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 ...

Here’s a rare treat. Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth discuss the future of animation on Nightcap, a literary roundtable hosted by journalists Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin. Here Bakshi and Bluth are ...

The animation duo behind favorites like ‘Secret of NIMH’, ‘An American Tail’, ‘The Land Before Time’, ‘All Dogs Go To Heaven’, and ‘Anastasia’ will appear at the 10th annual Plaza Classic Film ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...