Hand Drawn Animation Sure Is Beautiful, Even For This Silly Ol Bear...

Merrick here...
Next Summer, WINNIE THE POOH WILL return to the big screen in a new, hand-drawn animated film from Disney.

Veteran Disney animator/storyman/director Burny Mattinson (a key animator on the 1974 featurette “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!”) serves as senior story artist, with a dynamic young directing duo—Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall—at the helm.

...says Disney's press material about the project. Glad to see Disney working on occasional hand-drawn projects, although I felt similar effort was largely betrayed by crappy pacing and uninteresting story movements on their recent PRINCESS AND THE FROG picture. Hopefully The Powers That Be learned some critical lessons from that one, and will apply them here... Eeyore bumping into that tree is pretty funny...
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