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• Disney’s timeless battle between the young punks and the old guard

  Everything old is new again at the Mouse Factory. Or so says Disney Legend Floyd Norman, as he talks about the creative struggles that have gone at the Studios for decades now Read More... Posted Monday, December 07, 2009 12:05 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Tom Oreb, Walt Peregoy, 101 Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, Mouse House, John Lasseter, Burbank, Milt Kahl , Animation Building, Eyvind Earle , Disney Commissary , California, shorts , Nine Old Men , young artists , animators, layout artists, instruction, screening rooms , animation artist, design , development , Disney history , Burbank lot , Disney movie, Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, wisdom, column, Disney staffers , gags, Disney backlot , artists, assignment , young animators, Disney shorts , top animators, sequence, shorts unit, layout artist , storyman, animation professionals, story team, storyboard, style, art direction, production design, screening, production, sequences, production team , story issues, color storyboards , layout, layout crew, film, studio, 2009, leader, legacy, John Musker, Ron Clements, Brad Bird, storyboarding, animated feature

• Toon Tuesday: Looking Back on Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" -- Part Deux

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman concludes his series on the development & production of this 1996 Walt Disney Pictures animated feature Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, traditional animation, female animators, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Disney movie, Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, animated film, young animators, feature films, top animators, opening scenes , sequence, Michael Eisner , story, Walt Disney Feature Animation, story team, storyboard, song sequence, screening, sequences, Esmerelda, 1996, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stephen Schwartz, Alan Menken, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, Canada, UK, Paul Brizzi, Gaetan Brizzi, Burny Mattinson, Festival of Fools, Kevin Harkey, Kathy Zielinski, James Baxter, Chris Sanders, Roy Conli, Brenda Chapman, gargoyles, Pasadena, Quasimodo, Phoebus, Brizzi Brothers

• 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

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

  In the final installment of his new two-part series, Disney Legend Floyd Norman recalls what it was like to be on the Burbank lot while this 1961 David Swift movie was being filmed Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: Disney, movies, Walt Disney, Hollywood, Burbank, Animation Building, employees , screening rooms , director, The Parent Trap , Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills , Pollyanna, A Walt Disney Production , Walt Disney Productions , writer/director , David Swift, Bud Swift , 1961, Petticoats and Blue Jeans , sound stage, Maureen O'Hara , Brian Keith, Leo G Carroll, Nancy Kulp , Frank DeVol , Stage Two, special effects , special photographic technique , camera optics , sodium matte process , Burbank lot , actor, matte system , special camera lens , Alexander Korda , Eustace Lycett , optical equipment , special effects wizards, Ruth McDevitt , Disney Princess , Belle, John Mills, rough cut, effects shots, Bill Justice , title sequence , Sherman brothers , Tommy Sands, Disney movie, twin girls, twins, identical twins , twin daughters