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Princess Tiana in "The Princess and the Frog" Walt Disney Pictures Christmas 2009 For more than a decade now, animated films have been dominated by computer-generated images; but Disney takes a big step back with its new feature: a tune-filled fairy tale created by hand-drawn animation, in the style studio founder Walt Disney used to make.

Directed by Ron Clements and Ron Musker. Produced by Peter Del Vecho. Written by Clements, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, Musker and Jason Oremland.

John Lasseter, you've just created the game-changing movie " Toy Story ," the first-ever computer-animated feature film, and you're about to turn 40.

The last time we heard from the hand-drawn animators at Disney, they offered up the barnyard tale "Home on the Range." The 2004 'toon was so forgettable it seemed as though it really might be the last time we ever heard from the hand-drawn animators at the studio where the art form was pioneered.

Disney Animation had announced in 2004 that Home On The Range would be the studio's last 2D animated film entry to their pantheon of animated features, due in part to the extremely successful CGI Animated Pixar films.

Directed John Lasseter , Pixar's co-founder and director of Toy Story 1 & 2, A Bug's Life and Cars ,A Unidentified Flying Mater is the fifth in a series of Cars short films .

The Disney animation team of Ron Clements and John Musker wrote and directed the 1989 blockbuster musical fairy tale "The Little Mermaid," and followed that up with 1992's "Aladdin" and 1997's "Hercules." Seven years after their last Disney film, 2002's "Treasure Planet," the two are back with the new musical fairy tale, "The Princess and the ...

Pixar's "Partly Cloudy" is the most high-profile title among the 10 animated shorts that are advancing in the 2009 Oscar race.

I opined when it came to Up that it's hard to judge the Pixar canon because there are so few missteps, but when it comes to favorites, everyone's got to have one.

The holiday season is nearly upon us and ABC is set to kick off the month of December with the premiere of a half-hour Christmas special called Disney Prep & Landing .

Wikipedia has a list of the highest grossing films of this decade so far, and kottke noticed that of the top 20 films at the box office, only one movie was not based on a past film or tv show , or an adaptation of an established property .

Pete Docter's Pixar production Up is not just the best animated film of 2009, it is one of the best films made in any style, genre and country.

Rich Ross is putting his mark on Walt Disney Studios, bringing over a technology guru from Pixar and promoting the home entertainment chief to a newly created job.

November 9, 2009 Digital Vision, a global leader in color grading and enhancement systems, has announced that Pixar Animation Studios will take delivery of two Digital Vision Film Masters and replace the current color grading systems at its Emeryville headquarters in the coming weeks.

Up ***** As ambitious and strange as its title is simple, Up tells the story of Carl Fredricksen , a curmudgeonly widower who decides to tie thousands of helium-filled balloons to his house and float away to South America - the place where, for many decades, he had hoped to travel with his late wife.

Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:28am EST -Pete Docter, director and screenwriter of the Disney-Pixar animated film "Up", poses with characters Carl Fredricksen, Dug and Russell from the film during the film's premiere in Hollywood, California May 16, 2009.

While he and fellow Pixar Animation Studios filmmaker Pete Docter have been hailed for their genius in the co-writing and co-direction of the blockbuster "Up," Bob Peterson has no bone to pick the praise he's been thrown for voicing Dug -- the lovable standout among the film's uproarious talking dog pack.

Monsters, Inc. represents something of a pivotal moment for Pixar. It was the first time director John Lasseter turned over the reigns, and coming off of Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life that was probably for the best.

"The time just seemed ripe to do a story about a senior citizen." That's "UP" co-director Bob Peterson speaking on this DVD's commentary track.

This spring, Wall Street was fretting over the uncertain commercial prospects of Pete Docter's Up .