So the Tail goes on By Stephen Dunne The Sullivan Bluth Studio came to Ireland initially in 1985 and put the finishing touches to the cel painting of An American […]

The editorial department itself is equipped with multiple viewing and editorial facilities, including a two-channel Steinbeck, two preview (large screen) Moviolas and standard Moviola equipment. Additional services provided by the […]

The job of keeping a look-out for errors goes to the ‘Music Room’. This name stems from the early days of the Walt Disney studio when music was played here, […]

In the animation department the story is divided up scene-by-scene and distributed among the character animators. The animators’ task is to bring movement, personality and life to the character he […]

The studio trains their own animators and this could take anything from three to five years. Another five years would generally be needed to reach a proficient standard as a […]

Although each second of film consists of twenty-four frames, in some cases if the action is very fast the animation can be shot on ‘twos’, that is two frames per […]

The latest film to be released in the U.S.A., All Dogs go to Heaven, opened in November 1989 and grossed $14.4 million in its first three weeks. It tells the […]