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• Steve Jobs: A Tough Act to Follow

  As stories continue to circulate about the Head of Apple's health problems, Disney Legend Floyd Norman looks back to the 1960s. When another company you may know suddenly had to deal with leadership & succession-related issues Read More... Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 12:00 AM | 9 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, 1960s, Pixar Animation Studios, Diane Disney Miller, Apple , artists, Walt Disney World, 1990s, pop culture, innovative, popular culture, Phil Schiller, vice president, keynote, keynote address, San Francisco, MacWorld, MacWorld Expo, MacWorld 2009, Steve Jobs, Steven P Jobs, Epcot, June, Ron Miller, CEO, Silverado Vineyards, Napa, Napa Valley, Silicon Valley, garage, innovative products, leader, legacy, 1966, visionary leaders

• The Elephant in the Room -- Part I

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman returns with a detailed look at "Wild Life," an innovative animated feature that WDAS developed as a follow-up project for "Dinosaur" but ultimately abandoned in late 2000 Read More... Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, CG, Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, John Cawley, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Afrokids.com, design , development , 1941 animators strike , motion picture, Floyd Norman, Mr. Fun's Blog, music , book, artists, sketches , drawings , assignment , animated film, sequence, storyman, elephant , singing, dancing , diva, pop icon , story, love, revenge, intrigue, digital , Walt Disney Feature Animation, animation historian, Charles Solomon, bookshelf, 2000, story team, Wild Life, storyboard, song sequence, 1990s, send up, American pop culture, pop culture, pop heroes, Andy Warhol, fashion mavens, fashion maven, Anna Wintour, Diana Vreeland, pop, glitzy, glamorous, The Devil Wears Prada, co-director, Howard Baker, innovative, groundbreaking, satirical, shallow, superficial, popular culture, trends, fashion, style, Kitty Glitter, Ella the Elephant, sketch, Head of Story, Darryl Kidder, art direction, production design, storyboard assignment, shutdown, fully rendered, green-lit, production designers, digital characters, up on reels, screening, Roy Disney, Monsters, Inc.