W. R. Miller
I've worked primarily in the entertainment industry as an animator, writer and storyboard artist, with two Emmy honors on The Simpsons. My articles have been published in Starlog, Comics Scene, Comics Buyer’s Guide, Animation Magazine, Animato! and the online Animation World Magazine. I have just completed the five-volume Batman: The Animated Interviews, published by BearManor Media. Works-in-progress: The Justice Dragon; The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. Further details are presented at my webpage, https://wrmilleronline.com/about/
Benjamin Franklin Hough presents Thanksgiving Proclamations
Whatever tends to strengthen the ties of kindred and friendship, or to promote offices of kindness and charity, claims the attention and favor of all good citizens; and among the very few usages which deserve the title of National Customs, our Thanksgiving festival may in this sense be ranked as first./ As such, its origin […]
Tom Bancroft, Animation Master
Photo © W.R. Miller. To help promote the soon-to-be-released live action Pete’s Dragon, Disney has released The Art of Disney’s Dragons, published on June 28. As one would expect, the book showcases designs, drawings, paintings and CG renderings of all of Disney’s dragons from The Reluctant Dragon to both hand-drawn and CG versions of Elliot. […]
Promoting Pete’s Dragon
This week it appears Disney is pulling out all the stops in promoting its new live-action Pete’s Dragon, unleashing a torrent of videos on the web and social media. Here are a few videos in chronological order of release: Disney’s Pete’s Dragon Trailer https://youtu.be/A7vWCd2Jj-U Uploaded on June 14, 2016 Elliot in the Air July 4, […]
How to Fly Your Dragon
The Creative Talent Network has uploaded a video in which Cal State San Bernardino biology professor Stuart Sumida and Simon Otto, Head of Character Animation for How to Train Your Dragon, discuss developing real-life references on how dragons could fly. The presentation can be viewed here. Mark Muckenfuss wrote about Sumida’s animated career for the […]
T-Rexes Celebrate America’s Independence Day
Happy 4th of July from LiberT-Rex and TrexTuesdays! Uploaded June 28, 2016 And from JohnnysTube: https://youtu.be/Zi566d94GdY Uploaded July 2, 2016
President John Quincy Adams’s 4th of July address, 1837, Part 3: The Separation of People
An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request, on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837. By John Quincy Adams. (Continued) But this is not the reason for which you are here assembled. The question of right and wrong involved in the resolution of North […]
President John Quincy Adams’s 4th of July address, 1837, Part 2: First purpose of the Declaration of Independence
An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request, on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837. By John Quincy Adams. (Continued) For the second object of the Declaration, the assumption among the powers of the earth of the separate and equal station, to which the […]
President John Quincy Adams’s 4th of July address, 1837, Part 1
An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request, on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837. By John Quincy Adams. “Say ye not, A Confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say A Confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.” Isaiah […]
Pete’s Puppy
On February 15, 2016, Disney released their teaser trailer for their new version of Pete’s Dragon: And on April 15, 2016, Entertainment Weekly published an image of what Elliot the Dragon looked like: This is a dragon? My curiosity brought me over to Amazon.com to see what books would be published as a tie-in. One […]
Meet the Dragon Who Tweets
Not so long ago, in what we colloquially call The Real World, a boy named James tended to ignore advice from his parents, his grandparents and his aunt. He would do things like give away his own presents to others. “How can we get him to listen?” his aunt Theresa wondered. Then an idea occurred […]
