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• Toon Thursday: When Dad's a Disney Legend, that's a tough act to follow

  Floyd Norman looks back on the careers of Peter Kahl, John Kimball and Dale King. Each of them a talented artist in their own right. Who then had to struggle in order to escape the shadows of their far more famous fathers Read More... Posted Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, 1960s, Milt Kahl , Animation Building, design , Walt Disney Productions , Disney's Animation Building , character designer , industry veterans , legacy, A-Wing

• Toon Tuesday: Funky Warehouse Syndrome

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman points out an interesting paradox of the animation industry. In that artists deserve the finest facilities, but it's sometimes better if they don't actually get them Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios, 1970s, Pixar Animation Studios, Glendale, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Toy Story, Animation Building, young artists , animators, animation artist, design , Walt Disney Productions , Burbank lot , Disney artist , Disney backlot , backlot , Disney animator , artists, young animators, Hanna-Barbera , Hanna-Barbera Studio , 1980s, story, 1990s, production design, production team , production designer, film, motion pictures, studio, Hanna Barbera

• 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