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

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman begins a new series about the development & production of this 1996 Walt Disney Pictures animated feature Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:00 AM | 13 Comments Filed under: animation, Comics, Disney, movies, Glendale, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Legend, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, Son of Faster Cheaper, development , Floyd Norman, Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, Disney artist , Disney animator , animated film, layout artist , storyman, Michael Eisner , story, Walt Disney Feature Animation, story team, art direction, Roy Disney, layout, layout crew, Church, religious, Esmerelda, Euro Disney, Euro Disneyland, 14th century Europe, Europe, 1993, 1996, sophisticated, Airway, Sanctuary, Judge Claude Frollo, Hellfire, Disney Publishing, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, childrens books, Stephen Schwartz, Alan Menken, Peter Schneider, Thomas Schumacher, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, David Goetz, Roy E Disney

• 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

• Toon Tuesday : Getting a head with Blaine Gibson

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman pays tribute to a master animator & sculptor. Who -- due to his soft-spoken nature -- often doesn't get the attention that he deserves Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, 101 Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, Hollywood, Glendale, WDI, Walt Disney Imagineering, Imagineer, Imagineering, Disneyland, theme park, Disney Legend, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Afrokids.com, Son of Faster Cheaper, 1957 , Animation Building, Frank Thomas, shorts , young artists , effects animators , 1940s , 1961, special effects , effects shots, Mr. Fun , blog, Mr. Fun's Blog, Blaine Gibson , attraction, limo, media event , Disney Blu-Ray , Blu-Ray , Disney animator , Pirates of the Caribbean, Good Fairies , Flora, Fauna, Merryweather , 1930s, farm boy , Colorado, college, Depression, The Great Depression, artists, sketches , drawings , job, Greyhound, bus, train, Silver Lake , Hyperion Studios, assignment , drawing, apprentices , animated film, phases of production, messenger boys, Traffic Department, young animators, Disney shorts , feature films, effects, effects animation, plum scenes , master animator, top animators, clean-up, clean-up crew , opening scenes , Pongo, Roger, personality, movement , sequence, Walt Disney World, Montecito , Santa Barbara , George W Bush , bust , WDW, The Hall of Presidents, animation treasure