Yesterday I saw James Cameron’s latest movie, Avatar. It was Christmas evening and the theatre was packed with people who had just spent the day unwrapping presents and and eating turkey. While part of me was excited and curious to see this movie, another part of me was dreading it to my core.

Somewhere, deep down inside of me, I knew as an animation fan what this movie would truly mean to the industry. It wouldn’t matter whether it made a gazillion dollars as Titanic had or whether it simply made back its gargantuan budget, even from the trailers I knew this was a movie that could represent the next evolution of computer graphics for Hollywood. Read the rest of this entry

For animation fans, I don’t think any one film has been quite so hotly anticipated as The Princess and the Frog. Disney’s (we really, really hope) triumphant return to classic 2D animation.

So, the big question is, does this film deliver on all that pent up hype and anticipation?

By and large, I would say it does although perhaps not in ways that audiences expecting a Little Mermaid or Cinderella story might expect. This is not your childhood Disney fairytale, but a tale that brings that fairytale into the modern age.

Read my full review of the Princess and the Frog on Keyframe