David Rosenthal: belief

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…And it's not surprising because if you give the creative brief to Walt and Ub, take something that's kinda working but apply your style. Their style was great. I mean, they were emotional animators. There's a great quote in the book Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas that says, "before Disney, cartoons were slapdash, two-dimensional characters in bizarre movement before elemental backgrounds. Disney insisted on rounded, humanized figures. He wanted the humor to come out of the character, not the outrageous action." So it's sorta like, hey, here's the template, but Disney-fy it or Iwerks-ify it in a way that really can speak to people. Well, I think it really was the partnership of the two of them. I think Iwerks had immense artistic talent as an animator and was able to do that. And Walt had taste, like he recognized it and he knew when and where to apply it. Yep.…

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