I have written before about John Lounsbery's involvement in the character of Robin Hood. He started him off by animating a few scenes, b...

I have written plenty about The Black Cauldron over the years. This was my first project at Disney when I started there in August of 1980. T...

Congratulations to Mark Henn for receiving the Disney Legend Award! I worked with Mark on the same sequences from time to time. Here are a f...

Russel Hall animated  most key scenes with Jessica. His take on the character is unique as you can see in these two spectacular rough drawin...

As mentioned in my previous Hercules post, I recently re-discovered early character designs which I thought had been lost. These marker draw...

These days the world is talking about the return of Celine Dion.  Ever since her song for Beauty & the Beast (with Peabo Bryson) I have...

  Elsie Henderson was an English painter and sculptor who lived from 1880 - 1967. She was terrific depicting animals, particularly big cats....

I just re-discovered these model sheets. The drawings and notes (with typos) were meant for my animation crew, animators as well as clean up...

We made a music video featuring Richard Sherman's "Mushka's Lullaby".  The wonderful Holly Sedillos is featured during her...

  The Lion King turned 30 last month, and I have been speaking frequently to people who had questions about what it was like to work on the...

I talked about this sequence from the Jungle Book before. Here Shere Khan interrogates Kaa, the python, about the man cub. The storyboards ...

You all heard by now that Richard M Sherman passed away recently. He would have been 96 years old next week on June 12.  Richard was amazing...

  Recently I had the good fortune to purchase this beautiful sketch by Milt Kahl. It was part of the Marc Davis Auction at Heritage. So what...