Sublime

viewers are apt to be more forgiving of the animated movements of animals than they are of human movement.

My new conclusion is therefore as follows: Mr. Bug Goes to Town is both wonderful and incredibly stupid. People say Dave Fleischer created it, but I would like to extend my heartfelt greetings and congratulations to the nameless staff members who managed to claw their way out of his control. (It’s okay if they only exist in my imagination.) I do wo

Tex Avery’s cartoon Billy Boy,

That animator was John Lasseter. Unbeknownst to me, soon after our meeting at Lucasfilm, he would lose his job at Disney. Apparently, his supervisors felt that The Brave Little Toaster was—like him—a little too avant-garde. They listened to his pitch and, immediately afterward, fired him.