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 ...

If you’re 50 or younger, there’s a strong chance one film or another by Don Bluth did a number on your childhood. Bluth is a living, breathing national treasure of American animation whose career ...

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 ...

In the animation world, Don Bluth was an anomaly. Like many with similar professional aspirations, Bluth dreamed of working for Disney, becoming a part of the illustrious studio behind such animated ...

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 ...

Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but ...

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 ...