Hans Erni

Did you ever wonder which artists Disney's animators admired ?
From the conversations I had with them, I can tell you that the range was pretty wide. They all knew about the lively drawings of Heinrich Kley, and they appreciated the realism in Norman Rockwell's work. Frank and Ollie liked Edgar Degas very much, Marc and Milt were big fans of Picasso.
During early visits in the 1980ies to their homes, I noticed that both animators, Marc and Milt kept a framed print by a Swiss artist on the wall. 
That artist is Hans Erni, who turned 102 this year, and still draws and paints every day at his studio in Switzerland. His life work includes interpretations of classic themes as well as designs for postage stamps and posters.
When I look at his art, I see a drawing style that echoes the Renaissance.
Classically drawn figures within abstract environments. Marc Davis used this approach in some of his own fine art as well.

Here are a few examples of Erni's work, mostly from the 1950ies.












Which Christmas Character are You?

Simply answer this Question below to find out!  (You can even add your answer to your site - if you want to!)


Your Christmas Spirit is most likely, described as...?
(click on your answer)

1. Jolly, Happy, and love giving to others

2. an Adventurous Dreamer and Faithful Friend

3. Sometimes Selfish and Greedy

4. Cheerful and Angelically Sweet

5. A True Believer, and Optomist

6. Curious and Mischievous, yet very Clever

7. Always Singing a Christmas Melody



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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

November 2011 Christmas TV Schedule - Archived

For your Reference - This is an Archive of the November 2011 Christmas TV Schedule.

CHRISTMAS MOVIES:

NOVEMBER 2011


November 4, 2011 Friday

Christmas with the Kranks ... FX ... 1 PM
Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
All I Want for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
The Three Gifts ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 5, 2011 Saturday

A Family Thanksgiving ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Christmas with the Kranks ... FX ... 9 AM
An Old Fashioned Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM
Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM
Farewell Mr. Kringle ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animation) ... TBS ... 8 PM
Love's Christmas Journey Part 1 ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Love's Christmas Journey Part 2 ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
(check your local listings for Hallmark Movie times after midnight - due to "Daylight Savings Time Ends")
A Family Thanksgiving ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving ... Hallmark Channel ... 1 AM
An Old Fashioned Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 3 AM
The Nuttiest Nutcracker ... Hallmark Channel ... 5 AM


November 6, 2011 Sunday

Farewell Mr. Kringle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Gift of the Magi ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
Love's Christmas Journey Part 1 ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM *NEW
Love's Christmas Journey Part 2 ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM *NEW
Eve's Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Mistletoe over Manhattan ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Mistletoe over Manhattan ... Hallmark Ch`nnel ... 10 PM *NEW


November 12, 2011 Saturday

The Christmas Choir ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Our First Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
A Christmas Visitor ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM
Moonlight & Mistletoe ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
Mistletoe over Manhattan ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM *NEW
The Christmas Card ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
November Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Unlikely Angel ... CMT ... 8 PM
Lucky Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Air Bud ... HUB ... 9 PM
Lucky Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
Fred Claus ... TBS ... 10 PM
November Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
The Christmas Card ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
A Christmas Visitor ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 13, 2011 Sunday

The Night Before The Night Before Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Eloise at Christmastime ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Mistletoe over Manhattan ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM *NEW
The Muppet Christmas Carol ... HUB ... 11 AM
The Night Before The Night Before Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
Lucky Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM *NEW
Air Bud ... HUB ... 3 PM
Eloise at Christmastime ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Unlikely Angel ... CMT ... 4:30 PM
The Muppet Christmas Carol ... HUB ... 5 PM
The Santa Clause ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Elf ... USA ... 7 PM
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animation) ... TBS ... 8 PM
Cancel Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Fred Claus ... TBS ... 8:30 PM
Elf ... USA ... 9 PM
Cancel Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
While You Were Sleeping ... Lifetime Movie Network ... 10 PM
Fred Claus ... TBS ... 11 PM
While You Were Sleeping ... Lifetime Movie Network ... 2 AM


