Frank and Ollie talk Mickey

Stumbled onto this wonderful interview with Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston discussing Mickey Mouse. It’s fascinating to hear there’s thought as they handle these old drawings. Both animators worked on the Brave Little tailor which I think is one of the best Mickey Mouse shorts, I love the medieval setting and mickeys costume, Frank’s scene where Mickey describes his encounter to the king is probably my favourite sequence of Mickey.

There’s also a great documentary on Frank and Ollie, directed by Frank’s son covering their career and their long friendship.

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Lilo and Stitch Deleted scene

Here’s a beautiful pencil animated scene that was cut from Lilo and Stitch. It’s rather crazy to me that a scene as powerful and important as this, that has been taken this far through production then got cut. The themes are very moving and it’s quite a statement in itself to decide to not include it. Someone had to watch this scene, understand the message and then say “nah let’s not go there” I’m not sure who the animators were on this, Andreas Deja was main animator for Lilo so that’s not a bad guess, that he might of been involved. I suspect it was multiple animators, as it’s really multiple shots / characters that could be handled by different people. Anyway the animation is superb…

Mushka - the trailer for Andreas Deja’s new film

Andreas Deja has been working on this beautiful short film about a little girl and a tiger, I don’t know much more about it than that, except he’s been working away on it for many years. I first discovered it when I first stumbled onto his blog and I have been excited to see it ever since. We have now finally got a trailer and it is of course full of beautiful animation. Enjoy! Also check out this teaser from 2012! Gosh it’s been a while, I think I personally learnt of the project in 2017. It really goes to show how long animated projects like this can take.

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