DeviantArt's Hyung86 has been hard at work on his Disney University series which, as the name implies, depicts Disney characters as members of a real-world university—whether they were originally human or not.
You'd think Disney's Big Hero 6 would steer clear of controversy. That it would be a fairly innocuous movie. You'd think!
If you are wondering what a live-action Big Hero 6 would look like, my guess is this.
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Jin Kim, Character Design Supervisor at Walt Disney Animation Studios, drew this Big Hero 6 piece to express his gratitude to Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki.
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Whenever people discuss the greatest bad guys of all time, they usually go by evil deeds, or powers, or how many spikes are on their outfits. But what about their voices? Would anyone be scared of Voldemort if he sounded like Gilbert Gottfried? Of course not! So let's celebrate the people who make bad sound so good.
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Artist Igor Artyomenko reimagined Crystal Maiden, Traxex the Drow Ranger, Windrunner and Lina the Slayer from Dota 2 and they now actually look like characters with personality. Especially love Windrunner and that piece's color palette.
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Yet another new restaurant with robot servers has opened in China. And the owners seem determined to test Disney's patience with intellectual property laws. Why? The name of the restaurant is apparently Wall.e — just like the cute little robot worker from the 2008 Pixar film.
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In the first episode of Double Fine's new "Devs Play" series, Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle explores the challenges of turning one of Disney's most beloved animated films into a 16-bit platformer. I've learned so much.
Forget Chuck-e-Cheese-like animatronics. Those are already a little bit creepy on their own. Corrupting Disney characters, however, is a bit more unsettling.
For the holidays, Disney is projection mapping Star Wars at Yokohama's Dockyard Garden. Because nothing quite says Christmas like Star Wars!
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ORLANDO—(BTC @ $355.27) The hotel is a tomb of hopeful thinking. Built in the 1980s, the single tower of the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Hotel at Disney World juts up from the Orlando ground as if tectonic forces pushed skyward a sheet of pure, brown stucco. A soundtrack of Mickey Mouse anthems plays around the clock.…
This isn't a Kingdom Hearts screenshot—it's a 3D recreation of Maleficent's throne room by environment artist Andy Hansen, with hand-painted textures inspired by Disney's Sleeping Beauty. The project's one-year journey is chronicled in this six-page Polycount forum thread, and the full image can be found below.
Tekken, the Japanese comedian named after the fighting game, is back with another flipbook animation. This time, it's for Disney's Big Hero 6.
There's more to do than study at school. For example, you can draw amazing pictures on the chalk board. So, let's have another look at just that.
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Disney's new film, Big Hero 6, is a celebration of science and the joy of innovation. In the guise of a superhero origin story, it tells a smart, inventive tale about young science geeks who grapple with issues around the responsible use of technology. It's one of the best science-fiction films in ages. Minor spoilers…
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Disney princesses don't always have the best priorities—but normally, that's not actually your problem. Unless, of course, you happen to be friends with a Disney princess. Then things get tricky.
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I've long held that Nintendo is pretty much the Disney of video games, and that the incredible attention to detail put in games like Smash Bros. proves it. So really, a Smash x Disney mash-up is a match made in Final Destination.
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How much cheating do you think happens during a card game involving Hades, Jafar, The Queen of Hearts, Cruella, Maleficent, Captain Hook, and Ursulla? Everyone must have aces up their sleeves!
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I can barely handle this Li Shang version of Ash Ketchum. Heck, I can barely handle most of this parody of Mulan's iconic song, 'Make a Man Out Of You.' It's just too good.
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If only Frozen had come out during the 16-bit heyday of Disney video games. Then we'd have fond memories of this CineFix 16-bit interpretation, instead of Frozen Free Fall on the iPhone.