November 14, 2011 Monday

Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
The Ultimate Gift ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
The Santa Clause ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
The Christmas Card ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
The Ultimate Gift ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM


November 15, 2011 Tuesday

Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
The Christmas Card ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
The Three Gifts ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
The Town Christmas Forgot ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
While You Were Sleeping ... Lifetime Movie Network ... 8 PM
Battle of the Bulbs ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
While You Were Sleeping ... Lifetime Movie Network ... 12 AM


November 16, 2011 Wednesday

The Three Gifts ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
The Town Christmas Forgot ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Battle of the Bulbs ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Eloise at Christmastime ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Cancel Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW


November 17, 2011 Thursday

Farewell Mr. Kringle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Cancel Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM *NEW
Farewell Mr. Kringle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Mistletoe over Manhattan ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
A Season For Miracles ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM


November 18, 2011 Friday

Gift of the Magi ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
A Season For Miracles ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Christmas Angel ... BYU ... 2 PM
Silver Bells ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Lucky Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Santa Jr. ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
All I Want for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
Gift of the Magi ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 19, 2011 Saturday

Three Wise Women ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
The Santa Clause ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Silver Bells ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM
All I Want for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
Lucky Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM
Santa Jr. ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
A Christmas Wedding Tail ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM *NEW
Trapped in Paradise (*NOT for Children) ... FMC ... 6 PM
The Case for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Home Alone ... FMC ... 8 PM
The Case for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
A Christmas Wedding Tail ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Home Alone ... FMC ... 12 AM
The Town Christmas Forgot ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM
Trapped in Paradise (*NOT for Children) ... FMC ... 4 AM


November 20, 2011 Sunday

A Christmas Visitor ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
The National Tree ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
The Town Christmas Forgot ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM
Eloise at Christmastime ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
Once Upon a Christmas ... ABC Family ... 12 PM
Twice Upon a Christmas ... ABC Family ... 2 PM
The Case for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM
Fred Claus ... TBS ... 3 PM
Santa Baby ... ABC Family ... 4 PM
A Christmas Visitor ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Santa Baby 2 Christmas Maybe ... ABC Family ... 6 PM
A Dog Named Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ... GMC ... 7 PM
A Christmas Wish ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
"25 Days of Christmas" Video (60 seconds!)- The Band Perry ... ABC Family ... sometime during 8 PM - 10 PM Movie
Holiday in Handcuffs ... ABC Family ... 8 PM
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion ... GMC ... 9 PM
Holiday in Handcuffs ... ABC Family ... 10 PM
A Christmas Wish ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
The Perfect Gift ... INSP ... 12 AM
A Dog Named Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
The Note ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
The National Tree ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 21, 2011 Monday

The Santa Suit ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Eloise at Christmastime ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
A Carol Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
The Santa Suit ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws ... ABC Family ... 7 PM
Battle of the Bulbs ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
Undercover Christmas ... Lifetime ... 8 PM
The Search for Santa Paws ... ABC Family ... 9 PM *NEW on TV
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ... GMC ... 9 PM
The Town Christmas Forgot ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
Comfort & Joy ... Lifetime ... 10 PM
Undercover Christmas ... Lifetime ... 12 AM
Trapped in Paradise (*NOT for Children) ... FMC ... 12 AM
A Carol Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Comfort & Joy ... Lifetime ... 2 AM
A Grandpa for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
Farewell Mr. Kringle ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 22, 2011 Tuesday

The Santa Clause ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Battle of the Bulbs ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
The Town Christmas Forgot ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
The Search for Santa Paws ... ABC Family ... 4:30 PM *NEW on TV
The Night Before The Night Before Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
The Santa Clause ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
Thomas Kinkade's The Christmas Cottage ... Lifetime ... 8 PM
Unlikely Angel ... CMT ... 8 PM
The Christmas Blessing ... Lifetime ... 10 PM
Farewell Mr. Kringle ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
Thomas Kinkade's The Christmas Cottage ... Lifetime ... 12 AM
Our First Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
The Christmas Blessing ... Lifetime ... 2 AM
The Night Before The Night Before Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
Christmas in Canaan ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 23, 2011 Wednesday

Happy Cooking and Safe Travels...

