Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Aaron Blaise: Rajah was based on a car

Jason Anders talks with people in the animation industy to publish them on Full Circle Productions. This week he published his conversation with Rajah lead animator Aaron Blaise on his career.
On bringing the royal feline to live Aaron said:
During the design process, I did hundreds of tiger designs, trying to achieve the fluid Hershfeld [...]

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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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Monday, August 4th, 2008
The Making of Aladdin on Youtube

The Disney Channel version of The Making of Aladdin: A Whole New World just appeared on YouTube. The picture quality is to be desired but still watchable. Hosted by John Rhys-Davies who would provide the voice of Cassim in the third and final film he narrates the documentary. We hear and see the directors/writers/producers, the [...]

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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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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Making of A Whole New World

I pulled the post Making of Marketplace off because I couldn’t get the layout the way I wanted. It’s sitting in my drafts until I’m with it. In the mean time I’ve got 12 stills from the clean-up version A Whole New World.
Buried deep within disc 2 of the Special Edition DVD are a [...]

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Monday, January 14th, 2008
The Princess and the Frog first image

The online copy Walt Disney Company’s annual investors report has the first image of John Musker and Ron Clements 2009 Disney Feature The Princess and the Frog. Over that the Ultimate Disney forum people noticed the image resembles scenes varying from Peter Pan, the roof and door to Aladdin, Tiana’s pose. Indeed we’ve seen Jasmine [...]

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