Don Bluth
American animator
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Disney Company
- In Disney Company: Live-action films and later decline
Top animators such as Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, and John Pomeroy left the company in 1977, and Disney’s subsequent efforts, such as the animated feature The Fox and the Hound (1981), failed, in the eyes of many, to capture what they thought of as the magic of the studio’s…
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history of animation
- In animation: Contemporary developments
…be produced, most notably by Don Bluth (An American Tale, 1986), a Disney dissident who moved his operation to Ireland, and Brad Bird, a veteran of Simpsons minimalism who progressed to the spectacular full technique of The Iron Giant (1999). As digital imaging techniques continue to improve in quality and…
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