The Typography of Disney Animation Logos #9: The Bronze Age Continued

Next up are a set of films that comprise the late 1970s and early 1980s... By this point in time, Disney animated features took longer to ready. A new film would arrive every 3-4 years. Of course, this was still an age where home video was just beginning to become a thing. Home video wouldn't …

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... …

Literally Animation…

Imagine that... A trailer for an upcoming Disney sequel has me thinking about animation in general. What else is new? Trailers can be funny beasts... They can present a movie in a way that's so different from the tone of the finished product. Animated movies can certainly be an example of this. It's always quite …

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 …

The Typography of Disney Animation Logos #6: The Early-to-Mid ’50s

After years of anthology features and saving on money, Walt Disney finally took the big gamble... A new, single-story, feature-length animated film. It was released at the beginning of the new decade, the 1950s... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio Fantasia Dumbo and Bambi Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, and Make Mine Music …

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 …

Disney Snobbery

Sometimes, being the kind of Disney "fan" I am is full of contradictions... Cliche as it is to say, the work of The Walt Disney Company has millions and millions of fans, and not everybody is going to view that massive, gargantuan body of work the same way. That is obvious, isn't it? Even when …