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• Toon Tuesday: Remembering 2-C

  Forget about 3-D. Disney Legend Floyd Norman revisits a location at Walt Disney Studios where lots of classic animation was created Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:00 AM | 10 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney, 101 Dalmatians, San Diego, Comic Con International, 1950s, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Jungle Book, Animation Building, shorts , animated film, shorts unit, The Great Mouse Detective, 2009, 1966, Jack Hannah, Dick Kinney, Roy Williams, Al Bertino, storyboarding, Woolie Reitherman, Basil Davidovitch, Dale Barnhart, Ray Aragon, Sammie June Lanham, Betty Gossin, Vance Gerry, Al Wilson, Sylvia Niday, Dick Lucas, Eric Cleworth, music room, the music room, 2-C, The Black Cauldron, directorial units, Joe Hale, Riverside Drive, Mark Evanier, Quick Draw, Scott Shaw!, panel, Comic-Con, Comic-Con International, convention, San Diego Convention Center, Sergio Aragones, animated feature

• Toon Tuesday : Here's to the real survivors

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman pays tribute to all those animation veterans who have hung in there through the tough times Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, traditional animation, CG, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, 101 Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, Hollywood, Glendale, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Legend, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Afrokids.com, Son of Faster Cheaper, Animation Building, 1956, television show, shorts , young artists , animators, animation artist, director, layoffs , Walt Disney Productions , writer/director , television , television series , Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, Disney artist , Disney animator , artists, young animators, Survivor, desert island , craft services , drawing board, shorts unit, Rick Gonzales, cutbacks, layout artist , character designer , Hanna-Barbera , Ruby-Spears, pink slip, industry veterans , MGM Animation , Visual Arts , Bob Clampett, Bob Clampett Studio , 3400 Cahuenga Blvd , Hanna-Barbera Studio , television animation , Filmation, 1980s, Granada Hills , Dave Michener, storyman, The Great Mouse Detective, Michael Eisner , Orlando , CGI , digital bandwagon , job security, animation professionals, third world potentates, overpaid gig, old survivor, real survivors

• Caught in "The Parent Trap" -- Part I

  In the first installment of this new two-part series, Disney Legend Floyd Norman describes what it was like to visit the set of this 1961 David Swift film Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, 101 Dalmatians, 1960s, Hollywood, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, Disney Legend, D-Wing , Animation Building, Frank Thomas, Disney Commissary , California, television show, director, Disney history , The Parent Trap , 1960, Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills , Pollyanna, A Walt Disney Production , Walt Disney Productions , writer/director , Disney geek, Bud Swift , Minneapolis, Minnesota , 1940s , United States Air Force , radio , comedy writing , 1949, television , scriptwriting, screenplay, Philco Television Playhouse , Playhouse 90, The Rifleman, Wagon Train , television series , Mr. Peepers, Wally Cox, Jamie, 1961, Petticoats and Blue Jeans , sound stage, Maureen O'Hara , Brian Keith, Leo G Carroll, Charlie Ruggles, Nancy Kulp , Frank DeVol , on location, Northern California, Stage Two, Director of Photography , Hollywood veteran , Lucien Ballard , Old Hollywood, special effects , screen double, special photographic technique , camera optics , sodium matte process , compositing , on-camera double, redhead , Burbank lot , studio commissary, Robert Keith , Julie Andrews , actor, press agent , handler, motion picture