LEARN ANIMATION from DON BLUTH for a FULL YEAR!

[AGXStarseed]

For those of you who are unaware of Don Bluth, he's an "American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer and animation instructor."

His work originally started with Disney, with him working on Robin Hood, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, The Rescuers and doing the animation for the original Pete's Dragon - with his final work at Disney being the underrated Christmas short The Small One.
When he left Disney, he started work on other projects including Banjo the Woodpile Cat and the animated segments of the live-action movie Xanadu as well as creating the video games Dragon's Lair, Space Ace and Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp.
Bluth is most notable, however, for his children's movies good and bad including The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs go to Heaven, Thumbelina, Rock-A-Doodle, Anastasia, The Pebble and the Penguin, Titan A.E and A Troll in Central Park.
Here's the trailers for some of those movies:

Most recently, Bluth has succeeded in funding an Indiegogo campaign to get enough money in order to produce a full length movie adaptation of Dragon's Lair, which will be done with traditional hand-drawn animation.

Online classes are available, if you go to the Indiegogo page.

 

[Mr Allen]

He's done some good stuff over the years.

 

[GrownupGirl]

So where and how are you supposed to learn animation from Don Bluth? I am skeptical because ff something sounds too good to be true, it nearly always is. Besides, his more recent movies have tried too hard to be like Disney, mainly by being less dark and edgy, but turning out to be a pile of sugary nonsense. For example look at the sequel to the Secret of NIMH, where supposedly Timmy is destined to be the next big hero when none of that was mentioned in the original movie and he basically was just a poor sick kid whom his mom was trying to save. He only had one line, and was it as the end of of the movie when he tells Mrs. Brisby he's tired of being in bed all the time. Speaking of which, none of the rodents give Mrs. Brisby any credit for her past heroics in the sequel. They must be a bunch of sexist pig-rats and it's only because she was a female mouse. Go figure. And don't get me started on The Land Before Time's sequelitis.

 

[Mr Allen]

So where and how are you supposed to learn animation from Don Bluth? I am skeptical because ff something sounds too good to be true, it nearly always is. Besides, his more recent movies have tried too hard to be like Disney, mainly by being less dark and edgy, but turning out to be a pile of sugary nonsense. For example look at the sequel to the Secret of NIMH, where supposedly Timmy is destined to be the next big hero when none of that was mentioned in the original movie and he basically was just a poor sick kid whom his mom was trying to save. He only had one line, and was it as the end of of the movie when he tells Mrs. Brisby he's tired of being in bed all the time. Speaking of which, none of the rodents give Mrs. Brisby any credit for her past heroics in the sequel. They must be a bunch of sexist pig-rats and it's only because she was a female mouse. Go figure. And don't get me started on The Land Before Time's sequelitis.

Yes, most of the sequels to Land Before Time did suck, but the original wasn't that good to begin with IMO.

 

[AGXStarseed]

So where and how are you supposed to learn animation from Don Bluth? I am skeptical because ff something sounds too good to be true, it nearly always is. Besides, his more recent movies have tried too hard to be like Disney, mainly by being less dark and edgy, but turning out to be a pile of sugary nonsense. For example look at the sequel to the Secret of NIMH, where supposedly Timmy is destined to be the next big hero when none of that was mentioned in the original movie and he basically was just a poor sick kid whom his mom was trying to save. He only had one line, and was it as the end of of the movie when he tells Mrs. Brisby he's tired of being in bed all the time. Speaking of which, none of the rodents give Mrs. Brisby any credit for her past heroics in the sequel. They must be a bunch of sexist pig-rats and it's only because she was a female mouse. Go figure. And don't get me started on The Land Before Time's sequelitis.

Yes, most of the sequels to Land Before Time did suck, but the original wasn't that good to begin with IMO.

Bluth had nothing to do with sequels to any of his movies. Here's his IMDB page:
Don Bluth - IMDb

As for how, it's an online course. I did put up the information but the admins edited it because of 'advertising'. Here's the indiegogo page for his movie adaptation of Dragon's Lair: Dragon's Lair Returns
(The information you want about it is down the page in the updates tab)

 

[Theta.G]

Everything he will teach about animation is already being taught by Youtubers and other professional animators... for free. Not to mention his work is easy to study because... movies.

Spoiler

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The things people will do for those with authority and status are so interesting.

$731,172 USD raised...

"b.b.BUT disney! The symbolic Disney is so pervasive, successful and popular so... by association the animator must know something all the other animators don't right?



The impressive "secret" here (for me) is the way he's leveraged his name and his past employers. Past projects. If we have anything truly valuable to learn from that man it would be his business practices. Imo.

 

[Mr Allen]

Nobody will want to learn Disney, too many butt hurt Star Wars geeks who hate them because of Last Jedi.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Nobody will want to learn Disney, too many butt hurt Star Wars geeks who hate them because of Last Jedi.

Considering how nostalgic Disney's 2D animated films are - regardless of their current choices - I think there will be people interested in learning about creating 2D animation, whether they learn it from a YouTube video or from a former Disney employee who struck out on his own and made some impressive/decent movies.

For anyone who's interested, here's Doug Walker/Nostalgia Critic playing the Dragon's Lair games with Don Bluth providing commentary. I'm only linking it as there's a fair bit of bad language and gamer rage.
Nostalgia Critic and Don Bluth play Dragon's Lair 1 and 2.

 

[Mr Allen]

Considering how nostalgic Disney's 2D animated films are - regardless of their current choices - I think there will be people interested in learning about creating 2D animation - whether they learn it from a YouTube video or from a former Disney employee who struck out on his own and made some impressive/decent movies.

For anyone who's interested, here's Doug Walker/Nostalgia Critic playing the Dragon's Lair games with Don Bluth providing commentary. I'm only linking it as there's a fair bit of bad language and gamer rage.
Nostalgia Critic and Don Bluth play Dragon's Lair 1 and 2.

Oh yeah Disney's done some classics, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Dumbo, all the classics of the age that never get old.

Funny thing is though, all the classics always have a sad bit where the main character's Parent dies or whatever, even in Snow White at the end where the Dwarfs thought she was dead so they buried her, so sad even though it has a happy ending.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Oh yeah Disney's done some classics, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Dumbo, all the classics of the age that never get old.

Funny thing is though, all the classics always have a sad bit where the main character's Parent dies or whatever, even in Snow White at the end where the Dwarfs thought she was dead so they buried her, so sad even though it has a happy ending.

Yeah, Disney certainly has a fair few sad and scary moments in their films, but its nice when you watch them as a kid and you have that rush of happiness when things turn out alright at the end.

In regards to Snow White and just to correct you regarding the Disney version, it's stated in the film that the Dwarves couldn't bring themselves to bury her. Here's the screencaps from the film to prove it:

Not trying to be a smart aleck or anything - I promise.