Eat Your Oatmeal!!
Words Care of Dorse A. Lanpher:
Sitting here eating my oatmeal for breakfast and having recently discovered how oatmeal can control ones cholesterol I’m reminded of my last meeting with the revered Joe Grant. Everyone admired Joe for his talent and creative energies but how many of us were close enough to him to have been exposed to his wisdom. I was attending the last showing of some of the many years of his work on the second floor concourse in the Walt Disney Feature Animation building when I had my only chance. Read more
Director Mike Gabriel 2003
(Photo care of Ed Ghertner)
Words care of Mike Gabriel:
This picture of me holding a cardboard over my head is me pretending the rain from my second proposed short for Don Hahn called Parasol, was also falling. I alternated between Parasol and Lorenzo during those 2003 days of ticking clocks as I wound down my Disney contract. Read more
“I’ve Never Eaten Dog Food”
Words and Images by Dan Jeup
This post care of Steve Moore at Flip Magazine
My first animation assignment at CalArts back in 1981 was to learn how to “in-between”. A large table stacked with xeroxed scenes from the Disney classic features was there for the class to pick from. I chose a scene from Peter and the Wolf featuring the star character sitting down in a huff, kicking the snow. I loved the appeal of his design, the rhythm in his poses, the elasticity of his action and the way his face squashed and stretched.
As I carefully in-betweened the scene, a waft of tobacco smoke blew over my shoulder,……Read More
