Concept art by Paul Felix for The Snow Queen (unreleased), Walt Disney Feature Animation

Felix created these for one of Disney's pre-Frozen attempts to adapt The Snow Queen

Concept art by Paul Felix for The Snow Queen (unreleased), Walt Disney Feature Animation

Felix created these for one of Disney's pre-Frozen attempts to adapt The Snow Queen

From: Hen, His Wife (1989), dir. Igor Kovalyov, Pilot

Concept art by Mary Blair for Alice in Wonderland (1951), dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions

Pages from an amazing drawing guide by Disney veterans Paul Felix and Jim Schlenker -- these were created for a class on layout and composition

Concept art by Claire Keane for Tangled (2010), dir. Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Catching up on Animation Obsessive newsletters and reading this great Del Toro quote has somehow reinvigorated me.

Years ago, two developers flooded Google Play with 1,500 automated slot-machine games. All it took to make and upload one was 'typing in one word and pressing enter.'

It was a joke. But it predicted the AI crisis in animation today, as we write:
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From: Butterfly (1972), dir. Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Soyuzmultfilm

Early concept art by Sylvain Marc for The Amazing World of Gumball (2011–), created by Ben Bocquelet, Cartoon Network Studios Europe

From: Exercises in Preparation for Independent Life (1980), dir. Priit Pärn, Tallinnfilm

The war between the imagination of childhood and the stuffy adult world

This is a story we've been wanting to unearth. The Big City is a cult classic of MTV's Liquid Television series -- but we never knew exactly how it came to be.

So we reached out to its creator Ed Bell. With his help, we've gone behind the scenes:
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Visual development art by Noëlle Triaureau for Hotel Transylvania (2012), dir. Genndy Tartakovsky, Sony Pictures Animation

Building moments in Mai Mai Miracle (2009), dir. Sunao Katabuchi, Madhouse

Key animation by Kazutaka Ozaki, Akiko Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Kenji Hachizaki

Background paintings by Jenny Gase-Baker for The Mighty B! (2008–2011), created by Amy Poehler, Cynthia True and Erik Wiese, Paper Kite Productions

Concept art for Giacomo's Secret (unreleased), dir. Sergio Pablos, The SPA Studios

Hello! I wrote, designed and directed an animated musical called 'Lucky Dog' and it's been featured on the wonderful Animation Obsessive ! Check out the article to learn about the origin of the film and the process of making it :)

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