Dumbo’s Mother: Adrienne Tytla
Adrienne le Clerc met her husband Bill Tytla in 1936 when she was a 22-year-old actress and fashion model from Seattle, earning extra money by posing for Disney Studio art classes.
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Why the Beatles First Hated “Yellow Submarine”
There would be less than eleven months to make the film on a budget of roughly one million dollars. To meet that deadline, production had to start without a final script or storyboard in place.
In Her Own Words: Phyllis Craig on Disney Ink and Paint
Phyllis Craig started as a painter on Peter Pan moved up to do inking, and, eventually doing color key work on Sleeping Beauty.
Dick Tracy in Animation
While the show was called The Dick Tracy Show, Tracy only appeared very briefly at the beginning and end of each episode, sitting at his desk, assigning his agents to track down his famous foes.
Treasure Planet’s Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins
While most of the characters in Treasure Planet were completely hand-drawn, the character of John Silver was a hybrid of traditional animation and CGI.
In His Own Words: Marc Davis on Disney Storymen
Marc Davis was called by Walt his “Renaissance Man” because of his contributions in so many areas from animation to Imagineering. I was able to ask him about the story men he worked with.
In His Own Words: Ken Anderson
Ken Anderson’s official credits list such titles at Disney as art direction, art supervision, story, color, styling, layout, production, character development and more.
Don Bluth’s “Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera”
All about the 1990 Hanna-Barbera simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida – where guests became part of an animated adventure in a H-B cartoon.
The Many Lives of Duck Dodgers
A survey of Duck Dodgers and Marvin Martian in over 60 years of animation – in all formats.
Hanna Barbera’s “Rock Odyssey”
The story behind the “lost” Hanna-Barbera animated feature Rock Odyssey has always been interesting to me. Here’s what I know about it.
