Don Bluth first found his “laughing place” — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. Today an animation ...

Youtuber Matt Draper published a video recently titled The Disney/Don Bluth Animation War – The Story of a Rise, Fall & Renaissance, which is a deep-dive into one of animation’s greatest rivalries. In ...

Animator and director Don Bluth at the Don Bluth Front Row Theatre in Scottsdale on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. A former chief animator for Disney, Bluth left in 1979 to create Don BLuth productions where ...

In the animation world, Don Bluth was an anomaly. Like many with similar professional aspirations, Bluth dreamed of working for Disney, becoming a part of the illustrious studio behind such animated ...

At Don Bluth Front Row Theatre the other day, the man for whom the theater is named stretched out across a row of seats for a midday nap. When a stranger stopped by to discuss Bluth’s storied career ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If you grew up in the ’80s and ’90s or fell in love with the animated features from those decades, ...

For the seventh year in its 10-year existence, the Plaza Classic Film Festival has teamed with the El Paso Museum of Art to showcase the filmmaking industry and behind-the-scenes movie artifacts. The ...

It’s impossible to talk about Don Bluth without talking about Walt Disney. Bluth started as an animator and director at Walt Disney Animation Studios before founding a rival company that became Disney ...