- Floyd Norman
Floyd E. Norman (born "c." 1936) is an American animator who worked on the Walt Disney animated features "Sleeping Beauty", "The Sword in the Stone" and "The Jungle Book" along with various animated short projects at Disney in the late 50's and early 60's. After Walt Disney's death in 1966 Floyd Norman left Disney Studios to co-found the [http://www.afrokids.com/about_us_main.html AfroKids] animation studio with business partner animator/director [http://www.afrokids.com/sullivanbio.html Leo Sullivan] . Norman and Sullivan worked together on various projects such as the "original" [http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/floyd_norman/archive/2004/12/13/1422.aspx " Hey! Hey! Hey! It's Fat Albert"] television special which aired in 1969 on NBC. (not to be confused with the later Fat Albert series made by Filmation Associates.) Floyd Norman returned to Disney at one point in the early 1970s to work on the Disney animated feature Robin Hood. More recently he has worked on motion pictures for the
Walt Disney Animation Studios andPixar Animation Studios , having contributed creatively as a story artist on films such asToy Story 2 andMonsters, Inc. for Pixar andMulan ,Dinosaur and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Walt Disney Animation among others. He continues to work for the Walt Disney Co. as a freelance consultant on various projects.Norman had his start as an assistant to comic book artist
Bill Woggon , who lived in the Santa Barbara area that Norman grew up in. In the 1980s he for a time worked as a writer in the comic strip department at Disney and was the last scripter for the Mickey Mouse comic strip before it was discontinued. [http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/floyd_norman/archive/2004/07/20/1417.aspx]Floyd Norman has also published several books of cartoons inspired by his lifetime of experiences in the animation industry : "Faster! Cheaper!", "Son of Faster, Cheaper!", and "How The Grinch Stole Disney" .
He currently is a columnist for the websites JimHillMedia.com and AfroKids.com and was named a
Disney Legend in 2007. In 2008, he appeared as Guest of Honor at Anthrocon 2008 [http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Anthrocon_2008] and atComic-Con International .External links
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* [http://www.afrokids.com/floyd.htm Biography] at AfroKids.com
* [http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/floyd_norman/default.aspx?PageIndex=4 Columns] at JimHillMedia.com
* [http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Anthrocon_2008 Anthrocon 2008]
* [http://web.mac.com/floydnorman/Site/Welcome.html Mr. fun, Floyd Norman's blog]
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