Spread over 4 pages the Disney themepark site Laughingplace.com introduces or should I say re-introduces it’s readers to the lead animators of the upcoming 2D The Princess and the Frog. People who actually don’t need introduction because their fame, sometimes gathered over three decades drawing legendary Disney characters, exceeds them. Who doesn’t remembers names like [...]

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The Animation Podcast talked with Ken Duncan is a Disney character animator from 1990 to 2002 projects include supporting characters like Thomas in Pocahontas to leading a team of animators on bringing Megara (Hercules) and Tarzan’s Jane to life. On Aladdin he worked with Andreas Deja on Jafar.
He left Disney after Treasure Planet to [...]

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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Hidden Gems

Browsing the LiveJournal community d_villains lead me to a Wiggins community, Governor Ratcliffe’s attended in Pocahontas, there I found hilarious fan art that I’ll save for another day.
But that video clip did make me ask myself who animated Wiggins and Ratcliffe. At first I thought it was Andreas who drew Ratcliffe, obvious because he did [...]

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