There was a toast, some wine, some photos taken and then?
But there was even a crisis of cartoon identity even before Clements started his tenure at Disney.
The only thing that changed that was that the originalJungle Bookwas a huge success.
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Its what made them start thinking, Maybe we should keep this going.
And thats when they got a mindset to bring younger people in and train them.
Musker and Clements were part of that wave.
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I was 20 when I worked with him; he was 62.
And now Im 63.
And 63 is old.
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Animation is a craft that you learn in a master-apprentice way, he says.
Its a craft thats passed on.
Their experience guides you.
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Now, to a certain extent, were passing the torch to these other younger people.
I was so swept up in it because of them.
It just made me love the movie all the more.
But moreover, I see theres a ton of talent here.Young people everywhere.
He said that it seemed like the trip had really affected us emotionally, and he was right.
Our objective is we have a go at have fun doing it.
This isnt rocket science.
Its an art form, and its play.
It keeps you connected to your own childhood.
Thats what creates the illusion of a character.
I think the Nine Old Men would have appreciated it.
Every one of his movies was looking for some way forward.
Whether that was going from black and white to color, or the multiplane camera.
Thats what he was always really about.
Clements asserts, We definitely wrote those scripts as animated films.
But nowadays, I dont think theres anything you cant do in live-action.
If its going to be done with invented landscapes and characters, its an animated film!
Its hard for me to imagineLion King.
Its hard for me to imagine evenAladdin.
Our movies, in their own way, seem in my head a little harder to translate.
If theyre going to doThe Little Mermaid, that things going to be hard!
Good luck to them!
Do not make the mistake of taking their exasperation as ill-will, though.
Every one of these has its ups and downs, muses Musker.
We had some dark days on this movie, and some bright days.
This actually feels nostalgic, becauseMermaidwas worked on in a warehouse building like this, too.
Actually, we have a goodMermaidstory, offers Musker, unprompted.
Howard and Alan were there.
They performed the songs in between.
And thats when they realized, they never pressed record.
So we did it again.
The whole thing, a second time.
