…I really liked watching a lot of movies and cartoons, and somehow wanted to be a part of it,” Cometa says, calling from the Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank….
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Disney Princesses As Sailor Moon Characters
Disney’s newest animated feature Frozen brought us not one, but two new Disney Princesses. With the success of the film, the popularity of Disney Princesses have once again shot up….
12 Days of Princess: Southeast Asian Celebs Pose As Disney Princesses
…the classic princess image. A couple concepts I’ve seen include re-imagining Disney Princesses as different ethnicities, and even gender bending the princesses into princes. Well it looks like Disney Channel…
Disney Fans Get Ready! New Shanghai Park is Set to Open Early 2016
…Fantasyland, Treasure Cove, Adventure Isle, Mickey Avenue and Gardens of Imagination. Photos courtesy of disneyparks.disney.go.com/ Pledging to make the legendary brand and cast of characters culturally appropriate to the huge…
Pixar Director Peter Sohn Shares Insights Into the Creation of ‘Elemental’ at Press Conference
…the Steve Jobs Building Theater, from March 26, 2023 to March 28, 2023 at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif. (Photo by Deborah Coleman / Pixar) The story of an…
Q&A: Kimiko Glenn On the Delightful World of ‘Kiff’
…Kate Flannery, and more. With the first episode of “Kiff” premiering tonight on Disney Channel, and on Disney XD at 8:00 p.m (EST/PST) and hitting Disney+, Character Media sat down…
Disney announces AAPI scholarship for college students
…Disney’s upcoming animated film “Moana,” the film’s producer Osnat Shurer, Disney’s Chief Diversity Officer Paul Richardson and APIASF President Neil Horikoshi, according to a statement. “The Walt Disney Company’s generous…
Korean American Animator Will Kim Creates Moving Watercolor Tales
…who painstakingly draws every frame in a film and does not work as part of an animation studio. For a 2-minute animated film, he paints over a thousand watercolor stills….
‘Big Hero 6’ Stirs Controversy in South Korea
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Although Big Hero 6 hasn’t hit theaters in South Korea yet, the Disney animated film is already stirring online controversy for allegedly featuring images…
A Wish Come True: Asian American Disney Princesses
Many have grown up with Disney characters and movies, and there’s no doubt some of the more popular Disney characters are the princesses. Well, Filipina American photographer Kim Navoa and…
Legendary ‘Bambi’ Artist Tyrus Wong Dies at 106
…an “inbetweener,” drawing hundreds of sketches of Mickey Mouse. His work eventually captured the eye of Walt Disney himself, according to the Walt Disney Family Museum, which said that although…
Q&A: ‘Percy Jackson’ Star Aryan Simhadri on Making Satyr Grover His Own
…acting (“Adventure Time”) to Broadway (“Trevor: The Musical”) to a Disney Channel original movie (“SPIN”), he’s been running around the big screen since he first learned to walk. Even so,…
Ryan Potter on Voicing One of Disney’s First Multi-Ethnic Characters
Why can’t everyone stop talking about Disney’s Oscar-winning animated film, Big Hero 6? Well, during a time when the Academy Awards are heavily critiqued for a lack of diversity,…
Disney is on the search for a Chinese actress to play Mulan
Disney, which just announced a November 2018 release for its live action “Mulan” film, is on the search for a Chinese actress to play the leading role. The film, announced…
Indonesian Artists Create Must-See DISNEY x MARVEL Crossovers
…the Disney store, we don’t really see the two worlds interact. No matter how much we love both Marvel and Disney, we’ve never seen a Disney character step foot into…