Animated News: Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim interviewed

Lauren MacMullan and Eric Goldberg
OIAF 2013

Just in case you missed it, Disney has posted an interview with "Get A Horse" animated short creators Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim, Eric Goldberg, and Adam Green on the Disney Insider blog earlier this month.

Clocking in at almost four minutes long, among other things, the video discusses the challenges of editing Walt's dialog from previous recordings or 2D and 3D animation crews working together to make the two different visual sequences mesh seamlessly.

The video can be viewed at the following link: http://blogs.disney.com/insider/articles/2014/02/25/meet-the-creators-of-get-a-horse/.

Animated News: Frozen earns over $600M in the box office

Anna and Elsa

According to Animation Magazine, this weekend Disney's 'Frozen' brought it's worldwide take to $639.9 million. As reported by Ramin Zahed, directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, 'Frozen' is now the second most successful Disney animated film--second only to the 'Lion King'. You can read his article here on the Animation Magazine website. If you haven't seen it yet, take a look a the trailer below to see a glimpse of what you're missing.



And then follow it up with my favorite sequence from 'Frozen'.



I'll be honest, I really don't like musicals so whenever characters start singing in animated films, my teeth start to grind, but this sequence was just spectacular! Mandy Moore set a really high bar with some of her songs in 'Tangled', but Idina Menzel is well on her way to making "Let It Go" one of those iconic Disney songs.

 

* image linked to from Animation Magazine's article:
"'Frozen' Takes Top Spot, Hits $600 Million Mark", January 5, 2014.
http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/frozen-takes-top-spot-hits-600-million-mark/