From “Chicken Little” to “Lion King”: A 3-D Marketing Roller Coaster

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From “Chicken Little” to “Lion King”: A 3-D Marketing Roller Coaster

John Lasseter on BBC talks about Making Animated Films and Toy Story 4 Rumors

There’s a 2 minute video over on the BBC website with John Lasseter, director of Pixar’s Cars 2 and studio animation chief, talking about the process of making an animated film. Nothing new there really, but interesting how he compares it to ‘live action’ film making. The clip is also notable for a brief deflection by Lasseter when asked about Toy Story 4, as announced by Tom Hanks.

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Pixar short La Luna to premier in Los Angeles this weekend

If you find yourself in Los Angeles this weekend, get on down to the 15th annual LA Shorts Festival. There you’ll be able to attend a Pixar Screening & Workshop from one of Pixar’s animators.

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Pixar Animators Motivational Persistence of Vision Letter

For those familiar with the legend of Walt Disney the phrase Persistence of Vision. It was the name of a Disney history magazine, but also stood in for Walt’s driving force.

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Disney Song Medley by Alan Menken

I love it whenever Disney releases a movie or DVD overseas.

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Disney Song Medley by Alan Menken

Animator Legend Andreas Deja has started a blog

Animator Andreas Deja, still works with Disney on certain projects, but is no longer a full time animator for the Mouse House, has hung out his internet shingle in form of a blog. Deja View is still in rough form, but it’s there. Hopefully someone will give him some formatting advice, show him Blogspot’s WYSIWYG interface, and then set him free

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Animator Legend Andreas Deja has started a blog

Dana Booton, my cousin, promoted to GM of Film Roman

Okay, bear with me.

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Dana Booton, my cousin, promoted to GM of Film Roman

NY Times Helps Pixar Lobby for Best Picture Oscar

A new story in the New York Times Carpetbagger blog , which focuses on the entertainment scene, reads half like a puff piece for Pixar and half like plea from animators who feel like Rodney Dangerfield, they just can’t get no respect. The Pixar team would dearly love to win a best picture Oscar

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Another Business Lesson from Pixar

About two years ago Ed Catmull’s talk on keeping your crises small made the internet circuit ( video of his speech ).

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Toy Story 3 – Disney’s Circle Seven Version

Think back to the days when there was a real possibility that Pixar would leave the Disney family due to bad feelings created when executives at Disney attempted to push the boys from Emeryville around. It was pretty touch and go there for awhile, but Disney execs felt they held a trump card that would bring Pixar back to the negotiation table no matter how hard they pushed. That trump card was the rights to produce a third Toy Story film apart from Pixar.

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