Don Bluth first found his “laughing place” — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. Today an animation ...
Most artists would probably tell you that they hope their last work is their best work, that their final project is something reflective of everything they’ve learned, every failure or setback they’ve ...
Few animation companies have the longevity and cultural sway as Walt Disney. The studio’s meteoric rise is the quintessential American dream, and its films are as ubiquitous as water. Classics like ...
The defection of Don Bluth and like-minded colleagues from Disney in 1979 is a well-worn story in Hollywood animation. Less has been said about a chapter in Bluth’s career that followed soon after: ...
Twenty years ago on this day, 20th Century Fox released Don Bluth and Gary Goldman’s Anastasia, better known today as the film that everyone mistakes for a Disney production. Though it might seem a ...
ROME — American animator Don Bluth will receive the Pulcinella award for lifetime achievement at Italy’s 14th Cartoons on the Bay TV toons fest. Bluth left Disney in the 1980s to set up the Sullivan ...
Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...
In a small nondescript theater in a quiet strip mall in central Scottsdale sits a giant. The walls adorned with drawings that would elicit familiarity and nostalgia from any kid that grew up in the ...
For Don Bluth, the animated family film is not a dinosaur. Actually, Don Bluth made an animated family film about dinosaurs, The Land Before Time. Just last year. Dinosaurs have been good to Don Bluth ...