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I am definitely an early Disney film fan (from an animation perspective). Another book you might read is actually written by two of Disney's "Nine Old Men" cal
by froo 18y ago
I am definitely an early Disney film fan (from an animation perspective).
Another book you might read is actually written by two of Disney's "Nine Old Men" called "The Illusion of Life" (Pixar actually did an homage to them in The Incredibles) and it talks about not only the specific techniques that they created, but also the attitude of the studio in the early days.
It's actually interesting to read the history on something like Apple and also Disney and see the many similarities between the two companies in their early days.
Early Disney was definitely a startup that had a lot of the hacker values.
Walt was definitely on another plane of thinking. My favourite quote of his is:
“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination”
- Walt Disney
- replicatorblog 18y agoVery cool, is the homage your referring to when there are the two old men talking and say something like "Thats the way you do it, old school" and the other says "No school like the old school." I always wondered why they were in that scene, but that would explain it.
- froo 18y agoYep that's exactly who they are. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Nine_Old_Men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Nine_Old_Men In fact, to tie it all together with the original topic, Ollie Johnson's lifelong hobby was building steam trains. He was one of the main influences for Walt Disney wanting to build his own trains.