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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: 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