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Burny Mattinson, a Disney Legend who served as an animator, producer, director and story artist in his nearly 70-year career with the studio, died Monday at the age of 87 following a short illness. Disney announced his death on their official website.

The story goes that Mattinson, who was born in San Francisco in 1935, was transformed when his mother took him to see Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio” at the age of 6. He knew what he wanted to do. As Don Hahn, who produced some of Disney’s most beloved movies during the Disney Renaissance, said of Mattinson’s life: “His life could be a Disney movie: teenaged kid shows up at the Disney gate with his portfolio under his arm and stays for 70 years. He was our story sensei, a brilliant draftsman who showed us what it was like to grind on a story until it was right.”

Mattinson’s first...

Take a look at more new footage from "The Bob's Burgers Movie" animated musical comedy feature, based on the Fox TV series, directed by creator Loren Bouchard, starring H. Jon Benjamin as 'Bob Belcher', with Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Larry Murphy, John Roberts and Kristen Schaal, opening in theaters May 27, 2022: 

"...dedicated to animators Tuck Tucker and Dale Baer, who died before completion of the film, 'The Bob's Burgers Movie' features the further adventures of hamburger restaurateur 'Bob Belcher' and his quirky family..." 

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Take a look at more new footage from "The Bob's Burgers Movie" animated musical comedy feature, based on the Fox TV series, directed by creator Loren Bouchard, starring H. Jon Benjamin as 'Bob Belcher', with Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Larry Murphy, John Roberts and Kristen Schaal, opening in theaters May 27, 2022: 

"...dedicated to animators Tuck Tucker and Dale Baer, who died before completion of the film, 'The Bob's Burgers Movie' features the further adventures of hamburger restaurateur 'Bob Belcher' and his quirky family..." 

Click the images to enlarge.... ...

Take a look at more new footage from "The Bob's Burgers Movie" animated musical comedy feature, based on the Fox TV series, directed by creator Loren Bouchard, starring H. Jon Benjamin as 'Bob Belcher', with Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Larry Murphy, John Roberts and Kristen Schaal, noted as the first hand-drawn animated film to be theatrically released by Disney since Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Winnie the Pooh" (2011), opening in theaters May 27, 2022: 

"...dedicated to animators Tuck Tucker and Dale Baer, who died before completion of the film, 'The Bob's Burgers Movie' features the further adventures of hamburger restaurateur 'Bob Belcher' and his quirky family..." 

Click the images to enlarge.... ...

"The Bob's Burgers Movie" is the upcoming animated musical comedy feature, based on the Fox TV series, directed by creator Loren Bouchard, starring H. Jon Benjamin as 'Bob Belcher', with Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Larry Murphy, John Roberts and Kristen Schaal, noted as the first hand-drawn animated film to be theatrically released by Disney since Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Winnie the Pooh" (2011), opening in theaters May 27, 2022: 

"...dedicated to animators Tuck Tucker and Dale Baer, who died before completion of the film, 'The Bob's Burgers Movie' features the further adventures of hamburger restaurateur 'Bob Belcher' and his quirky family..." 

Click the images to enlarge....

Disney’s zeitgeist-grabbing Oscar-frontrunner, “Zootopia,” racked up 11 nominations in Asifa-Hollywood’s 44th Annie Awards race (including best feature and every other category except music), while Laika’s Japanese stop-motion fantasy, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” boasted 10 (including best feature and direction for president/CEO Travis Knight).

The Annie Awards will be held February 4th at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

Overall, Disney/Pixar dominated with 21 movie noms, with “Moana” nabbing six and “Finding Dory” getting three (including best feature for both) and Pixar’s lovely “Piper” leading the shorts category.

DreamWorks, meanwhile, scored eight noms: four each for “Kung Fu Panda 3” (including best feature) and “Trolls” (including character and production design).

In the new indie category for best feature, Michael Dudok de Witt’s “The Red Turtle” (co-produced by Studio Ghibli) was joined by Gkids’ “Miss Hokusai” and the stop-motion “My Life as a Zucchini,” “Long Way North” (from Shout Factory) and the Japanese blockbuster,...

In mid-March we showed you three new stills that Disney sent us from Walt Disney Animation Studios. .The Ballad Of Nessie,. an animated short appearing exclusively with the upcoming Winnie The Pooh. Today we have some new photos, along with some concept art, visual development paintings and character designs sketched for the film.

The Ballad Of Nessie and Winnie The Pooh will open in theaters in select international markets in Spring 2011; the U.S. release date is July 15, 2011. Be sure to check out Winnie The Pooh.s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/WinniethePooh

About The Short

Set in the .bonny blue highlands. of Scotland, .The Ballad of Nessie. is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she and her best friend MacQuack the rubber duck came to live in the moor they now call home. Setting the adventure into motion is...

Here are some new photos and concept art from the upcoming hand-drawn short film The Ballad of Nessie from Walt Disney Animation. The short was directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (the team behind How to Hook Up Your Home Theater and Prep and Landing). The score is from Ratatouille's Michael Giacchino and Scottish comedian Billy Connolly did the narration. The animation ws supervised by Andreas Deja, Mark Henn, Randy Haycock, Dale Baer and Ruben A. Aquino.The short will be attached to Winnie the Pooh beginning July 15th 2011. Click on the images below to check them out in hi-res:

Official Plot synopsis:

Set in the ‘bonny blue highlands’ of Scotland, The Ballad of Nessie is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she (and her best friend, the rubber duck MacQuack) came to live in the moor they now call home.

