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• Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

  As stories continue to circulate about the Head of Apple's health problems, Disney Legend Floyd Norman looks back to the 1960s. When another company you may know suddenly had to deal with leadership & succession-related issues Read More... Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 12:00 AM | 9 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, 1960s, Pixar Animation Studios, Diane Disney Miller, Apple , artists, Walt Disney World, 1990s, pop culture, innovative, popular culture, Phil Schiller, vice president, keynote, keynote address, San Francisco, MacWorld, MacWorld Expo, MacWorld 2009, Steve Jobs, Steven P Jobs, Epcot, June, Ron Miller, CEO, Silverado Vineyards, Napa, Napa Valley, Silicon Valley, garage, innovative products, leader, legacy, 1966, visionary leaders

• The Elephant in the Room -- Part 2

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman concludes his look at "Wild Life," the CG project that Walt Disney Animation Studios developed but ultimately abandoned in late 2000 Read More... Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: Disney, movies, CG, Hollywood, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Apple , Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, Afrokids.com, design , artwork , development , television , Disney movie, Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, music , sketches , assignment , animated film, sequence, character designer , storyman, elephant , diva, story, digital , Walt Disney Feature Animation, 2000, story team, Wild Life, storyboard, fashion mavens, fashion maven, glitzy, Howard Baker, satirical, fashion, Kitty Glitter, Ella the Elephant, sketch, production design, green-lit, screening, Roy Disney, production, sequences, production team , Techno Rock, costume designer, H.B. (Buck) Lewis , Craig Kellman, production designer, Hans Bacher , screenwriter, scratch track, talent, character actor , Alan Cumming, Red Pittstain, Academy Award winner , Kathy Bates, Magda, Debra Messing , pop diva, story issues, color storyboards , polish, computer applications, Adobe PhotoShop , Adobe Illustrator, Apple laptop, workstation, Northside, Northside facility, executive decision, stealth project, studio managers, Louie , Casablanca, Studio 54, Pygmalion, Hannah Montana, High School Musical, blockbuster, teen markets , Middle America , club scene, central focus

• Toon Tuesday : A Disney kind of guy

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman looks back on the life & career of the late Bruce Gordon. A funny, brilliant and irreverant Imagineer & Disney historian that Floyd believes had a lot in common with the man Bruce so admired, Walt Disney Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, books, Walt Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, Glendale, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, WDI, Walt Disney Imagineering, Imagineer, Imagineering, Bruce Gordon, The Walt Disney Family Museum, Walt Disney Family Museum, The Presidio, Presidio, Diane Disney Miller, Inside the Dream: The Personal Story of Walt Disney, Disneyland, Apple , Macintosh, Disney Macintosh User Group, Mickey's Mac Club, The Mac Club, Macintosh computer, mouse pad, cloisonné pin , Apple logo, Disney logo, David Mumford, postcards, Disneyland -- The Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on the Earth , Disney Press, Anaheim, Tomorrowland 2055, Tomorrowland 1998, desktop publishing, software, theme park, submarine , Submarine Voyage, ride, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Finding Nemo, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Walt was right, Disney Legend, Toontown, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, John Cawley, cataroo.com, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Afrokids.com, Son of Faster Cheaper