At DisneyToon Studios

It was my day for going through DisneyToon Studios in Glendale. There's been some changes since the last time I visited. ....

Said various staffers:

We're down to about eighty people in the building. There's one Tinkerbell feature that's finishing up, then that's it for Tink. They were planning to have Tinkerbell get into some neat plot developments in the last one, but the last one's not happening now. The final two Tinkerbells aren't being done now. ...

There are projects in development, but nothing's been greenlit yet. The storyboard artists are working on shorts until we know what the next feature will be. The second Plane's project looks good, but I think management is waiting until it comes out later this year before making decisions about another one. ...

Features [Walt Disney Animation Studios] is moving development and publicity people over here in the next few weeks. We hear that they don't have enough space for everybody so people will be coming here. ...

I informed the person that mentioned feature personnel shifting over that the hat building, over in Burbank, is indeed bursting at the seams, particulalry with Big Hero Six going full tilt. So this last bit of news (assuming it's true) doesn't surprise me. There are a lot of empty cubicles on both sides of the Toons building and there's room for overflow staff from someplace else.

Talking to folks, it's clear that DisneyToon Studios is going through alterations just now.