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I tried searching and couldn't find much much on it, so I thought I'd make a thread. Has anyone heard ANY kind of news on this lately? Last I heard, they were "finishing it up"... but that was months ago by now!

When Disney announced their lineup of projects in 2008, this is probably the one I was most excited about, besides Princess and the Frog... I would love to hear that maybe we'll be able to see it in theaters some time this year...

What's everyone's thoughts on this?

I haven't got a clue. Perhaps it will be released in front of "Tangled".

Does anyone have any idea of what happened to the short "Tick Tock Tale" that was supposed to be released in front of "The Princess and the Frog"?

Oh, and is "Glago's Guest" ever gonna be get a "mainstream" release in any form? I really wanna watch it!

Okay, I'm not sure what movie this, but....

What IS it? Is it supposed to be a new hand-drawn movie? Or a CGI one? A story about the Loch Ness Monster or a different Nessie?

DisneyJedi wrote:Okay, I'm not sure what movie this, but....

What IS it? Is it supposed to be a new hand-drawn movie? Or a CGI one? A story about the Loch Ness Monster or a different Nessie?

It's about the Loch Ness monster and judging by the promo title card released it's gonna be done in CGI. There's some info on WDAS's official site and that's about the only info that's been released so far (at least as far as I know).

http://www.disneyanimation.com/projects ... index.html

sotiris2006 wrote:

DisneyJedi wrote:Okay, I'm not sure what movie this, but....

What IS it? Is it supposed to be a new hand-drawn movie? Or a CGI one? A story about the Loch Ness Monster or a different Nessie?

It's about the Loch Ness monster and judging by the promo title card released it's gonna be done in CGI. There's some info on WDAS's official site and that's about the only info that's been released so far (at least as far as I know).

http://www.disneyanimation.com/projects ... index.html

no this one was hand drawn actually.

Yeah this has been confirmed to be hand drawn. I've read that it's supposedly pretty good, but it seems to have disappeared form the universe for a while now.

I've been wondering too what happened to all the new shorts. All we got so far was the new Goofy cartoon. I thought there would be something attached to The Princess and The Frog but there wasn't.

The shorts department didn't get hit by layoffs too did it?

Wasn't Prep & Landing originally a short that would be shown before The Princess and the Frog, but then Lasseter decided to make it a television special instead?

Barbossa wrote:I've been wondering too what happened to all the new shorts. All we got so far was the new Goofy cartoon. I thought there would be something attached to The Princess and The Frog but there wasn't.

The shorts department didn't get hit by layoffs too did it?

What is so crazy is The Ballad of Nessie and Glago's Guest were announced at the same time as How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (along with two other shorts being worked on), said to all have been completed consecutively, yet we've seen nothing of them. How to Hook Up Your Home Theater was attached to National Treasure 2 (originally it was going with Enchanted), Glago's Guest was planned to be attached to Bolt (the other project Chris Williams worked on that year but dropped at the last minute and banished to only bee seen in film-festivals; Tokyo Mater was attached to the 3D showings of Bolt a few weeks in), and The Ballad of Nessie has just been a mystery outside of Deters and Wermers directing with Baer, Deja and Henn animating (supposedly The Princess and the Frog stole their 2D animators, due to them being in short supply). When How to Hook Up Your Home Theater and the shorts program was first announced in 2007, CLICK HERE, they mentioned The Ballad of Nessie being halfway though production (I'm guessing that when the animators were taken, Deters and Wermers put it on hold, and moved onto Prep and Landing).

As for layoffs, I don't really think Disney's shorts program can have layoffs, as it just reuses Disney directors and animators in-between films. Since its a proving ground for the artists already there (Disney Feature Animation) it doesn't really have a set of talent devoted just to it to even have cutbacks. It has even been extended into the "Shorts Club," in which anyone in animation can pitch a short and make it on their own if they can get volunteers to help out (so its not just limited to Disney's current talent). That said, (besides Tick Tock Tale) there have been no announcements of new shorts since Lasseter's original announcement of the shorts program, CLICK HERE, and the five projects that were currently in production (The Ballad of Nessie, Glago's Guest, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater, [when still a short] Prep and Landing, and a spin-off of Meet the Robinsons). We know Tick Tock Tale was a new computer animated short, delayed when The Princess and the Frog and the other traditionally animated films needed more artists to finish on time, and we unfortunately don't know if/when it will ever be completed.

