Don Bluth first found his “laughing place” — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. Today an animation ...

Youtuber Matt Draper published a video recently titled The Disney/Don Bluth Animation War – The Story of a Rise, Fall & Renaissance, which is a deep-dive into one of animation’s greatest rivalries. In ...

Rachel Poletick is a writer for Collider. She studied journalism and film studies at Northwestern University. She is often found stumbling down research rabbit holes and collecting curious historical ...

The defection of Don Bluth and like-minded colleagues from Disney in 1979 is a well-worn story in Hollywood animation. Less has been said about a chapter in Bluth’s career that followed soon after: ...

At Don Bluth Front Row Theatre the other day, the man for whom the theater is named stretched out across a row of seats for a midday nap. When a stranger stopped by to discuss Bluth’s storied career ...

Don Bluth was just a teenager when he got his first taste of working at Disney. He would go on to work for the entertainment juggernaut for roughly 10 years, putting his special touch on films like ...

Animator and director Don Bluth at the Don Bluth Front Row Theatre in Scottsdale on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. A former chief animator for Disney, Bluth left in 1979 to create Don BLuth productions where ...

From an early age, El Paso-born animator Don Bluth spent his time tracing comic books and going to the movies to see Mickey Mouse and his favorite Disney characters come to life on the big screen.