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

DISCLAIMER: As an often-growing and often-changing person in these hell-times, I'm going to need new readers who somehow stumbled upon this 3-year-old post to understand something... Even recent opinions of mine on my passions can be outdated within a year or two, as I find new things to discover and appreciate in what I love, …

Spider-Reversal

Is Sony Pictures Animation's 2018 multidimensional superhero masterpiece a reversal of feature animation trends that have been brewing since the dawn of computer animated features? Is it, in fact, a reversal of what's been going on with the features end of the medium since the end of animation's first Golden Age? I think it's a …

I Love Both INCREDIBLES 2 and SPIDER-VERSE

Awards season is over. For the first time in years, an animation giant other than The Walt Disney Company took home a majority of the awards, including the coveted Oscar. Yes, Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse was the grand champion of 2018's animated feature crop, in a year with some pretty fierce competition. Big …

Onward, Pixar!

Perhaps I'm breaking my post-graduation tradition here. Back in July of last year, I had ceased writing for my old animation news blog Kyle's Animated World, but I did say that I would still be talking about the happenings in the animation industry in some way or another. A lot of animation news and newly-announced …

Hey, Say Something Nice About DreamWorks!

A friend of mine who is a big fan of DreamWorks and their How To Train Your Dragon film franchise posted one day about how frustrated she is at how people talk about DreamWorks. The idea that they are a bad studio, that they are inferior to the "masters" at Disney and Pixar, that they're …