The Disney 12 principles of animation can be considered as a basis for all animation. These rules of animation may have been discovered decades ago, but they remain just as relevant today for ...

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the “old men” of Walt Disney, made laws of physics just for cartoons. In the real world, the basic laws of physics were first described by Sir Isaac Newton and Albert ...

How do animators breathe life onto a blank canvas? How do they get us to laugh at Pascal, sympathize with Carl, and feel the longing of Ariel wanting to be part of your world? How do they make us ...

“The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation,” written by two of Disney’s Nine Men, is out of print. But that hasn’t stopped it from making its way to the Internet in GIF and video form. The 12 principles ...

Disney’s 12 principles of animation are as relevant for today’s interface designers as they were for yesterday’s dancing-broom illustrators. We’re not animating dancing brooms in feature films here.

Disney’s “Nine Old Men”—the nine core animators who worked directly under Walt Disney himself to create many of the company’s most famous animated features and short cartoons—are part of the company’s ...