Animation’s Weird History With Sequels

Sequels, sequels, sequels... Apparently the mark of creative stagnation. Even more so with animation, even more so with the supposedly too-holy-for-sequels Pixar... The very studio that wasn't allowed by the company they were once in a contract with to make sequels. Oh yeah, did you ever miss those fine details? On how Pixar's original contract …

Streamation

I have wondered all throughout the spring and summer of this disastrous year if the most recent animated features were all going to go to streaming, and possibly relegate animated features to the small screen only in the foreseeable future. Sometimes the Chicken Little in my head goes off in scenarios like these, because animation …

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 …

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 …