I got to meet Don Bluth yesterday at the 2024 FanExpo in Philadelphia! I thanked him for the movies. Very down to earth.

I've just started reading his memoir "Sonewhere Out There " and absolutely love it. I highly recommend it. Don is a fantastic storyteller 📚

Don Bluth has gave me a ton of inspiration for most of my life. I would love to meet him one day C:

@djretro83

Жыл бұрын

I was fortunate enough to meet Don and Gary at an animation seminar in Phoenix 20 years ago. They are so down to earth and friendly. Don drew me a picture of Feivel, which I still have. He made a joke about it going up on eBay after I left the building. I said that it would never be on there. It hangs in the hallway with the rest of my animation collection. I kept my promise, Don! 🙂

@richardbeltran6641

Ай бұрын

Gaos 😿♾️💟💟💟☕

@richardbeltran6641

Ай бұрын

Excelente x3

Great video. These guys revitalized that early Disney magic outside of the studio when Disney had abandoned it. True masters of the craft.

Mr Bluth's right, there's no readon cgi and traditional animation can't exist side by side. And I think the money issue is a convenient excuse, studio's never wanting to change up formulas e.g. take creative risks. The problem I have with cg animated movies is that the designs look pretty much the same in every film. Same facial expressions, same movements, same color palettes, etc. The early Pixar's and later Dreamworks animations were distinct from each other but even they quickly became cookie-cutter because as Bluth puts it its a money problem on the producer's end not the artist's.

Gary Goldman and Don Bluth are wonderful artists and story tellers. Gary and Don are also very personable and have always been very generous with their time and talents. I hope they both get back into animation.

Forever my inspiration for drawing, Don Bluth and Gary Goldman.

@JR-ju3kj

2 жыл бұрын

Them,the nine old men from Disney,Chuck Jones,Ralph Bakshi,Richard Williams(he won two Oscars for his work on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'') and Hayao Miyazaki(often called ''The Japanese Walt Disney Of Manga'')along with many different great painters and many different great comic book artists are my inspiration for drawing(I'm an aspiring comic book writer and artist). Don Bluth and Gary Goldman are legends of animation!

I have never heard or seen the metronome trick. Fascinating!

I hope they are thinking about re-animating the tragically lost scenes from “Land Before Time” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven”. 🙏🏻

Please make more content. I really LOVE this channel.

Don seems such a lovely guy to spend time with and regail you with his colourful stories.

This was such a wonderful video loved listening to all of Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's animation stories so inspiring for 2D animation students, and the demo at the end was so cool, really happy I understood alot of what he was explaining gives me so much hope thank you for sharing 💕💜

Your my childhood hero Don!!! Really enjoyed this interview. Please make more…..

Don gluth needs to make a few more animations I want my childhood back.😭

@JR-ju3kj

2 жыл бұрын

Animation takes such a long time to do(traditionally hand drawn animation)and Don Bluth is 84 years old(he'll be 85 years old this year). If he's going to do more animated movies,he should do it soon,also,there's much less of a demand for hand drawn animation these days so it would be much harder to get a studio to agree to do a traditionally hand drawn animated movie.Basically,for someone to do a traditionally animated movie,they would most likely have to fund it themselves or get the funding sources outside of a major studio.

@orangeslash1667

2 жыл бұрын

@@JR-ju3kj The good news is that 2d is still alive in both Europe and Japan.

@adamwegner2520

5 ай бұрын

It’s still alive, in fact it’s making a resurgence. Check out “primal”from Genndy Tartakovsky. Lots of other examples from the past few years as well. There is going to be a big 2d comeback imo, we are seeing the first steps. There is a huge demand for it: people are sick of cal arts crap and cookie cutter cgi!

Don are amazing.

Great interview. Really interesting. Good to see Don and Gary again.

Quite the fascinating interview. I sincerely hope both Don & Gary get back into the business and revive 2D animation. I've seen some of the sketches for the Dragons Lair movie made by Don and they look fantastic.

@reginaldforthright805

8 ай бұрын

All about the money

I gotta say that the secret of nimh is the greatest cutest movie ever made by don bluth and Gary Goldman ever worked on and best of all it's don bluths masterpiece.

@oscarorozco8989

2 жыл бұрын

Land Before Time.

