Remembering Annette

April 12, 2013 by Michael Mallory No Comments

I’m going to take a little detour this week out of the Toon Trenches to remember a person who was enormously important to the Walt Disney Studios in the 1950s, and whose passing was just was announced: Annette Funicello. Anyone of my generation knows both versions of Annette: the teenaged [...]

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An Interview with Disney/Pixar President Dr. Ed Catmull

April 2, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments

There are a handful of people in this world who represent everything that the CG animation community has been able to achieve in the past few decades. Pixar co-founder and president Dr. Ed Catmull, who is also the president of Disney Studios, is one of the top visionaries in our [...]

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