When 70 artists were assigned to an animation showcase at Orlando’s Disney-MGM Studios in 1989, they were more tourist attraction than working studio. Animators were considered so expendable that ...

The Florida Animation Festival (FAF) is the only festival of its kind in the region, celebrating the art of animation in all its forms. Submissions for 2019's Florida Animation Festival are now ...

A very rare late 1980s behind-the-scenes video has resurfaced on Matt Jones’ Shot, Drawn & Cut Youtube channel which provides a detailed look at the production of the Roger Rabbit short Roller Coaster ...

The animation won the first place in two sections, namely the Mixed-Media/Experimental Animation and the Audience Favorites. The animation is about a piano player who ...

Walt Disney Studios is expected to shutter its Orlando, Fla.-based feature animation unit Monday amid an effort to rein in costs and concentrate production around its Burbank headquarters. Most of the ...

Disney shared a rare look inside the Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida building backstage at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, where “Lilo & Stitch” and other Walt Disney Animation Studios classics were ...

Disney’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Pixar should bring back bragging rights to a studio that was founded on cartoons but — ironically — has spent much of the past decade running away from cartoons.

The end — when it came — shocked some. “I thought, ‘Layoffs, maybe. But they’re a year away,’ ” says key assistant animator Merritt Andrews. “We had a movie to finish. “Then they pulled the magic ...

While Kris Petersen, festival chair for the Florida Animation Festival, edited together the trailer for the 2021 festival, she reflected on the rollercoaster emotions of the past year. She combed ...

The Tallahassee Film Society has had to press pause on screenings at its All Saints Cinema location in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the Florida Animation Festival (FAF) has been working ...