In this clip below, Simon Otto, the head of character animation on the upcoming How to Train Your Dragon feature, discusses how he approached his work on the film. The CG feature from DreamWorks Animation is in theaters on March 26, 2010.

To produce Wes Anderson’s stop-motion feature Fantastic Mr. Fox, a total of 29 film units were going at once at 3 Mills Studio in London. They used Stage C, where much of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride was filmed. Animators on the film brought with them years of experience on other stop-motion features. Daniel Alderson worked on $9.99, Andy Biddle animated on Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and artists Brian Leif Hansen, Malcolm Lamont, Jens Jonathan Gulliksen, Anthony Farquhar-Smith and Peter Dodd (amongst others) all animated on Corpse Bride. Lastly, animation supervisor Mark Waring worked on Corpse Bride, so the easy answer to “Who Animated Fantastic Mr. Fox?” is – much of the crew from Corpse Bride.

Here’s some behind-the-scenes clips to give you an idea of how it’s pulled together:

Argentinian studio Hookup Animation produced this little behind-the-scenes video illustrating their compositing process. They insert a giant robot into some-live action footage. A complicated process, and the end result really delivers.

Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. is out on Blu-ray this week, and the Disney/Pixar team has released this recollection experience with director Pete Docter and some of his team.

While Disney/Pixar’s Up is still in theaters around the world (it’s the #1 movie in the UK and Ireland right now), the CG film released on DVD and Blu-Ray today here in the US. Here’s behind-the-scenes vignette that looks at the voice of the young Wilderness Explorer, Russell.

Earlier this month it was announced that Nick at Nite’s new stop-motion series Glenn Martin, DDS would be back for a second season, with 20 new episodes. The series eminates from Michael Eisner’s Tornante Animation, and it’s produced by Cuppa Coffee. My good friend Dan Wolf and his family recently visited the studio and snapped a few Lineboil Exclusive photos! Thanks, Dan. Nothing earth-shattering, but it’s always fun to look behind the scenes. And if you didn’t already see it, we posted an interview with series co-creator Eric Fogel last month.

Here’s a nice Halloween treat from the supervising animator on Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming 2D feature The Princess and the Frog. Eric Goldberg, the supervising animator on the Genie from Aladdin, oversaw the animation of the jazz-loving alligator Louis in this new film. Around the 1:30 mark in this video below, Goldberg draws him for us. The traditionally animated film is in theaters on December 11th.