In addition to attending SIGGRAPH, I was also lucky enough to go to a
D23 weekend celebrating 75 years of Disney animation. I was really surprised to find that although many of the attendees were not necessarily a part of the animation industry, the presentations and lectures were detailed and informative especially to students of animation. It was at this conference that I found the most inspiration for my current Honours project and thesis.
Today started with lectures and presentations by animator Burny Mattinson and layout artist and film producer Joe Hale.
Hosted by the director of the Disney Archives, Becky Cline, this portion of the program looked at the golden age of Disney animation and the talents of the nine old men. Mattinson was an assistant animator under Marc Davis on Sleeping Beauty in 1959 and went on to become key animator on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too in 1974 then on to work on pretty much
every major feature animation at the Walt Disney Studios since that time. Hale was instrumental on many films produced at Disney and is particularly known for bringing Andreas Deja to Disney during his time producing the
Black Cauldron. His insight into the political workings of the studio and how the golden age contrasted with the dark ages (late 1970s to 80s) were of real interest.
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| Burny Mattinson |
The lectures looked at the process in the early days of the studio, the constant input from Walt Disney and the development of animation as an art form moving from shorts to full length features.
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| Moving from Hyperion Studios to Burbank |
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| Kind of Sums of the Walt Disney vision of HIS studio |
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| 3 of the 9 old men |
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| 3 of the 9 old men |
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