Ken Muse test post

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):

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Fantasia model sheet, by Fred Moore

Tom the cat, by Ken Muse

Donald Duck, by Ken Muse

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1849

(Western) clothing optional.

Come celebrate the New Year at the

ANIMATION GUILD NOT-A-HOLIDAY HOLIDAY PARTY!

Friday, January 7, 2011
Starts at 7 pm
Entire museum open until 10 pm
Party lasts 'til midnight!

Autry National Center of the American West
In Griffith Park across from the L. A. Zoo
Free food * Cash bar * Plenty of free parking

No RSVPs necessary
Open to the community of animation and the community of labor

Here is a flyer for the party

Slideshow test

Surfing the web, I came across a real-estate listing for this house at 3763 Fredonia Drive overlooking Cahuenga Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills. Why is this house of interest to the readers of this blog?

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A Ralph Hulett Christmas, part 2

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for a full-sized image

[STEVE'S COPY HERE]

Ruben Aquino Interview

We here present our first TAG interview with a leading light of the animation industry, kicking off this new feature via a conversation with one of the pillars of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, supervising director Ruben Aquino ...

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We'll be running interviews throughout the coming year. They won't be appearing with any kind of metronomic clockwork, but as we get around to

A) Conducting them,

B) Editing them, and

C) Putting them up.

Hope you like the results.

alma test

As part of his deal with DreamWorks Animation, Guillermo Del Toro will produce a feature version of Rodrigo’s award-winning short Alma.

Blaas made the short on his own time while he was working as an animator at Pixar. He will direct the feature version of Alma, and will also co-direct the Trollhunters feature with Del Toro.

Candidate statement

Gordon Kent

Candidate for Executive Board

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I’ve been a member of the Animation Union since 1977 when I was an inbetweener at Hanna-Barbera. Since then I’ve worked at most of the major studios and been involved in most aspects of animation including storyboard, writing and story editing, producing, voice directing and, most currently, timing direction. I believe in a strong union and I believe that strength is best achieved through involvement. I hope you will allow me the privilege of getting involved.

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Here is the 2010 candidate slate.

Here are other posts about the 2010 TAG officers' election.