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• 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 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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