Our First Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
November Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Unlikely Angel ... CMT ... 12 PM
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Gift of the Magi ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
November Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
Christmas in Canaan ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
Christmas in Paradise ... Lifetime ... 10 PM
Gift of the Magi ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Christmas in Paradise ... Lifetime ... 2 AM
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 24, 2011 Thursday

Happy Thanksgiving!

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Little Women (1949) ... TCM ... 7:45 AM
A Family Thanksgiving ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ... NBC ... 9 AM
The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS ... CBS ... 9 AM
McDonald's Thanksgiving Day Parade ... WGN ... 9 AM
The Preacher's Wife ... Lifetime ... 9 AM
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) ... TCM ... 10 AM
A Christmas Wedding ... Lifetime ... 12 PM
Deck the Halls ... Lifetime ... 2 PM
Will You Merry Me? ... Lifetime ... 4 PM
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
The Muppet Christmas Carol ... HUB ... 5 PM
A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (not for children) ... Lifetime ... 6 PM
Miracle On 34th Street (1947) ... TCM ... 6 PM
A Family Thanksgiving ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ... GMC ... 7 PM
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving ... ABC ... 8 PM
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas ... FOX ... 8 PM
Lucky Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Elf ... USA ... 8 PM
A Christmas Proposal (not for children)... Lifetime ... 8 PM
Happiness Is a Warm Blanket Charlie Brown ... FOX ... 8:30 PM *NEW on TV
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion ... GMC ... 9 PM
Silver Bells ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
Elf ... USA ... 10 PM
Holiday Switch ... Lifetime ... 10 PM
The 85th Anniversary of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ... NBC ... 10 PM
A Christmas Proposal (not for children)... Lifetime ... 12 AM
Eve's Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Holiday Switch ... Lifetime ... 2 AM
Lucky Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
The Town Christmas Forgot ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 25, 2011 Friday

Eve's Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Silver Bells ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Alvin and the Chipmunks ... FX ... 11 AM
Call Me Claus ... Lifetime ... 11 AM
A Boyfriend for Christmas ... Lifetime ... 1 PM
Santa Jr. ... Hallmark Channel ... 3 PM
Christmas in Paradise ... Lifetime ... 3 PM
The Santa Clause ... Hallmark Channel ... 5 PM
A Boy Named Charlie Brown ... ABC Family ... 7 PM
Jingle All the Way (Cartoon) ... Hallmark Channel ... 7 PM *NEW
Jingle All the Way (Cartoon) ... Hallmark Channel ... 7:30 PM *NEW
Jingle All the Way (Cartoon) ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
A Christmas Carol: The Musical ... Lifetime ... 8 PM
Hoops & YoYo Ruin Christmas ... CBS ... 8 PM *NEW
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer ... the CW (some locations) ... 8 PM
Olive, The Other Reindeer ... the CW (some locations)... 9 PM
The Elf on the Shelf: An Elf's Story ... CBS ... 8:30 PM *NEW
The Case for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8:30 PM *NEW
Snoopy Come Home ... ABC Family ... 9 PM
Elf ... USA ... 9 PM
Christmas Angel ... BYU ... 9 PM
Secret Santa ... Lifetime ... 10 PM
Eloise at Christmastime ... Hallmark Channel ... 10:30 PM
Christmas Angel ... BYU ... 12 AM
A Christmas Carol: The Musical ... Lifetime ... 12 AM
The Ultimate Gift ... Hallmark Channel ... 12:35 PM
Secret Santa ... Lifetime ... 2 AM
Christmas Angel ... BYU ... 3 AM
The Three Gifts ... Hallmark Channel ... 3:02 AM


