The Disney Junior 24/7 cable channel launches on March 23rd and will premiere our brand new show, Doc McStuffins!
Disney Junior was introduced as a programming block on Disney Channel last February to excellent ratings, and now the new channel will provide 24 hour programming for kids aged 2 to 7. Doc McStuffins is the first brand new series to premiere on the channel.
Doc McStuffins and her Disney pals
From Disney’s press release:
“Doc McStuffins” – an animated series about a six-year-old girl who communicates with and heals stuffed animals and toys in her backyard clinic. Under the consultancy of the Hollywood Health & Society division of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, the series will highlight the importance of taking care of oneself and others, while showcasing the hallmarks of great Disney storytelling – fantasy and wish fulfillment.
Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Chris Nee (”Little Bill” and “Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska”) is the creator and executive producer, and Emmy Award-winning Norton Virgien (”Rugrats”) is the director. “Doc McStuffins” is a production of the Dublin, Ireland-based Brown Bag Films (two time Academy Award nominee for “Granny O’Grimm” and “Give Up Yer Aul Sins”).
DisneyJunior.com will debut a “Doc McStuffins” supersite featuring an interactive clinic where kids can assist Doc in nurturing toys back to health.
We can’t wait to share the show with you and see what you think!
The brilliant website Letters Of Note, which unearths fascinating correspondence and posts a new letter each day, posted this letter from Pixar animator Aaron Hartline to an aspiring animator Willie Downs. I thought it was such a great letter of encouragement for anyone working to achieve their dream of being an animator
According to Letters Of Note, “Downs – a huge fan of Pixar from the beginning who, it seems, was simply in need of this very support illustrated below – has since taken Hartline’s advice and is currently a student of the animation school at which he teaches: Animation Mentor“.
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Brown Bag Films are to produce Doc McStuffins, a new 52 episode series for Disney that will be broadcast on US cable TV channel Disney Junior.
The Doc is in! Doc McStuffins
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Last night saw the premiere of Disney’s Princess and the Frog in the Savoy cinema. In attendance were the film’s directors Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid) and John Musker (Aladdin). Also there on the night was supervising animator Andreas Deja, producer Peter del Vecho, and Anika Noni Rose who provides the voice of Princess Tiana in the film.
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With all the interest in 2D animation lately I thought I’d watch some classic Disney. I have Sleeping Beauty on Blu-Ray so I threw that on. I haven’t seen this film in years and it’s only now that I realised how much I love Maleficent in it! We all love our heroes and well-doers but for me, you can’t have a good, classic Disney feature without some (to borrow a phrase from Jennifer Coolidge’s Amanda in Friends) ‘positively ghastly’ villains!
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There is a big hullabaloo about this latest feature from Disney as not only is it their first under the new creative director John Lasseter, but it’s also a return to HAND DRAWN animation!!!
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Found this video on the history of Disney and storyboarding. It’s pretty cool.
