Lorna Cook
Lorna Cook is an American animator and director. She has worked as an animator for Disney, DreamWorks, Universal, and Sullivan Bluth Studios, and co-directed "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and won four... Read full bio →
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Pencils vs Pixels
A documentary told from the voices of the "second golden age" of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were trained by animation masters that created the principles of animation, they took animation to heights no one dreamed of - and then came the computer.
Waking Sleeping Beauty
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over.