An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki(animationobsessive.substack.com)

51 points by vinhnx 14 days ago | 6 comments

An Animation Obsessive newsletter article about an unmade film project that influenced Hayao Miyazaki's career, plus animation news bits.

Making the video that made Gorillaz(animationobsessive.substack.com)

175 points by darekkay 1 year ago | 39 comments

The 'Toy Story' You Remember(animationobsessive.substack.com)

1075 points by ani_obsessive 11 months ago | 303 comments

An Animation Obsessive newsletter post about how the original Toy Story looked when it was printed to film versus later digital versions, plus animation news.

The Artist Who Colored Ghibli(animationobsessive.substack.com)

94 points by herbertl 3 months ago | 8 comments

The Hand-Drawn Hits That Hollywood Isn't Making(animationobsessive.substack.com)

85 points by gyomu 1 year ago | 73 comments

Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that(animationobsessive.substack.com)

129 points by CharlesW 1 month ago | 24 comments

Animation Obsessive newsletter article explaining the visual design and background art style of the classic Looney Tunes short 'What's Opera, Doc?', plus animation news.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

Disney Lost Roger Rabbit(pluralistic.net)

482 points by leephillips 11 months ago | 225 comments

Cory Doctorow's Pluralistic newsletter edition of 18 Nov 2025, about Disney losing rights to Roger Rabbit, likely via copyright termination.

In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online(filmstories.co.uk)

239 points by rdmuser 21 days ago | 31 comments

Film Stories news article reporting that a digital archive of animation materials from Tippett Studio appeared online after the studio's closure.

What goes into making an animated film?(disneyanimation.com)

157 points by embedding-shape 20 hours ago | 67 comments

Walt Disney Animation Studios page explaining its filmmaking process, breaking down Zootopia 2 into sequences, shots, and frames across departments.

Disney's Mickey Mouse enter public domain(bbc.com)

347 points by coolandsmartrr 2 years ago | 160 comments

BBC News article reporting that Disney's earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse entered the US public domain on 1 January 2024 as copyright expired.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.