November 26, 2011 Saturday

The Note ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Santa Jr. ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Richie Rich ... ABC Family ... 8 AM
The Case for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish ... ABC Family ... 10 AM
Home for the Holidays ... Lifetime ... 12 PM
The Ultimate Gift ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
A Christmas Wish ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM
A Boy Named Charlie Brown ... ABC Family ... 2 PM
A Very Married Christmas ... Lifetime ... 2 PM
Snoopy Come Home ... ABC Family ... 4 PM
Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Secret Santa ... Lifetime ... 4 PM
Unlikely Angel ... CMT ... 5:30 PM
Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
The Dog Who Saved Christmas ... ABC Family ... 6 PM
The Muppet Christmas Carol ... HUB ... 6 PM
The 85th Anniversary of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ... NBC ... 8 PM
Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Dear Santa ... Lifetime ... 8 PM *NEW
The Christmas Box ... INSP ... 8 PM
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ... ABC Family ... 8 PM
Elf ... USA ... 8 PM
Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
The Man Who Saved Christmas ... INSP ... 10 PM
An Accidental Christmas ... Lifetime ... 10 PM
The Perfect Gift ... TBN ... 10:30 PM
Richie Rich ... ABC Family ... 10:30 PM
Unlikely Angel ... CMT ... 11 PM
Dear Santa ... Lifetime ... 12 AM *NEW
Moonlight & Mistletoe ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Annie Moses Band - Christmas Special ... TBN ... 12 AM
A Christmas Snow ... TBN ... 1 AM
Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
An Accidental Christmas ... Lifetime ... 2 AM
Christmas Angel ... BYU ... 3 AM
Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM
Silent Night ... TBN ... 5 AM


November 27, 2011 Sunday

A Grandpa for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
A Christmas Wish ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM *NEW
Holly & Hal Moose: Our Uplifting Christmas Adventure ... HUB ... 9 AM
Snow ... ABC Family ... 9:30 AM
The Christmas Toy ... HUB ... 10 AM
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 AM
A Christmas Carol: The Musical ... Lifetime ... 10 AM
Snow 2: Brain Freeze ... ABC Family ... 11:30 AM
Moonlight & Mistletoe ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 PM
All She Wants for Christmas ... Lifetime ... 12 PM
The Christmas Box ... INSP ... 1 PM
Holiday Heist ... ION ... 1 PM *NEW
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain ... GMC ... 1 PM
Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 PM *NEW
Eve's Christmas ... Lifetime ... 2 PM
The Man Who Saved Christmas ... INSP ... 3 PM
Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas ... ION ... 3 PM *NEW
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion ... GMC ... 3 PM
The Christmas Card ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Call Me Claus ... Lifetime ... 4 PM
Golden Christmas ... ION ... 5 PM
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer ... Cartoon Network (east) ... 5 PM
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
The Road to Christmas (Not for Children) ... Lifetime ... 6 PM
Christmas Clause ... ION ... 7 PM
Christmas with a Capital C ... GMC ... 7 PM
Holiday Engagement ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM *NEW
Desperately Seeking Santa ... ABC Family ... 8 PM *NEW
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer ... Cartoon Network (west) ... 8 PM
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer ... the CW (some locations) ... 8 PM
Comfort & Joy ... Lifetime ... 8 PM
Have a Little Faith (Hallmark Hall of Fame) ... ABC ... 9 PM *NEW
Christmas with a Capital C ... GMC ... 9 PM
12 Wishes of Christmas ... ION ... 9 PM *NEW
Olive, the Other Reindeer ... the CW (some locations) ... 9 PM
Dear Santa ... Lifetime ... 10 PM *NEW
Holiday Engagement ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
Desperately Seeking Santa ... ABC Family ... 10 PM *NEW
Christmas Town ... ION ... 11 PM
The Christmas Card ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Comfort & Joy ... Lifetime ... 12 AM
An Avonlea Christmas ... INSP ... 12 AM
Holiday Heist ... ION ... 1 AM *NEW
Christmas At Maxwell's ... TBN ... 1:30 AM
Dear Santa ... Lifetime ... 2 AM *NEW
Mistletoe over Manhattan ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
A Grandpa for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 28, 2011 Monday

