The Blackwing Diaries

This Saturday, June 23, Gallery Nucleus   is hosting an "Art of Brave" panel. Present, signing and speaking-and in the ca...

 Matt Nolte's early sketch of Elinor tangling with Merida's unruly mane. c. Disney/Pixar On June 15th the New York Times ran a...

At lunch today with several of my story colleagues the talk turned to films as yet unreleased, those in different styles and with potential ...

If anything from my experience of the last 15 years or so has made itself clear to me as a story truism, it's that the importance of the...

This is a reposting of a Diaries entry from March 2006 that I think bears revisiting. Michael Sporn posted this still of Bill Peet-taken...

This typical Fred Moore group of ladies en deshabille is being auctioned online today by  Heritage . It's...

I came across this today and thought I'd post it; I haven't seen it elsewhere although as one of many hundreds of such photos taken ...

Time magazine's online edition has a "behind the scenes" slideshow featuring Pixar's next release, Brave ....

Traditional character/hand-drawn animator (and current Disney visdev artist) Minkyu Lee has been working on a personal film over the past t...

  A Christmas card from Ray and Charles Eames Last night for their season finale, the PBS series American Masters aired a new documentary...

Profiles In History's "Icons of Animation" auction is happening right now, 11am PST, Saturday the 17th, so you still have a s...

...as imagined by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Woody Van Dyke, inspired by Dashiell Hammett and interpreted by Myrna Loy, William Powel...

  This is a repost of one of my earliest entries, shortly after I began this blog in 2005. I think it suits the season and so merits an enco...

Although it won't be on shelves for another seven months, last week Amazon put up the cover art and a short description for "The Ar...