Welcome!

Welcome to the 24FPS blog! This will hopefully be a place for animation professionals, novices, fans, and any curious to come a see the amazing world of animation. 

I will be posting some animation histories, biographies, and even some art lessons in the coming weeks, and I hope you will stick around for interesting animation fandom.

We’re going to be starting with a general introduction to what is known as the “Disney Renaissance”. A time when mainstream animation was reinvigorated and revitalized. In the early nineties, many thought Disney animation was on its way down, with Don Bluth animation starting to take over. We’ll talk about how that didn’t happen and what prevented it.

Jumping from that, we’ll go over to Don Bluth, a young, hotshot Disney animator who decided to abandon the studio in the eighties. He saw the direction the studio was headed in the eighties and decided it wasn’t where he wanted to go, so he packed up his stuff, and a handful of top animators, and started his own studio with his own vision.

We’ll also sprinkle in other animators working during this time with nothing to do with the big studios, animators trying to use the medium to create something fresh and new outside of the big studios. Animators like Ralph Bakshi who made the risqué’ Frtiz the Cat, also made the animated Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies. Many years before Peter Jackson got his hands on the series, Ralph Bakshi saw an opportunity to bring this fantastic world to life with the medium of animation. He had done mainly personal and independent projects, so this was a chance to work with a big studio, and ore importantly, a big budget. It did not work out as he hoped it would have, but he was able to make huge leaps in animation technology, most of which are not appreciated today.