Dropped in on Charles Solomon's class on Disney animation yesterday to be in the presence of guest speaker Andreas Deja speak and draw. In case you don't know who he is, let it be known that the dude's kinda' a big deal. Andreas is a lead animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He animated Gaston in "Beauty and the Beast", Scar in "The Lion King", Lilo, in "Lilo & Stitch" and Mickey in one of my fav shorts, "The Runaway Brain" - haven't seen it? No worries. Watch it HERE. It's awesome!
Was so much fun and inspiring to be in the presence of greatness. Andreas shared with a lecture hall of UCLA students juicy stories involving "important" decisions made at the House of the Mouse... ones involving the placement of the actual scar on "Scar" and the length and type of chest hair on every-last-inch-of-him's-covered-with-hair "Gaston"...
Good-times.
Photo: Me and le cub at the Greek Theater.
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