[1] Walt Disney Animation has released new photos and concept art from their new hand-drawn short film The Ballad of Nessie, which will be attached to Winnie the Pooh beginning July 15th 2011. Hit the jump to see the new art and remember to click on the images to see them in high resolution. [gallery order="Desc" columns="2" orderby="ID"] The short was directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (the team behind How to Hook Up Your Home Theater and Prep and Landing). Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille) provided the score, while Scottish comedian Billy Connolly did the narration. Andreas Deja, Mark Henn, Randy Haycock, Dale Baer and Ruben A. Aquino supervised the animation. Official Plot synopsis: Set in the ‘bonny blue highlands’ of Scotland, The Ballad of Nessie is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she (and her best friend, the rubber duck MacQuack) came to live in the moor they now call home.

Walt Disney Pictures has unveiled the first images from there upcoming animated short film The Ballad of Nessie. The images include some concept art and well as two official stills from the film, which is set to show before Winnie The Pooh on July 15th. 

Here's the full story breakdown and synopsis:

Set in the "bonny blue highlands" of Scotland, The Ballad of Nessie is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she and her best friend MacQuack the rubber duck came to live in the moor they now call home. Setting the adventure into motion is a greedy land developer named MacFroogle, who decides to build a mini-golf empire on top of Nessie's home. 

Directed by the Emmy® Award-winning team of Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (Prep & Landing, and the 2007 Goofy short How to Hook Up Your Home Theater), The Ballad of Nessie...

When Disney releases its new Winnie the Pooh animated movie this summer, playing in front of it will be a short cartoon. The studio has just announced to the public that we can expect to see The Ballad of Nessie playing ahead of the longer film.

Directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (who also made the Prep & Landing 'toon short) and narrated by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, The Ballad of Nessie will show us how the young Loch Ness monster and her best friend MacQuack found their way to the Scottish lake that they now live in. The short will be presented in the same traditional cel animation style as the Winnie the Pooh feature. Michael Giacchino (Oscar-winning composer for Up) is writing the score for the short film; Dorothy McKim and Tamara Boutcher (Dinosaur) are producing; and animation on Nessie is being supervised by five of Disney's top talents,...

Walt Disney Pictures has presented us with three new images for the animated short The Ballad of Nessie. The traditionally hand-drawn animated short will make its theatrical debut before this summer’s Winnie the Pooh on July 15th. As some of you may know, I am just a sucker for Disney animated films, especially the traditionally hand drawn ones, so this little opening film has made me quite excited.

The screenplay, written by Stevie Wemers=Skelton and Regina Conroy, is based on the origin of the Loch Ness Monster, named Nessie, and is directed by Wemers-Skelton and Kevin Deters.

The Ballad of Nessie has already premiered at Anima the International Animation Film Festival of Brussels, on March 5. At according to one screener the film is nothing short of spectacular (please forgive the shoddy grammar as this was translated from Dutch to English on Google translator),

The movie is not spectacular,...

Here is our first look at images from Disney's short film, The Ballad of Nessie. This traditionally animated short film is set to premiere before Winnie the Pooh, which arrives in theaters on July 15.

Official synopsis:

Set in the “bonny blue highlands” of Scotland, “The Ballad of Nessie” is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she and her best friend MacQuack the rubber duck came to live in the moor they now call home. Setting the adventure into motion is a greedy land developer named MacFroogle, who decides to build a mini-golf empire on top of Nessie’s home.

Directed by the Emmy® Award-winning team of Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (“Prep & Landing,” and the 2007 Goofy short “How to Hook Up Your Home Theater”), “The Ballad of Nessie” is animated in classic Disney hand-drawn style. Written by Wermers-Skelton, Deters and Regina Conroy,...

We don’t see many hand-drawn films anymore now that computers can do all of our work for us. Heck, computers can even make an entire movie look as though it was hand-drawn. Disney has been slowly bringing back these films, and has now released a few stills from their newest venture The Ballad of Nessie. This short was directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters and follows the story of the infamous Loch Ness Monster and MacQuack, his rubber duck friend, as they try to stop greedy land developer MacFroogle from building a mini-mini golf empire on their land.

The new short will play before Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, which is set for theaters July 15, 2011. Check out the images for The Ballad of Nessie after the jump.

Check out the synopsis for the film below.

Set in the “bonny blue highlands” of Scotland, “The Ballad of Nessie” is...

[1] Most of us won't be seeing Disney's new short, The Ballad of Nessie, until it comes attached to Winnie the Pooh this summer. But the film actually had its world premiere earlier this month at Anima, the animation festival in Brussels, and early word is that it's a charming tale in the classic Disney style. Read more and see three hi-res images after the jump. The Ballad of Nessie tells the origin story of the legendary Loch Ness monster, who turns out to be a rather sweet and gentle creature. When a land developer named MacFroogle makes plans to build a golf course over Nessie's home, it's up to Nessie and her best friend, a rubber duck named MacQuack, to stop him. The short was directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (the team behind How to Hook Up Your Home Theater and Prep and Landing). Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille) provided the score,...

We Are Movie Geeks are pleased to share three newly released images from Walt Disney Animation Studios. .The Ballad Of Nessie,. an animated short appearing exclusively with the upcoming Winnie The Pooh theatrical release, which opens in theaters in select international markets in Spring 2011; the U.S. release date is July 15, 2011. Be sure to check out Winnie The Pooh’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/WinniethePooh

Now that’s cute…she looks like a little Elliott from Pete’s Dragon!

About The Short

Set in the .bonny blue highlands. of Scotland, .The Ballad of Nessie. is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she and her best friend MacQuack the rubber duck came to live in the moor they now call home. Setting the adventure into motion is a greedy land developer named MacFroogle, who decides to build a mini-golf empire...