Silver Bells ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
Eve's Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
Gift of the Magi ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey ... ABC Family ... 6 PM
Silver Bells ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Eve's Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
On Strike for Christmas ... Lifetime ... 8 PM
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon)... ABC ... 8 PM
Shrek The Halls ... ABC ... 8:30 PM
The Night Before The Night Before Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
On Strike for Christmas ... Lifetime ... 12 AM
A Season For Miracles ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Gift of the Magi ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
Mistletoe over Manhattan ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM *NEW


November 29, 2011 Tuesday

Love's Christmas Journey Part 1 ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM *NEW
Love's Christmas Journey Part 2 ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM *NEW
A Season For Miracles ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
Mickey's Christmas Special ... ABC Family ... 6 PM
Mistletoe Over Manhattan ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ... CBS ... 8 PM
A Christmas Wedding Tail ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
A Carol Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM
Love's Christmas Journey Part 1 ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM *NEW
Love's Christmas Journey Part 2 ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM *NEW
A Christmas Wish (aka A Rootbeer Christmas) ... TBN ... 2 AM
An Old Fashioned Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM


November 30, 2011 Wednesday

A Carol Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 AM
A Christmas Wedding Tail ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 AM
The Night Before The Night Before Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 PM
All I Want for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 6 PM
Trapped in Paradise (*NOT for Children) ... FMC ... 6:02 PM
Rockeller Center 2011 Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony ... NBC ... Check Local 7 - 9 PM (airs longer for N.Y. area viewers) *NEW
Moonlight & Mistletoe ... Hallmark Channel ... 8 PM
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) ... FMC ... 8 PM
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa ... the CW ... 8 PM
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ... ABC Family ... 8:30 PM
Timepiece ... GMC ... 9 PM
Home by Christmas ... Lifetime ... 10 PM
A Christmas Wish ... Hallmark Channel ... 10 PM *NEW
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) ... FMC ... 11:30 PM
Our First Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 12 AM
Trapped in Paradise (*NOT for Children) ... FMC ... 1:30 AM
Home by Christmas ... Lifetime ... 2 AM
All I Want for Christmas ... Hallmark Channel ... 2 AM
Holiday Engagement ... Hallmark Channel ... 4 AM *NEW



CLICK HERE for the updated December 2011 Christmas TV Schedule.
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Horned King Pencil Test

This test was the first piece of animation I did after completing the Disney training program under Eric Larson.
Just for fun I  just added my voice to the scene. (30 years later).
Way back we had talked about the Horned King's face always being in the dark, you would only see his eyes. So for the test I didn't bother animating dialogue.
I didn't have a voice track anyway. I remember I acted the scene out in front of a mirror, it helped me with the foreshortening of his hand.
The bulk of the character's actual production scenes were animated by Phil Nibbelink.
For contrast I am showing a Tim Burton sketch of Taran and the pig Hen Wen....
brilliant!











The KIIRA EV Unveiliing (UGANDA)








The official unveiling of Uganda's first electric car was marked by the President of Uganda, HE Yoweri K Museveni taking a drive in the lime green, 2 seat ,right hand drive vehicle. The Kiira EV as is its name is a proof of concept that showcases the brave new direction the development team wants to explore in the further. The team is to develop a production concept 30 seat commuter bus by 2013.


More information about the development in detail on the following link


http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/30288-makerere-launches-electric-car-set-to-embark-on-minibus-kiira-ev-launch-supplement.html

Christmas Shopping on Cyber Monday

Happy Christmas Shopping!

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Merry Christmas!!!

