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LOS ANGELES -- Disney has gone back to the drawing board. Even as the computer-generated Bolt arrives today in dizzying 3-D, over at the studio's animation shingle, work is well underway on next year's hand-rendered cartoon The Princess and the Frog.

It's the first in-house Disney animation to bear comparison to the Pixar gold standard.

WALL•E 4 stars A computer-animated kids movie featuring a rusty robot that hardly talks, "WALL•E' has more to say than most other films this year. The G-rated movie from Pixar Animation Studios ("Finding Nemo," "Ratatouille" and all the other really good ones) offers a touching robot romance, visuals as artful as they are state-of-the-art, and vital messages ...

Disney animation takes a tentative step out of the shadows of Pixar with "Bolt," a winning 3D-animated action-comedy that marries the best Disney traditions with Pixar polish.

Disney animation takes a tentative step out of the shadows of Pixar with "Bolt," a winning 3D-animated action-comedy that marries the best Disney traditions with Pixar polish. Though this road comedy of a lost TV star dog doesn't rival the classics from Disney's computer-animation pioneer partners, it's the first in-house Disney animation - after the middling "Chicken Little," "The Wild" and ...

For the past three weeks the eighth grade art students at Central School have been setting the stage for a classroom project. Art teacher Marc Nelson started the students on a clay animation project, or “Claymation.” Claymation uses artist clay, a digital camera, a computer and video software to create a short movie.

Prosecutors in Quebec are evaluating the possibility of carrying out criminal charges against the founder of Cinar, Ronald Weinberg, and the former senior exec VP Hasanain Panju, according to Radio Canada.

Clay animated MARY AND MAX is set to open the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, according to THE SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE.

All movies -- whether they be low-budget movies, animated films or high-budget live-action blockbusters -- will be made in 3-D within the next five to seven years, predicts Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO, DreamWorks Animation.

Microsoft is bringing Chorion's online interactive storytelling application Time for a Story into the family of services offered to the 17 million-plus U.K. users of Windows Live Messenger.

HIT Ent. and Merlin Ent. Group have commissioned SD Ent. and Threshold Animation Studios to bring the innovative movie, BOB THE BUILDER AND THE ROLLER COASTER in 4-D exclusively to LEGOLAND family theme parks worldwide beginning in March 2009.

LACDA announces their juried competition for digital art and photography.

Disney Cinemagic, the premium family movie channel, has signed a multi-year deal with Sky to be the first Disney branded channel broadcast in HD in the U.K.

Suite Imagery has updated the pricing on their growing ActionBacks Animation Library.

Enter your animation to Cartoons on the Bay 2009 at www.cartoonsbay.com.

Disney Cruise Line will soon debut Disney Digital 3-D, a one-of-a-kind cinematic experience premiering exclusively onboard the Disney Magic and the Disney Wonder.

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will host Eric Goldberg on Saturday, December 6, 2008.

A new poster for 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios' Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs has turned up online. Opening July 1, the 3-D installment features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah.

Holiday Gala: The 10th annual Child & Family Services Holiday Gala "365 Days of Hope," 6-9:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Ocean Explorium, features wines and spirits from Cardoza's, local fare and live music by the Freeze Pops. $75. (508) 996-8572. 174 Union...

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all," asks the wicked stepmother in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The magic mirror did not lie, but now Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have developed a software that can make plain looks seem as good as that of a queen.