Disney CEO Bob Iger has unveiled Pixar will soon start working at the 3rd installment of the Cars franchise.
March 27th, 2014
Disney CEO Bob Iger has unveiled Pixar will soon start working at the 3rd installment of the Cars franchise. There is no word on plot details/ a release date, but the film will likely reunite Lightning McQueen and Mater with a handful of other familiar characters. Nothing is official, but Owen Wilson will presumably return to voice the character of Lightning McQueen.
Legendary animator, producer and director Arthur Rankin Jr. Dies at 89
Arthur Rankin Jr., the animator, producer and director behind the whimsical holiday stop-motion TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman has died at the age of 89.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
