio art graduate, I still feel my work isn't up to par. Instead of using only my personal work as a way to get better at this stuff, I turned …

The Pixar Problem

This is a follow-up to what I had written about this week's shocking news... I had posted merely nine or so hours after the news broke that John Lasseter, one of the men who was extremely instrumental in making Pixar into what it is now and their creative overseer, is no different from other terrible …