Follow Your Own Dreams

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Like every morning I woke up, got my coffee, started surfing the web and went to Cartoonbrew.com.  This morning however, I read that DisneyAnimation is cutting off several employees of their hand drawn animation division.   This was disturbing because the company's roots stem from hand drawn animation and Disney has released part of their heritage.  Recently, Disney also shutdown LucasArts division from Lucasfilms.  In addition, DreamWorkslet go some of their employees.  What does it all mean?  As technology continues to grow companies will cut more jobs.  I know how it feels to lose your job. It is depressing and you question your worth.

Return of the Big Cheese

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The Walt Disney Company has announced the return of Mickey Mouse.  Mickey will return to his roots with all new shorts that will air on Disney Channel and Disney.com.  The question is, where has Mickey Mouse been? In the 1920’s and 1930’s short length cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse would run before a feature film. Mickey Mouse and the shorts became so popular that people would watch a feature film just because it had a Mickey Mouse short.  Mickey’s popularity would take Disney to the next level and allow the company to focus on making animated feature films.  In the past twenty years Disney’s main star has been in semi-retirement, appearing in a few straight to video releases.  What happened to Mickey Mouse?