Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

- Charles Solomon has written a very interesting article for the NYTimes on Goro Miyazaki‘s animated feature, Tales From Earthsea. Of course, Mr. Miyazaki is the son of the other Miyazaki, Hayao. The article discusses the problems of being the son of someone so famous and the expectant comparisons people have made about him and his work. Many of the critics seem to be negative. (Here’s the Variety review.)

The film has done well in Japan (though not quite up to the results of his father’s films) and has received some backlash from Ursula K. LeGuin whose Earthsea books were adapted for the film.

The U.S. release of Goro Miyazaki’s film is being held up by the Sci-Fi Network who owns the rights until 2009. They did a poor live action film which is available in dvd.

For some small information regarding Hayao Miyazaki‘s next feature go here or here.
Visit Daniel Thomas MacInnes‘ site Conversations on Ghibli.

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- Hans Perk on his site, A Film LA, has posted the Ken Andersen LayOut Training Course from the Disney studio Nov, 1936. I’ve posted two of these – Part I and Part III. This is the one, Part II, of the series that I was missing. I do have a fourth (actually the first one) that Phil Dike gave on May, 1936, but two of it’s pages were copied off kilter. I’ll post that soon.

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- Posting that caricature of the folks in my studio in 1992 gave me the idea that I should be posting links to blogs and sites that some of my ex-employees have. Here are a couple of them:

Stephen MacQuignon has always been interested in fantasy art, and his site reflects this -Stephen MacQuignon.

Jason McDonald has two sites – My Living Dead Girl and Jason McDonald Design.

Sophie Kittredge has a beautiful array of illustrations and maps – Craven Design/Sophie Kittredge.

Robert Marianetti and his partner David Wachtenheim have a studio site that is under construction – wmanimation.com

Doug Compton, animator extraordinaire, has his site – Karmatoons.

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