03-25-2004, 10:02 PM
Well I heard he was always a producer, as in he created his characters and stories and then had other people do the animating. He never actually sat down and drew the individual frames of a movie himself. I *might* be wrong here, but I'm quite sure that's the way it was.
Don't get me wrong, he was very good at what he did and created some fantastic stuff -- and came up with quite a few brilliant technologies that are now used in the making of just about every new cartoon -- and without him cartoons probably wouldn't exist any more. I think he was a genius, and he put his heart and soul into making his movies. But to say he had a "vision" is just a little over the top for me. At the end of the day he was just some dude making his money.
Don't get me wrong, he was very good at what he did and created some fantastic stuff -- and came up with quite a few brilliant technologies that are now used in the making of just about every new cartoon -- and without him cartoons probably wouldn't exist any more. I think he was a genius, and he put his heart and soul into making his movies. But to say he had a "vision" is just a little over the top for me. At the end of the day he was just some dude making his money.