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.
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!!!
Found this video on the history of Disney and storyboarding. It’s pretty cool.
