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• 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

• 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.

• Toon Tuesday : Here's to the real survivors

  Disney Legend Floyd Norman pays tribute to all those animation veterans who have hung in there through the tough times Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, traditional animation, CG, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney, 101 Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, 1950s, Hollywood, Glendale, Burbank, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney Legend, Faster! Cheaper! The Flip Side of the Art of Animation, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Afrokids.com, Son of Faster Cheaper, Animation Building, 1956, television show, shorts , young artists , animators, animation artist, director, layoffs , Walt Disney Productions , writer/director , television , television series , Mr. Fun , Mr. Fun's Blog, Disney artist , Disney animator , artists, young animators, Survivor, desert island , craft services , drawing board, shorts unit, Rick Gonzales, cutbacks, layout artist , character designer , Hanna-Barbera , Ruby-Spears, pink slip, industry veterans , MGM Animation , Visual Arts , Bob Clampett, Bob Clampett Studio , Bryan Ono, Hanna-Barbera Studio , television animation , Filmation, 1980s, Granada Hills , Dave Michener, storyman, The Great Mouse Detective, Michael Eisner , Orlando , CGI , digital bandwagon , job security, animation professionals, third world potentates, overpaid gig, old survivor, real survivors