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• When you work in animation, there’s just no avoiding those Pink Slip Blues

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman returns with a column that discusses one of the lesser popular aspects of working in Toontown. And that’s the layoff that invariably comes whenever a new animated feature completes production Read More... Posted Monday, March 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, books, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, 101 Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, 1960s, John Lasseter, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, The Lion King, Aladdin, Disney Legend, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, Animation Building, California, young artists , employees , layoffs , Walt Disney Productions , Burbank lot , Floyd Norman, Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, Disney's Animation Building , old Animation Building, Disney artist , book, Disney animator , artists, assignment , animated film, young animators, feature films, Hanna-Barbera , pink slip, Hanna-Barbera Studio , animation professionals, Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1990s, Roy Disney, production, production team , film, animated feature film, studio, WDAS, Jim Fletcher, Freddy Hellmich, Hanna Barbera, Glen Keane, Ray Aragon, animated feature, 2010, Kem Weber, Beauty & the Beast, Vic Haboush, layoff, Hicks Lokey, Bill Keil, Amby Paliwoda, Disk Drive: Animated Humor in the Digital Age, My Animated Life: A seriously funny look at the cartoon business by Disney's first colorful animator, blurb.com

• Toon Tuesday: Funky Warehouse Syndrome

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman points out an interesting paradox of the animation industry. In that artists deserve the finest facilities, but it's sometimes better if they don't actually get them Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios, 1970s, Pixar Animation Studios, Glendale, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Toy Story, Animation Building, young artists , animators, animation artist, design , Walt Disney Productions , Burbank lot , Disney artist , Disney backlot , backlot , Disney animator , artists, young animators, Hanna-Barbera , Hanna-Barbera Studio , 1980s, story, 1990s, production design, production team , production designer, film, motion pictures, studio, Hanna Barbera