Don Bluth first found his “laughing place” — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. Today an animation ...
Don Bluth was just a teenager when he got his first taste of working at Disney. He would go on to work for the entertainment juggernaut for roughly 10 years, putting his special touch on films like ...
“We wanted to raise the level of animation with stories like the kinds of animated movies Disney made, dramatic, with humor and happy endings.” Gary Goldman on the magic formula behind ‘An American ...
Youtuber Matt Draper published a video recently titled The Disney/Don Bluth Animation War – The Story of a Rise, Fall & Renaissance, which is a deep-dive into one of animation’s greatest rivalries. In ...
In the animation world, Don Bluth was an anomaly. Like many with similar professional aspirations, Bluth dreamed of working for Disney, becoming a part of the illustrious studio behind such animated ...
“I watch the amounts of money spent on a 3D picture, and it’s up to something like $200 million or $300 million. And it’s more people, I grow old watching the end credits. So it seems to me that ...
Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...