This story conference dealt with the HUNTSMAN IN THE WOODS SEQUENCE, a continuation of a story conference they held 6-days prior, which transcript I posted back in November. This is... read more →
So here we are at the end of 2020 -- good riddance. Here's wishing for a great new year !!! ["It can't get no worse" -- John Lennon, Getting Better]... read more →
On this night before Christmas in the year 2020, I thought we'd flash back 87 years to the Walt Disney Studio's 1933 Silly Symphony, The Night Before Christmas. For each... read more →
I'm presently reworking a children's story to remove a rifle from the plot. It's not essential to the story arc, and weapons in children's literature have become a very sensitive... read more →
This story conference dealt with the ALONE IN THE WOODS SEQUENCE, a continuation of the story conference they held 6-days prior, which transcript I posted two weeks ago. In this... read more →
I needed to model a cartoon car from the Wright Brothers era, and I chose a Buick to caricature. The finished model is a very simple design because it needed... read more →
This excerpt, more than anything, shows Walt's optimism for life, and more than anything else, this evident optimism, in my opinion, is what propelled his success: "Get the thought that... read more →
I needed to build up a 3D barn asset for THE FLYING MOOSE cartoon, and I modeled this one from my childhood memories as a child spending summers at my... read more →
Just a couple of comments of the Disney story structure method that came out in this meeting: Early on, Walt commented both "Get the contrast in there" and "that is... read more →
"All was desolate on these arid hills. The only hint of promise was scattered about, a dull metamorphic rock..." -- The Apparatus My Studio Desk at Rising Gables, Portsmouth, New... read more →