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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 12:00 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: Jim Fletcher, Disney Artist and the Ultimate Hollywood Fan

Disney Legend Floyd Norman launches a new series at JHM by talking about a co-worker of his who really did seem to know everyone who was anyone in Tinsel town Read More...

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments

Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, 1970s, Hollywood, Disney Commissary , Old Hollywood, Floyd Norman, Hyperion Studios, Hanna-Barbera , Hanna-Barbera Studio , 1990s, childrens books, Jim Fletcher, Chicago Institute of Art, Tinsel town, Gregory Peck, Edward G Robinson, Ed Wynn, Edgar Bergen, A-Wing, Freddy Hellmich, Fairy Crew, Des Plains, Illinois, CBS, Jack Benny, The Jack Benny Show, Hollywood Museum, preview, fundraiser, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Toluca Lake, UPA, Hanna Barbera, Format, Encino, Bill Walsh, Ruth Roman, Art Babbit, Margie Belcher, Gower Champion, Linda Darnell, Debbie Reynolds, Margaret O'Brien, Jane Withers, Charlotte Rae

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 , Bryan Ono, 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: The curious case of Elizabeth Case

Disney Legend Floyd Norman returns with a story about “Big Liz,” the Mother of the Beat Generation. Who – as it turns out – was once a Disney animation artist Read More...

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:00 AM | 2 Comments

Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Sleeping Beauty, female animators, 1950s, Burbank, Disney Legend, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Afrokids.com, Son of Faster Cheaper, California, animators, animation artist, Disney history , Walt Disney Productions , Burbank lot , Floyd Norman, Mr. Fun's Blog, Disney artist , B-Wing

Toon Tuesday : Disney's Night School

Disney Legend Floyd Norman reminisces about the after-hours animation classes that used to be offered on the Disney lot back in the 1950s Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:00 AM | 3 Comments

Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, traditional animation, books, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, Mouse House, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt was right, Disney Legend, 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, ABC, Animation Building, Frank Thomas, California, California Institute of the Arts , Cal Arts, Sheridan College, 1956, shorts , Nine Old Men , Chouinard Art Institute , Los Angeles , young artists , animators, layout artists, background painters , night school, instruction, classmates , employees , screening rooms , Joshua Meador, effects animators , painter, palette knife , brush, True-Life Adventure , Jack Foster , Ken O'Connor , animation artist, design , Fantasia, Dance of the Hours, artwork , development , pencil test, John Sparey, mentoring program , Ollie Johnston , chops , director, Disney history , Bob McCrea , bankruptcy, 1941 , 1941 animators strike , animators strike , Bill Eigle , layoffs , master class , after-hours

Toon Tuesday : Home for the Holidays

As a special holiday treat, Disney Legend Floyd Norman takes JHM readers on a tour of Walt Disney Studios circa 1957 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:00 AM | 7 Comments

Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, Burbank, Disneyland, Disney Legend, holidays, 1957 , Christmas, ABC, Milt Kahl , D-Wing , Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Animation Building, Eyvind Earle , Ralph Hulett, Frank Thomas, key assistant, Dale Oliver , Glogg, Ink and Paint Building, Grace Bailey, Disney Commissary , North Korea , South Korea, Korea, US Army, replica, DMZ , California

Toon Tuesday: A tribute to Hurricane Eva

Precious little is known about the early women animators at Walt Disney Studios. Floyd Norman returns with a profile of one female artist you should really know about Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:00 AM | 7 Comments