Thanks for all that info jpanimation!

I know that another short was in development and it got cancelled which involved the old gang of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy and was to be directed by Eric Goldberg.

"The Ballad of Nessie" Storybook Available for Pre-order:
http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Nessie-Kie ... 334&sr=8-1

The storybook will be released on May 3, 2011.

Synopsis:

In the bonny blue Highlands
Where the bagpipes play
Lives the creature called Nessie
…But it wasn’t always this way.

So begins the story of Nessie, the friendly Loch Ness monster who lives peacefully in a beautiful Scottish moor until one day, a developer named MacFroogle decides to build a mini-golf empire right on top of her home. Nessie roams the countryside in vain for a new place to live, and when she thinks all is lost, she begins to cry. She cries and cries and cries, until she sheds so many tears that she creates a new moor, providing a perfect home for her and her best friend, a duck named MacQuack. This charming jacketed gift book that retells the Disney Animation Studios short, The Ballad of Nessie, is sure to become an instant classic!

Someone on CartoonBrew commented that a silhouette that appears on the new "Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa" is Nessie from the unreleased short "The Ballad of Nessie".

A: What character is silhouetted at 4:15 (when Mrs. Clause talks about things she doesn’t want in the House)? It looks like Br’er Fox from Song of the South which would be a good jab at the Disney House for completely disowning that movie.

B: Yeah, but it’s not Br’er Fox.
It’s Nessie.

Source: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cgi/prep-lan ... santa.html

CONFIRMED: ‘Ballad of Nessie’ Attached to ‘Winnie the Pooh’
http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-news/movies/15109/

Walt Disney Studios has confirmed what we first speculated back in October 2010, that the Walt Disney Animation Studios short, The Ballad of Nessie will be the lead-in to Winnie the Pooh when it opens in theaters on July 15, 2011.

Narrated by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly and directed by the Emmy® Award-winning team of Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (‘Prep & Landing,’ ‘Operation Secret Santa’ and the 2007 Goofy short, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater), The Ballad of Nessie is animated in classic Disney hand-drawn style. Written by Wermers-Skelton, Deters, and Regina Conroy, the film is produced by Dorothy McKim and Tamara Boutcher, and features a musical score by Oscar®-winning composer Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille, Up). Animation on ‘Nessie’ was supervised by five of Disney’s top talents: Andreas Deja, Mark Henn, Randy Haycock, Dale Baer and Ruben A. Aquino.

Set in the ‘bonny blue highlands’ of Scotland, The Ballad of Nessie is a whimsical and colorful tall tale about the friendly Loch Ness monster, Nessie, and how she (and her best friend, the rubber duck MacQuack) came to live in the moor they now call home. Setting the adventure into motion is a greedy land developer named MacFroogle, who decides to build a mini-golf empire on top of Nessie’s home.

The short will make its world premiere tomorrow evening at the Anima Film Festival in Belgium. A book adaptation (written by Kieran Lachlan and illustrated by Andy Harkness) will be released on May 3, 2011 and is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Took 'em long enough. Hopefully, they stick to this and not pull it like they did with Tick Tock Tale (wasn't that supposed to be shown before Tangled?).

The first image has been released. Just Google it.

It really does look like it escaped from the Walt era.

Looks like the perfect short to go with Pooh!

So cute! Looks like I have more incentive to go see Pooh now.

Isn't her design very reminiscent of the Reluctant Dragon?

Sotiris wrote:Isn't her design very reminiscent of the Reluctant Dragon?

She kind of looks like the love-child of the Reluctant Dragon and Elliot.

Dragonlion wrote:She kind of looks like the love-child of the Reluctant Dragon and Elliot.

Yeah, I think you're right.