keyleedaud (REAL ESTATE)

Two interesting posts from animator Matt Williames. The first is a collection of his pencil tests from The Princess and the Frog . The second contains his thoughts on working at Disney. (Link via On Animation .)

In retrospect, it was the height of ignorance to think that because multinational corporations abandoned drawn animation, the medium would die. It may not have been as visible in North America as it once was, but smaller studios were happy to keep making drawn films as if nothing had happened. The Princess and the Frog is the third drawn feature I've seen this year (after Miyazaki's Ponyo and Tomm Moore's The Secret of Kells ) and had circumstances not prevented me from going to the Ottawa festival, I would also have seen Paul and Sandra Fierlinger's My Dog Tulip . Of the three I have seen, I'm sorry to say that The Princess and the Frog is the least interesting. Disney's return to drawn animation is also a return to Disney clichés. With the exception of race (and I want to come back to that), there's nothing in this film that Disney hasn't done before. The truth, as everyone now acknowledges, is that people weren't tired of drawn animation, t...

I'm sure that there will be many interviews coming to publicize The Princess and the Frog . Here's one that deals with some technical issues, the crew and the possible futures for drawn Disney animation. (link via Jim Caswell .)