One of the movies on the many, many months in-the-works Best in Blu-ray 2012 series of lists, which finally looks to get posted this week. It's designed to be more helpful and worth looking at than the various "Best of" lists I saw across the internet that reflected little to no effort.
According to former Disney animator Tom Bancroft on Twitter, Disney gutted their hand-drawn animation division this afternoon, and laid off some of the studio’s biggest names: Nik Ranieri, Ruben Aquino, Alex Kupershmidt, Frans Vischer, Russ Edmonds, Brian Ferguson, Jamie Lopez and Dan Tanaka. Two of the animators who still have jobs are Eric Goldberg and Mark Henn.
These people are all considered at the top of their field. Sad news indeed.