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 →
From a story perspective, I did find the following bit interesting: "Maybe you could have a broken rake for the combing of his beard." When studying creativity, there's a great... read more →
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