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• 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 Thursday : Mermaids, donuts and musical concrete

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman is back with a trio of wild & wacky stories from his days at the Mouse House. And did we mention that Mr. Fun now has his very own blog ? Read More... Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, books, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, 1960s, Mouse House, Glendale, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, Imagineering, Disneyland, theme park, Disney Legend, Toontown, "Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation" , cataroo.com, "How the Grinch Stole Disney" , Afrokids.com, "Son of Faster Cheaper", Animation Building, animators, Bob's Big Boy , artwork , Disney history , Walt Disney Productions , 1940s , Burbank lot , Jim Hill , Floyd Norman, JHM , Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, JimHillMedia, "Favorites" list , shameless plugging , column, Disney's Animation Building , Disney art , crazy, creative , corporate , rock band, album, "Music Concrete" , electronic music, space epic , F-Wing , old Animation Building, coffee machine, coffee maker , vending machine, donuts, donut, donut machine , ants, ant, Disney artist , Disney staffers , gags, Jack Fergus, sculptor , attraction, sculpture , B-Wing, mermaid , Disney backlot , boxing movie , Dopey Drive, movers, moving crew , book

• Toon Tuesday: Disney's "B" Movie

  Long before Jerry Seinfeld and DreamWorks began talking about making "Bee Movie," this subject was alive & well at Walt Disney Studios Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:00 AM | 20 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Hollywood, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, Bill Peet, Animation Building

• 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, "Disneyland" , 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, 1st Calvary Division, DMZ , California

• Toon Tuesday : A Disney kind of guy

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman looks back on the life & career of the late Bruce Gordon. A funny, brilliant and irreverant Imagineer & Disney historian that Floyd believes had a lot in common with the man Bruce so admired, Walt Disney Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, books, Walt Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, Glendale, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, WDI, Walt Disney Imagineering, Imagineer, Imagineering, Bruce Gordon, The Walt Disney Family Museum, Walt Disney Family Museum, The Presidio, Presidio, Diane Disney Miller, "Inside the Dream: The Personal Story of Walt Disney", Disneyland, Apple , Macintosh, Disney Macintosh User Group, "Mickey's Mac Club", "The Mac Club", Macintosh computer, mouse pad, cloisonné pin , Apple logo, Disney logo, David Mumford, postcards, "Disneyland -- The Nickel Tour: A Postcard Journey through a Half Century of the Happiest Place on the Earth" , Disney Press, Anaheim, Tomorrowland 2055, Tomorrowland 1998, desktop publishing, software, theme park, submarine , Submarine Voyage, ride, "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", "Finding Nemo", "Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage", "Walt was right", Disney Legend, Toontown, "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"

• Toon Tuesday : The Failure Factor

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman returns with an object lesson for all you creative types out there. How falling on your face every now & then can actually play an important part in your growth as an artist and as a person Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:00 PM | 7 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Hollywood, John Lasseter, Pixar Animation Studios, Glendale, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Kansas City, "Toy Story", failure, CFI, "The Lion King", "The Jungle Book", "Aladdin", Bill Peet, Rudyard Kipling

• 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 Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, traditional animation, Walt Disney Studios, Louisiana, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, "Sleeping Beauty", female animators, Eva Schneider, Vanity Fair, Switzerland, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Mouse Factory, Mouse House, Hollywood, Gulf Coast, category 5 storm

• Toon Tuesday : In Defense of Mavericks

  Animation industry legend Floyd Norman returns with a cautionary tale. Where he points out that while animation studios do need employees who know how to follow the rules, there's an even greater need for artists who know when to break the rules Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:00 AM | 17 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, traditional animation, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Tom Oreb, Walt Peregoy, "101 Dalmatians"

• Toon Tuesday : My favorite Geekathon -- Comic-Con International

  As he gets ready to make his annual trip down to San Diego, animation legend Floyd Norman recalls the early days of the Con. Back when this strictly-comic-book convention was held at the El Cortez Hotel Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: animation, Comics, Disney, Pixar, CG, books

• Toon Tuesday : Remembering Vance Gerry of WDAS's Story Department (1929 - 2005)

  As he concludes his new series about some of the storymen that he worked with at Disney Studios, animation legend Floyd Norman looks back over the career of Vance Gerry Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, traditional animation

• Toon Tuesday : Remembering Fred Lucky of WDFA's Story Department (1938 - 1999)

  As he continues his new series about some of the storymen that he worked with at Disney Studios, animation legend Floyd Norman looks back over the career of cartoonist & storyboard artist Fred Lucky Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: animation, Comics, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, Pixar, traditional animation, CG, books

• Toon Tuesday : Remembering Pete Young (1948 - 1985)

  As he begins a brand-new series about some of the storymen that he worked with at Disney Studios, animation legend Floyd Norman looks back at the all-too-brief career of Pete Young Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 12:00 AM | 9 Comments Filed under: animation, Comics, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, traditional animation

• Toon Tuesday : Animators of the Caribbean

  Leaving Burbank behind for a while, animation legend Floyd Norman recalls his trip to Jamaica back in the 1980s. Back when he and his partner, Leo Sullivan tried to set up that island's first animation studio Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, books

• Toon Tuesday : "Just finish the darned thing !"

  Floyd Norman returns with a column that talks about the very start of his career at Disney Feature Animation. Back when he was a member of the "Fairy Unit" working on "Sleeping Beauty" Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:00 AM | 13 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, movies