In 1964, Tania McKnight Norris was hired to work at WED Enterprises—now known as Walt Disney Imagineering—as an interior designer for the highly-anticipated Disneyland expansion: New Orleans Square. During Norris' tenure at WED, she worked on many projects, including Haunted Mansion and concepts for...
Animating facial expressions, whether realistic or exaggerated, is a difficult skill to master. To enhance believability, animators often use themselves as a model for their own poses and expressions. Many classic animators even kept a small mirror by their desks so they could use their reflections...
Join Academy Award®- and Emmy®-nominated director and producer Leslie Iwerks for behind-the-scenes stories from her documentary features The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (1999), The Pixar Story (2007), and Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible (2010), and her latest Disney+...
Join Academy Award®-winning producer Jonas Rivera for behind-the-scenes stories from his acclaimed filmography at Disney·Pixar, including Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Toy Story 4 (2019).
Join former Imagineer Tom Morris for behind-the-scenes stories from his work at the Disney Parks and his recent role in Leslie Iwerks’ Disney+ docuseries, The Imagineering Story.
Join Animator and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Jim Capobianco for behind-the-scenes stories from his career at Disney·Pixar on feature films including Toy Story 2 (1999), Finding Nemo (2003), Ratatouille (2007), Up (2009), and Inside Out (2015), and his work as Animation Sequence Supervisor...
Join Disney Legend actress Jodi Benson, the voice behind Ariel in the Academy Award®-winning The Little Mermaid (1989), for behind-the-scenes stories from her illustrious film, television, and stage career.
We invite you and your family to join our latest Virtual Storytime, Disney Princess: Ariel and the Sea Wolf - Younger Readers Graphic Novel as Illustrator Tara Nicole Whitaker shares the tale of a little mermaid named Ariel and her friend, a sea wolf.
Join Tony Award®-Nominated Playwright and Screenwriter Linda Woolverton for behind-the-scenes stories from her work on the feature films Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Maleficent (2014), and the Broadway musicals Beauty and the Beast (1993), Aida ...
Join Animator and Story Artist Carole Holliday for behind-the-scenes stories from her work on Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Oliver & Company (1988), A Goofy Movie (1995), and Tarzan® (1999), and DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt (1998).
Join Editor Ellen Keneshea for behind-the-scenes stories from her work on Walt Disney Animation Studios’ The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), and Meet the Robinsons (2007), as well as her work on the documentaries Waking...
Join Director Rob Minkoff for behind-the-scenes stories from his work on The Lion King (1994), Stuart Little (1999), The Haunted Mansion (2003), The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), and his upcoming production Blazing Samurai (2021)—an animated re-imagining of Mel Brooks’ Blaz...
The moment a piece of art comes together just right can be a thrilling and uplifting experience which fills the artist with confidence in their artistic ability. Confidence is key for encouraging artists and animators to keep going even as the work gets difficult and they encounter unexpected...
The moment a piece of art comes together just right can be a thrilling and uplifting experience which fills the artist with confidence in their artistic ability. Confidence is key for encouraging artists and animators to keep going even as the work gets difficult and they encounter unexpected...
Traditional hand-drawn animation requires an incredibly high number of individual drawings for each piece of movement. It has been estimated that classic animators like Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men were able to complete from 14–24 seconds of animation per week. If each second of animation requires 24...
Traditional hand-drawn animation requires an incredibly high number of individual drawings for each piece of movement. It has been estimated that classic animators like Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men were able to complete from 14–24 seconds of animation per week. If each second of animation requires 24...
Animation often involves long hours of work hunched over a light table or computer, which is not always good for an artist’s posture. After spending a long time working on a piece of animation while bent over in an uncomfortable pose, the artist’s back might start to hurt. In this installment of our...
Animation often involves long hours of work hunched over a light table or computer, which is not always good for an artist’s posture. After spending a long time working on a piece of animation while bent over in an uncomfortable pose, the artist’s back might start to hurt. In this installment of our...
When Goofy maps out a cross-country summer road trip to Lake Destiny, Idaho, his son Max changes the route to Los Angeles for a pop concert without his father’s knowledge. Will this father-son duo be able to see “I 2 I” by the end of their journey? Grab your fishing rod and join us this July as we...
We invite you and your family to join our latest Virtual Storytime, Pencils, Pens & Brushes: A Great Girls' Guide to Disney Animation with Author Mindy Johnson, as she highlights remarkable women who have worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios throughout the years.