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Our first Megacollector post for 2011 starts off with a Fantasia model sheet by Fred Moore. The other images are by Ken Muse (1910-1987).

Muse started his professional career as an assistant on Fantasia, then graduated to animator on several Mickey shorts. He left Disney after the 1941 strike and signed on at MGM, where he spent seventeen years in the Hanna-Barbera unit, working on over one hundred and twenty shorts.

After MGM closed he followed his mentors to the new Hanna-Barbera studio, where he animated the pilot episode of a new show called "The Flagstones," and eventually worked on pretty much every show at the studio until he retired. (Little known fact: late in his life he did some uncredited assisting on The Fox and the Hound.

Here's the best-known piece of Ken Muse animation, the Gene Kelly-Jerry Mouse sequence from Anchors Aweigh (1945):

Click the thumbnails for full-page images from the slideshow:

Fantasia model sheet, by Fred Moore

Tom the cat, by Ken Muse

Donald Duck, by Ken Muse