Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Brian Ferguson Interview -- Part II



Brian Ferguson's first professional gig after Sheridan was working on Care Bears episodes at Nelvana Animation in Tortonto. His second gig was short animation pieces in New York City ...

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But his career didn't kick into high gear until he applied for a job with Disney Feature Animation in California.

The animation division had just release The Little Mermaid, and had relocated to an industrial neighborhood in Glendale. Brian was quickly put to work as a rough inbetweener on the Mickey featurette The Prince and the Pauper, working for both Mark Kausler and Andreas Deja, and says that he learned a great deal from both of them.

By the time of Beauty and the Beast, he was animating.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice interview. It would have been great to hear the full Ed Catmul story. There aren't many out there about him. Also, wish you (Steve) would stop answering your own questions or leading your guests with potential responses. Every time you do that I find myself wondering what they would have said had you not prompted them.

Steve Hulett said...

I'll go to work on my shortcomings.

Unknown said...

Thanks. I'll continue working on mine too. You're never too old, you know. Would you prefer no criticism? My intention is to help you improve these interviews.

Steve Hulett said...

No, no. Criticism is fine. In this job, I get it a bit.

Seriously, I will strive to ask less leading questions. We all do the best we can.

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