One of my favorite animating artists, I love the character designs they make

Don is still sharp as a tack after all these years. What a legend.

Great interview! Interesting questions while letting Don and Gary speak.

I have a LOT to criticize about Don Bluth's movies, but if I had to pick an animator to sit down, have lunch and talk cartoons with, it would probably be him. Someone like Hayao Miyazaki I would probably rather recognize from a distance.

@JR-ju3kj

2 жыл бұрын

For me,it would be The Nine Old Men of Disney(if they were still alive),Don Bluth and Gary Goldman,Richard Williams(the animator,not to be confused with the father of the famous tennis players,Venus and Serena) and Chuck Jones(if they were still alive)and Ralph Bakshi. With Hayao Miyazaki,I agree,I would rather recognize him from a distance.

@WillScarlet16

Жыл бұрын

Jones, definitely. Bakshi probably. But I don’t know about Williams- in his interviews he always struck me as a pretty intense, obsessive person.

@nonymous590

Жыл бұрын

@@WillScarlet16 why miyazaki from a distance?

@WillScarlet16

Жыл бұрын

@@nonymous590 He has a reputation for being prickly and intolerant - by a lot of his own animators' accounts, he's almost impossible to work with.

A question that I don't think ever gets asked of Don or Gary, is "what informed your style of animation performance?" Because compared to any other animation style or studio at their peak, between the 80s and early 90s, their work was highly expressive, broadly gestural; characters are often leaning in hard either into the camera or into other characters when they deliver the "O" or "U" sounds. When characters are flustered or flabbergasted, they'll rapidly wave their hands about. It's highly theatrical and operatic, like they're trying to play to a distant audience. And all of their motion arcs are bold and broad as well. Much bigger than is typical of Disney Renaissance work, and much more fluid than that of Tokyo Movie Shinsha, who around that same time were handling the animation on the first few seasons of the Disney Afternoon's initial line-up. By contract, Tokyo Movie Shinsha has very springy movement. Gesticulation tended to nod and bounce for emphasis in small curves. Even mouth shapes eased in and out in almost a type-writer fashion. This is especially evident in their film "Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland." So I've always been fascinated to ask if Don and Gary are not only aware of their unique approach to animation acting and motion arcs, but if they are, what in their early careers at Disney informed that unique approach, which then (of course) carried over into the way they taught their junior staff members.

I will respect CGI for what it is and admit it is pretty cool but I will always prefer traditional over that just because the movement and the feel of the story fits better in that way in my opinion

@JR-ju3kj

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Very well said.I prefer traditional animation over CGI,too but CGI DOES have it's purposes and like you said,I do respect it for what it is.

@positiveproductions6699

2 жыл бұрын

@@JR-ju3kj for me personally I just got frustrated when it flooded the market of movies like it's all you ever see and thankfully because of Japan and anime and manga we are starting to see a little bit of a resurgence of traditional animation I wouldn't even mind if they mixed it with CG like they did with Klaus on Netflix the Christmas movie that was really good

Please keep up the great work this is great content

What a legend! So glad you guys were able to get him

Love his art work!!!!!

A plus vid, glad I discovered this

Well at least we got 2D & 3D combined in the animation which is Mutant Mayhem

pretty amazing video!

Wonderful video! 👍

Legend!!

Don Bluth's great-grandfather was Helaman Pratt, an early leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of the founders of Prattville, Utah. One-time Republican presidential candidate and current junior senator of Utah Mitt Romney is also Pratt's great-grandson, making Romney and Bluth second cousins.

Now that I've had it explained to me...I GET IT! 🙂🙂🙂

Dragon Slayer movie will be a good one to watch

I couldn’t tell if the interviewer was nervous, bad, or both 😆

Is dragons lair coming to cable television?

I'm really confused. I thought the Dragon's Lair movie was going to be live action on Netflix? Does that mean the 2D animated version of the movie is not canceled or was that a false rumor?

@ScottsdaleStacker

2 жыл бұрын

In the comments it says “original airdate 2015” for the interview.

@biggamer18

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScottsdaleStacker Oh ok... so is the Dragons Lair movie still in the works?

@music39053

2 жыл бұрын

@@biggamer18 I think so

the interviewer is so awkward