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Disney's The Princess and the Frog ended an animation era but became a masterpiece

Disney princesses have a bad reputation for being damsels in distress, but the House of Mouse actually remedied this, and as early as 2009. Loosely based on The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker, The ...
Twin Cities Daily Planet

The Frog and the Tiger: Hmong animation for children

“For the first time in Hmong history, an original Hmong animated feature [with] friends, culture, battle, [and] danger. Split Horn Studios Presents: The Frog and the Tiger July 2006.” These are the ...
Seattle Times

‘The Princess and the Frog’: Old-school animation, modern heroine charm down on the bayou

Disney cartoons have given us a Native American princess (Pocahontas), a Chinese heroine (Mulan), several European-based fairy-tale princesses (Snow White, Cinderella) and a leading lady who’s half ...
NJ.com

'The Princess and the Frog' review: Hand-drawn animation, Big Easy setting offer nostalgic charm

Five years ago, the folks at Disney announced that they were getting out of the hand-drawn, "2D" animation business — and seeing that their current release was the utterly awful "Home on the Range," ...
World Screen

Telescreen Scores Presales on Frog & Friends Animation

European presales on its new animated series Frog & Friends. The series is based on the award-winning Frog books by Max Velthuijs and is aimed at kids 4 to 7. Presales have been concluded with KRO in ...
Billings Gazette

Hand-drawn animation jumps again with Disney’s ‘Frog’

The last time we heard from the hand-drawn animators at Disney, they offered up the barnyard tale “Home on the Range.” The 2004 ’toon was so forgettable it seemed as though it really might be the last ...