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Apr 07

Walt Disney – Snow White STORY CONFERENCE – SEQUENCE 3-B (SHOW WHITE AND ANIMALS IN WOODS), September 3, 1936

Not directly related to the story line but a very important technique of Walt's entertainment value are INCIDENTAL ACTIONS: "WALT: As an incidental action, when the turtle gets up from the water water should be seen running out of the holes in his shell – don’t make anything of it,... read more →

April 7, 2021
Michael Sky Danley
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Disney, Historical, Snow White, Uncategorized

Mar 23

‘Jo Jo Slithers’, the green water snake

I had been working on my southern Little Kit story a couple of weeks ago, the Little Kit's Driftwood Adventure story, when I read that Jon Batiste received an academy award nomination for music in the animated feature Soul. While I would take issue with some of Soul's story execution... read more →

Mar 10

Walt Disney – Snow White STORY CONFERENCE – SEQUENCE 5-A (Bedroom), July 14, 1936

A lengthy story meeting, considering how short the sequence is. Actually, the final sequence was cut back a lot from what was discussed here. For example, the fight scene completely gone, and a lot of the dialogue gone. Interestingly, they (concernedly) discussed how much of this sequence was dialogue, 450... read more →

Mar 02

‘SKIDDER’ the Kid Turtle, a character design from THE FLYING MOOSE Cartoon

One of my character designs from The Flying Moose cartoon. I first drew him with a pen and paper, settling on the design, and I then imported him into Autodesk Maya and modeled him as a 3D polygon structure. I also did the rigging, which means giving him a skeleton... read more →

March 2, 2021
Michael Sky Danley
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Sky Danley Productions, The Flying Moose

Feb 03

Walt Disney – Snow White GAG MEETING SUPPLEMENT TO CONTINUITY – SEQUENCE 3-B (Snow White Alone in the Woods), August 19, 1936

I imagine most people will not find this document as interesting as the other. For me, though, it's far more interesting because it shows their process of gagging a story. As I've already discussed, gags are one of the main ingredients of Disney Story, and they put a lot of... read more →

Jan 27

Flying Bicycle prop from THE FLYING MOOSE cartoon

When I was 10-years-old, with the help of my childhood friend John Buchta, I converted my Schwinn Stingray into a flying bicycle. It was quite an engineering feat for two young boys. We took a clothes hangar rod out of a closet and used it as the wing spar, and... read more →

January 27, 2021
Michael Sky Danley
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Sky Danley Productions, The Flying Moose

Jan 21

Walt Disney Story Conference on Snow White’s SEND DWARFS OUT TO WASH ALONE (SEQUENCE 5B), August 8, 1936

I've been busy this week, so I'm a little late on this post, but I still want to get it out. The story conference is about washing up before dinner, with gags about dirty hands and men not washing. Here it is:

Jan 13

‘The Flying Moose’ cartoon opening credits backgrounds

My 17-minute cartoon, The Flying Moose, is entering post production and I'm working on the opening credits and theme music. A rough edit of these opening credits with the music montage is now posted on this site's home page. Since the cartoon takes place in 1903 (the invention of the... read more →

January 13, 2021
Michael Sky Danley
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Sky Danley Productions, Story Blog, The Flying Moose

Jan 05

Walt Disney Story Conference on Snow White’s HUNTSMAN IN THE WOODS SEQUENCE, July 3rd, 1936

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 quite a lengthy document, at 14-pages. It covered a lot of Disney story techniques that can only be truly understood... read more →

Dec 29

Happy New Year from Sky Danley Productions (let’s hope it’s a good one !!!)

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] -- Sky Danley