By Jocelyn Buhlman
This holiday season, we’ve been celebrating 35 years of Mickey’s Christmas Carol throughout all of D23 Days of Christmas. As a special merry celebration of this milestone anniversary, we asked director and Disney Legend Burny Mattinson and legendary Walt Disney Animation animator Mark Henn to share some favorite memories from the creation of…
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If you can’t wait until December, when the world’s most beloved nanny will fly back into our lives, we have just the spoonful of sugar you need: an early look at Mary Poppins Returns in our winter issue of Disney twenty-three, the quarterly publication exclusive to D23 Gold Members. While visiting the London set of the Rob Marshall-helmed movie musical, we spoke…
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By Jocelyn Buhlman
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how Walt Disney Animation Studios animator Mark Henn created this year’s stunning birthday portrait of Mickey Mouse. We share a stunning time-lapse of the portrait’s entire progression from sketch to finished painting, and hear from Henn about what inspired the portrait design. He researched everything from past…
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By D23 Team
Since his debut on November 18, 1928, Mickey Mouse has been bringing the world joy through his adventures in movies, animated shorts, video games, theme parks, and more. There’s no better tribute to the mouse that started it all than a star-studded celebratory issue of Disney twenty-three, coming to D23 Gold Members this August.
The celebration…
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By Justin Arthur
Yesterday, D23 made its San Diego Comic-Con panel debut with Celebrating 90 Years of Mickey Mouse with D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, an amazing behind-the-scenes look at the world’s favorite mouse, with plenty of surprises!
Michael Vargo, head of D23, welcomed a packed room of fans—many of them D23 Members—a sea of mouse ears,…
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By Jocelyn Buhlman
We made our debut at San Diego Comic-Con today, and it’s only appropriate that our very first panel would honor the mouse that started it all. Fans who gathered in Room 6A came to celebrate Mickey Mouse himself, but also to witness the unveiling of a brand-new work of art: Mickey’s new birthday portrait! Titled “Spreading Happiness Around…
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In this final installment of the Nine Old Men video series, discover how Walt’s legendary artists inspired a new generation of animators to lead Disney filmmaking into the future. Join directors Pete Docter, John Musker, Ron Clements, and Chris Buck; animators Mark Henn and Dale Baer; and Disney Legends Burny Mattinson and Andreas Deja as they recall memories about…
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Disney animator Mark Henn shows us how to draw Simba from Disney’s The Lion King.
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Andreas Deja, Glen Keane, and Mark Henn share their favorite moments from the classic 1991 Disney film, Beauty and the Beast.
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Andreas Deja, Glen Keane, and Mark Henn share stories from the making of the 1991 classic Disney film, Beauty and the Beast.
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