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• When you work in animation, there’s just no avoiding those Pink Slip Blues

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman returns with a column that discusses one of the lesser popular aspects of working in Toontown. And that’s the layoff that invariably comes whenever a new animated feature completes production Read More... Posted Monday, March 01, 2010 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, books, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, 101 Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, 1960s, John Lasseter, Burbank, The Walt Disney Company, The Lion King, Aladdin, Disney Legend, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, Animation Building, California, young artists , employees , layoffs , Walt Disney Productions , Burbank lot , Floyd Norman, Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, Disney's Animation Building , old Animation Building, Disney artist , book, Disney animator , artists, assignment , animated film, young animators, feature films, Hanna-Barbera , pink slip, Hanna-Barbera Studio , animation professionals, Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1990s, Roy Disney, production, production team , film, animated feature film, studio, WDAS, Jim Fletcher, Freddy Hellmich, Hanna Barbera, Glen Keane, Ray Aragon, animated feature, 2010, Kem Weber, Beauty & the Beast, Vic Haboush, layoff, Hicks Lokey, Bill Keil, Amby Paliwoda, Disk Drive: Animated Humor in the Digital Age, My Animated Life: A seriously funny look at the cartoon business by Disney's first colorful animator, blurb.com

• 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: What was it like to work at the Mouse Factory back in the 1950s?

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman talks about what it was like to work at Walt Disney Studios in the post-strike era. And to Floyd's way of thinking, "The Bad Old Days" were pretty darned good Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, 1950s, Hollywood, Burbank, Animation Building, Disney Commissary , California, Los Angeles , instruction, artwork , 1941 , animators strike , Walt Disney Productions , sound stage, Old Hollywood, Burbank lot , motion picture, Disney artist , Dopey Drive, good times , Disney animator , The Great Depression, artists, job, Silver Lake , animated film, young animators, Disney shorts , master animator, industry veterans , job security, animation professionals, Roy Disney, production, production team , film, animated feature film, motion pictures, leader, legacy, Riverside Drive, animated feature, animation training class, animation department