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Disney's Nine Old Men were a group of Walt Disney Productions' core animators, [1] who worked at the studio from the 1920s to the 1980s. Some of the Nine Old Men also worked as directors, creating some of Disney's most popular animated movies from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Rescuers .
Marc Fraser Davis (March 30, 1913 – January 12, 2000) was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios.He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films, and was revered for his knowledge and understanding of visual aesthetics.
Harman and Ising still found work at the time as animation freelancers. Harman and Ising lent their former ink-and-painters to Walt Disney while Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was behind schedule. Disney afterward commissioned Harman and Ising to produce a Silly Symphony cartoon , in return.
Animator turned theme park designer Rolly Crump, who was instrumental in the design of early Disneyland, died Sunday in his Carlsbad home. He was 93.
Ralph Kent (January 28, 1939 – September 10, 2007) was an American artist and Imagineer. His most famous work was for designing the first limited-edition Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse watch for adults. The design was so popular amongst Disney's executive team that Kent advised Disney artists on character models for decades to follow.
Don Williams, also known by the nickname Ducky, is an American illustrator employed by The Walt Disney Company.Williams has worked at Disney for over thirty years, at a number of different positions, finally ending up in the marketing division as an animator.
Although Walt Disney himself had not animated on his films since the earliest days of the studio, and by the 1950s was less present on a day to day basis when it came to the planning of the animated films, he still remained in charge of the major decisions on the artistic side. He reviewed all the work and gave it the final go-ahead.
Walt Disney Co.'s Marvel subsidiary has reached a settlement with the estate of former Marvel artist Steve Ditko over the rights to Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.