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One of the most influential artists working in the medium of animation over the last half-century, Glen Keane brought his long-awaited debut feature to the screen just last fall. That film—the musical fantasy Over the Moon—certainly was worth the wait. Bringing splendid life to both modern-day China and a fantastical…

After years of helping deliver some of the more legendary Disney animated characters like Aladdin and The Beast, Over the Moon director Glen Keane knew early on he had found his next great animated character to help bring to life. “Fei Fei was a character that immediately, I was drawn to,” Keane says during the Netflix…

Glen Keane is a Disney animation legend whose work on such classics as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast has been widely praised, as was his Oscar-winning animated short Dear Basketball which he directed, as well as produced, with the late Kobe Bryant. It is no wonder I was expecting big things from his…

Former Disney animator Glen Keane is on board to helm Over the Moon, the animated musical retelling of the classic Chinese myth for Pearl Studio and Netflix. Slated for release in 2020, the pic follows a girl who builds a rocket ship and blasts off to the moon in hopes of meeting a legendary Moon Goddess. Audrey…

Kobe Bryant Oscar winner? The basketball great is one step further along to that improbable feat, with his first attempt at filmmaking since his retirement from the game and the Los Angeles Lakers has been shortlisted as a finalist for Best Animated Short this year. Ten films were named, and Dear Basketball…

“If you asked me when I was 10 years old if I would be here now—that I would be here—I would have said, 'You're absolutely nuts,'” Kobe Bryant admits, sitting down at Deadline’s Tribeca Studio to discuss his animated short film Dear Basketball. “But that's the beautiful thing about life, isn't it?” One of the greatest…

Veteran animator Glen Keane resigned Friday from Walt Disney Animation Studios. With nearly four decades of Disney experience, Keane worked on title characters for Disney movies including The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, Aladdin and Tarzan and more recently the Rapunzel character in Tangled. Earlier in his career at…