Hallmark MOVIE Channel - Christmas Movie Guide

I thought I would do another posting for the Hallmark Movie Channel Christmas Movie Listings. I appreciate the e-mails I have received from all of you, (especially Susan - who sent me the list!) who do have the station, and would like to include it in the Christmas TV Schedule.

If you saw my previous post - then many of you already knew I had chosen not to include the Hallmark MOVIE Channel this year in the guide - to avoid confusion with movies playing on the regular hallmark channel - and because I thought many people did not have the station. Well, according to my recent poll - when I asked - 'If you had the Hallmark Movie Channel' - approx. 70% of you - said "Yes!".


So, for that 70% - I am including the Movies below -

November 28th-  December 23rd

Monday, November 28
10a/9c: Our First Christmas
12/11c: A Christmas Visitor
2/1c: The Ultimate Gift

Tuesday, November 29
10a/9c: A Christmas Memory
12/11c: The Christmas Visitor
2/1c: Christmas in Canaan

Wednesday, November 30
10a/9c: What I Did for Love
12/11c: Eloise at Christmastime
2/1c: The Christmas Card

Thursday, December 1
10a/9c: Silent Night
12/11c: The Santa Suit
2/1c: The Case for Christmas

Friday, December 2
10a/9c: The Christmas Star
12/11c: The National Tree
2/1c: Lucky Christmas

Monday, December 5
10a/9c: Finding John Christmas
12/11c: When Angels Come to Town
2/1c: Santa Jr.

Tuesday, December 6
10a/9c: Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe, from the Hallmark Hall of Fame
12/11c: A Season for Miracles, from the Hallmark Hall of Fame
2/1c: Holiday Engagement

Wednesday, December 7
10a/9c: The Santa Incident
12/11c: Our First Christmas
2/1c: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Thursday, December 8
10a/9c: A Grandpa for Christmas
12/11c: Silver Bells, from the Hallmark Hall of Fame
2/1c: A Christmas Wish

Friday, December 9
10a/9c: The National Tree
12/11c: Battle of the Bulbs
2/1c: hoops&yoyo Ruin Christmas
2:30/1:30c: Jingle All the Way
3/2c: hoops&yoyo Ruin Christmas
3:30/2:30c: Jingle All the Way

Monday, December 12
10a/9c: The Christmas Star
12/11c: The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
2/1c: The Santa Clause

Tuesday, December 13
10a/9c: The National Tree
12/11c: Mistletoe Over Manhattan
2/1c: The Santa Incident

Wednesday, December 14
10a/9c: The Christmas Visitor
12/11c: Timepiece
2/1c: Moonlight & Mistletoe

Thursday, December 15
10a/9c: Three Wise Women
12/11c: Christmas in Canaan
2/1c: What I Did for Love

Friday, December 16
10a/9c: Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle
12/11c: Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle
2/1c: Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas

Monday, December 19
10a/9c: What I Did for Love
12/11c: Our First Christmas
2/1c: The Case for Christmas

Tuesday, December 20
10a/9c: Ms. Scrooge
12/11c: The Santa Suit
2/1c: Cancel Christmas

Wednesday, December 21
10a/9c: A Christmas Visitor
12/11c: The Good Witch's Gift
2/1c: Farewell Mr. Kringle

Thursday, December 22
10a/9c: The Santa Incident
12/11c: The Three Gifts
2/1c: A Christmas Wedding Tail

Friday, December 23
10a/9c: A Christmas Memory
12/11c: An Old-Fashined Christmas
2/1c: A Princess for Christmas


Hope many of you will enjoy the Christmas Movies on their Channel, too!

