#don bluth

[aenslem]

ANASTASIA 1997 || Dir: Don Bluth; Gary Goldman

[life-in-toontown]

AMEN 🙌

[miraclemango]

got told other people would like having a look-see at this, so!

The Don Bluth Studios Animation Archive was donated to Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005. The collection includes all aspects of the animation production pipeline, including concept art, color models, animation cels, animation drawings, story sketches, and other materials created by Don Bluth Productions and later iterations of this company. Also included in the collection are administrative files, legal documents, musical scores, scripts, and publicity-related materials.

The archive is HUGE. While the library itself isn't open to the public, what's been digitized is available for anyone to look through. If you're interested in the work of Don Bluth's studio or just animation history in general, I 100% recommend taking some time to look around.

productions include:

All Dogs Go to Heaven, 1989

An American Tail, 1986

Anastasia, 1997

Banjo the Woodpile Cat, 1979

Dragon's Lair, 1983

Dragon's Lair II, 1991

Dragon's Lair 3D, 2002

Rock-a-Doodle, 1992

Space Ace, 1984

The Secret of NIMH, 1982

The Pebble and the Penguin, 1995

Thumbelina, 1994

Titan A.E., 2000

Unrealized productions (concepts)

[prokopetz]

You know, even apart from the intricate worldbuilding about the talking rodents and what their deal is, the part of The Secret of NIMH that's like "working single mom trying to obtain medical treatment for her sick child discovers that her late husband was basically a high-level Dungeons & Dragons character and never told her about any of it, and she keeps tripping over elements of his unreasonably complicated backstory whose context and significance are never fully explained to the audience because the particulars aren't relevant to her journey" is a really fun premise all on its own.

[sparemoon]

don bluth put the RUSSIAN HISTORY DOWN!!!!! (i love this movie)

[coditoons]

If you were a cartoon character, which of these 12 animation styles would you want to be designed in?

Aardman Animations

Chowder (complete with unmoving patterns on your clothes)

90s Sailor Moon

VeggieTales

Rankin-Bass (specifically their stop-motion)

Hanna-Barbera

Jorge Gutierrez (El Tigre, Book of Life)

Don Bluth

Ed Edd n' Eddy

Those old Charlie Brown animations

Humongous Entertainment

Chuck Jones

Voting ended onMay 27, 2024

I only had 12 spots,

so these are the 12 I picked. If you aren't happy, you're always welcome to make your own poll 🤷

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen The Land Before Time (1988)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onApr 12

[dmitryanya]

i need everyone to understand that anastasia is constantly playing on loop in my brain (please look at this at full size because tumblr killed the quality)

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