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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: gags, production, production design, production team , film, young animators, young artists , Walt Peregoy, Ward Kimball, Walt Disney, style, Sleeping Beauty, screening, screening rooms , sequence, sequences, Ron Clements, Nine Old Men , Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, Milt Kahl , layout, layout artist , layout artists, layout crew, leader, legacy, Eyvind Earle , Disney backlot , Disney Commissary , Disney history , design , development , color storyboards , column, California, Brad Bird, artists, assignment , animated feature, animation, animation artist, Animation Building, 2009, Tom Oreb, top animators, John Lasseter, John Musker, 101 Dalmatians, 1950s, instruction, story issues, story team, storyboard, storyboarding, storyman, studio, Burbank, Burbank lot , Disney, animation professionals, animators, art direction, Mouse House, shorts , shorts unit, Disney movie, Disney shorts , Disney staffers , wisdom

• Monday Mouse Watch : No Studio for Old Men

  It just doesn't pay to age in the animation business. Or so says Disney Legend Floyd Norman in his latest column of JHM Read More... Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 12:00 AM | 9 Comments Filed under: production, production company, young animators, young artists , Walt Disney Animation Studios, Stanford, portfolios, over the hill, expiration date, demo reels, corporate America, cost effective, A-Wing, animation, animation artist, animation department, 1970s, top animators, animation professionals, animation training class, animators, Art Stevens, Harvard Business School, shelf life, old codgers, old farts, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Productions , Walt Disney Studios, mob bosses

• 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: cutbacks, Dave Michener, Granada Hills , Son of Faster Cheaper, pink slip, Afrokids.com, television , television animation , television series , television show, Filmation, writer/director , young animators, young artists , Visual Arts , Walt Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, traditional animation, third world potentates, The Great Mouse Detective, Survivor, Sleeping Beauty, Ruby-Spears, Orlando , overpaid gig, movies, Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, layoffs , layout artist , Hollywood, Hanna-Barbera , Hanna-Barbera Studio , Glendale, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, Disney animator , Disney artist , desert island , craft services , CG, CGI , character designer , artists, animation, animation artist, Animation Building, 1956, 1980s, job security, 101 Dalmatians, 1950s, industry veterans , storyman, MGM Animation , Michael Eisner , Rick Gonzales, Bryan Ono, Burbank, digital bandwagon , director, Disney, drawing board, animation professionals, animators, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Bob Clampett, Bob Clampett Studio , real survivors , shorts , shorts unit, old survivor, Walt Disney Productions , Walt Disney Studios, Disney Legend