See the Hallmark Movie Channel site schedule for more details:
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Impressionism 2.0

"As my work was often compared to the French Impressionist movement, I decided to follow their traces in Normandy. Filming on the same spots where Monet or Corot used to paint, I will create a kind of Impressionism 2.0" - Jacques Perconte



Impressions: Voyage en Normandie is the latest in a series of digitally manipulated landscape films made by Jacques Perconte. The 'actual' view (at least as seen through the camera lens) gradually pixelates and transforms into something more strange.  The films enter a kind of 'Impressionist' phase where light patterns and subtle motion in nature are slowed and attended to.  But the moving images soon start to resemble Symbolism, Fauvism and eventually Abstract Expressionism - trees turned into jagged patches of colour like a Clyfford Still painting, the horizon flickering like a Barnett Newman zip line.  'We no longer see the image of the landscape, we see the landscape of the image' Perconte says. Violaine Boutet de Monvel has written of a moment in Après le feu, filmed from the back of a train, where a gap appears to open up under the tracks, transforming the real topography. Perconte is interested in this re-imagining of the familiar - as he followed in the footsteps of the Impressionists, he sensed that their landscape was still present, despite the constant movement of clouds and restless activity of the sea.  This process tends towards the dissolution of familiar landscape elements into a vision of pure colour.  In Perconte's notes on Impressions he quotes Rousseau, losing himself in a reverie and feeling objectes slip away so that he feels nothing but the whole: 'Alors tous les objets particuliers lui échappent; il ne voit et ne sent rien que dans le tout.'

The artist has posted numerous Vimeo clips, photographs, production notes and comments on his own site and his technart blog. I'll end here with a recent film I'll be thinking of on my next train journey: a view of nondescript fields under a grey sky which briefly disappears as the train enters a cutting, only to re-emerge partially smeared away, as if to reveal the software behind this fake landscape of tree forms and wind farms, then progressively changes until we are left with just a few remnants of distorted colour before the screen goes white. 


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Early "Black Cauldron"

Here is a blast from the past. 
I have been going through my old application portfolio for Disney, and I am taken back to around 1979. There are life drawings, animal sketches and attempts at character designs. (I will post some of that stuff soon.) But even then I was already drawing (potential) Disney characters. I knew the studio was gearing up to produce "The Black Cauldron", based on the books of Lloyd Alexander. So I bought the books, read them, loved them. I started to imagine what characters like Taran , Princess Eilonwy, the Horned King and the witches might look like. 
I had a blast, because I had never done anything like this before.
Later, when I showed my design ideas to Disney, they liked them enough to photograph them and share them with other artists. I was flattered beyond belief.
So this is a small selection of a bunch of art I dreamed up for "Cauldron" before I started at the studio.


















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INDIA VS West Indies 3rd Test - Last over drama

India vs West Indies 3rd Test match ended in a draw and the big drama which came in the last over showed how under pressure Indian batsmen fails to perform.

Animation's Most Beautiful Squirrel

There are many great squirrel characters in the history of animation.
Tex Avery's hysterical Screwy Squirrel, Chuck Jones' charming squirrel from
"Much Ado about Nutting", and the list goes on.
To me the most beautiful and elegantly designed is the squirrel from "Sleeping Beauty". Based on rough character sketches done by Tom Oreb (first Image), it was Milt Kahl -again- who drew the final design and animated a few important personality scenes. The drawings below are actual animation keys, which were cut out and mounted on to this model sheet.
I purchased a single pose from it (the one on the top right) a few years ago. It had been separated from the sheet and then reproduced for Disney's  "The Art of Animation" exhibit, which toured the world in 1959 to help promote the release of "Sleeping Beauty".
To my absolute delight, the original model sheet (minus that one drawing) was offered to me years later, and I was able to complete it again.

The animation of the character is charming with a lot of spunk. My favorite scene is when the squirrel reacts to Aurora's resignation, that the prince exists only in her dreams. Milt animated the most heartfelt, sympathetic sigh...it's adorable!

Yet when you study these drawings up close, you'll find out that they are much more than adorable. There is a graphic perfection, a conviction that this is the best and ONLY way to draw this squirrel. And yet it doesn't come across as cold, calculated precision.
On the contrary, these drawings are so alive because Milt thought about appeal,charm and personality when he was doing them.

A little character with a small role, but a high point in the career of Milt Kahl.








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