JHM favorite Floyd Norman reminisces about his old mentor. In particular the significant impact that this talented artist had on Floyd's career...

Floyd Norman shares a great in-joke from "Cars" as well as talking up the new optimistic atmosphere that he's been encountering while wandering the corridors of Disney Feature Animation...

Floyd Norman returns with a somewhat cautionary tale about what can happen to a corporation when it ties up far too much of its future with just a few individuals...

Floyd Norman looks back on his involvement with Disney Feature Animation's first CG project. Which -- while this Eric Leighton & Ralph Zontag film may have been visually stunning -- it wasn't all that entertaining...

Some pretty strange stuff can happen when you work in the entertainment industry. Floyd Norman shares some tales about his experiences back during the early days of television...

Ever wonder what it was like to work at the Mouse House before it became a mega-corporation? Floyd Norman takes JHM readers on a tour of Disney Studios back when it was still a family friendly company and nobody cared about Wall Street...

You can't work at the Mouse Factory without rubbing elbows with a few celebrities. Floyd Norman tells tales about those that he's encountered during his time in Tinsel Town...

In "The Lion King," the ghost of Mufasa reminds Simba to "remember who you are." Animation legend Floyd Norman thinks that Disney Feature Animation might be advised to do the same....

Animation industry legend Floyd Norman returns with the tale of two high flying animation studios that eventually went down in flames....

Animation industry legend Floyd Norman thinks that it's no laughing matter that big shot screenwriters now control the animated story telling in Hollywood....

Floyd Norman takes a fond look at "The World's Greatest Athlete," a 1973 Walt Disney Productions' release about a super athlete that John Amos & Tim Conway discover hiding out in Africa. ...

JHM reader favorite Floyd Norman returns with another great column. This time around, Floyd talks about his memorable encounter with the author of the "Hitchhiker's" books and how he help guide Adams to a Pacific paradise....

JHM reader favorite Floyd Norman asks: If animation studios are really in the business of making fun cartoons, then why do they need security systems that rival the Pentagon?...

Floyd Norman looks back on the time when Walt Disney and *** Van *** tried doing their very own movie version of Robinson Crusoe. But somehow this film got marooned. ...

JHM reader favorite Floyd Norman returns with another great column today. This time around, Floyd talks about the fateful day that he brought Uncle Remus out of retirement. ...

Animation legend Floyd Norman returns with another great article for JimHillMedia.com. This time around, Floyd lets you know what it was really like to be on the Disney lot while "Mary Poppins" was in production....

Animation industry vet (and JHM fan favorite) Floyd Norman returns with a fun new column that takes a behind-the-scenes look at Bill Cosby's first animated cartoon studio. ...

This time around, Floyd Norman talks about the Disney legend who could could do it all. Though colleagues grumbled when Walt called him a genius, Kimball was indeed just that. ...

Animation industry legend Floyd Norman returns to JHM with another great column. This time around, Floyd writes about the "Jackie Robinson" of animation. A man whose career ended far too soon. ...

JHM favorite Floyd Norman is back with another great column. This time around, Floyd talks about "The Three Musketeers," which Norman says really deserved better treatment then just being dumped on DVD....

JHM favorite Floyd Norman's back with another great column. This time around, Floyd uses a certain troubled monkey movie as an opportunity to talk about what it was like to work in story at Walt Disney Studios back in the 1960s. ...

JHM favorite Floyd Norman looks back fondly on the days when he helped steer the comic book career of a certain rodent. ...

Animation industry legend Floyd Norman returns to JHM with a great new article about one of Disney's "Nine Old Men," Milt Kahl....

Animation industry legend Floyd Norman returns to JHM with a reminder that "Chicken Little" isn't the first time Walt Disney Studios has made a trip to the hen house. ...

JHM contributor Floyd Norman returns with a snazzy new column about Jim Henson. A creative genius that Floyd feels was worthy of Walt's crown, a man who could have brought vision and imagination back to Disney. Alas, it was not to be....