As of today, after nearly 38 years, Glen Keane, has left Disney.
March 23, 2012
Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Walt Disney Animation Studio,
After long and thoughtful consideration, I have decided to leave Disney Animation.
I am convinced that animation really is the ultimate art form of our time with endless new territories to explore. I can’t resist it’s siren call to step out and discover them.
Disney has been my artistic home since September 9,1974. I owe so much to those great animators who mentored me—Eric Larson, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston—as well as to the many other wonderful people at Disney whom I have been fortunate to work with in the past nearly 38 years.
Over these four decades I have seen so many changes, but the one thing that remains the same is that we all do this because we love it.
I am humbled and deeply honored to have worked side by side so many artists, producers and directors during my career here at Disney, and I am tremendously proud of the films which together we have created. I will deeply miss working with you.
With my most sincere and heartfelt good wishes for your and Disney’s continued artistic growth and success,
I got to paint one of the covers for Adventure Time #2, go buy the comic!!
Medium: Gouache on Watercolor Paper!
Broken Stone 20th Anniversary
In celebration of the 20 years that the story has been in existence, we were hoping to release the very first episode of our original series, titled “Broken Stone” this year. Unfortunately that’s not going to happen. This has been an extremely busy (and quite exciting) year for us, and unfortunately we weren’t able to allocate enough time towards the Broken Stone project to finish it in time. But that’s okay! We’d much rather not rush it.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Broken Stone, we’ve decided to share some extremely old (and previously classified) content from the world of Broken Stone. Below, you will find images and footage from the original issues and episodes that have never before been seen by anyone outside of CJC.
These first two images are from the VERY FIRST ISSUE, created in 1991! The story was originally titled “Ninja Man”, but it has long since changed as it was constantly rewritten.
These next few images are from what would be considered “Season 2”. Created in April 2000, the story picked up 10 years after the climactic events of Season 1. The images shown are from a bar fight scene that took place near the front of the issue.
And finally, in 2003 we made our first attempt at bringing the series into the world of animation. We decided to start with Season 2 (which was titled “Dragon Stones” at the time). Below you will find the first half of Episode 1, and it runs about 17 minutes. Don’t expect any mind blowing visuals! We actually used this project as a tool to learn Flash in general, and this was one of the VERY first things that we’ve created in it!
We’ve completed about 40 minutes worth of animation in total, which equated to about 5 episodes. We plan to eventually make it back to this portion of the story and completely reanimate everything.
The new Broken Stone series is in development as I type this, and we’re hoping to be releasing the first episode within the first quarter of 2012.
Check out this interview that Bryan Waterman recently did with the Brookline Patch about The Waterman Movie!
New Project!
Over the past few months, we’ve been working on an idea for a new project that randomly came to mind. We don’t have an official title for it yet, and we can’t really share much about the story (since it’s all still being ironed out), but here’s a sneak peak at the main cast of characters!
We thought that it would be pretty cool to give each character their own unique look and “vibe” by having them each independently designed by different people. So, we teamed up with artist/writer wizard Lexa Forsyth (Known as lexarr in the tumblr world) to help bring these characters to life, and she did an incredible job! Not only did she deliver an awesome visual concept, but she brought along with it the heart and soul of the character as well! We couldn’t be happier with the results!
That’s about all we can share for now, but more details about this project will become available as we continue pushing forward with it!
The first two minutes of the hilarious animated feature length movie that we’re working on RIGHT NOW! Starring the legendary Leslie Nielsen!
Hello! This tumblr page follows the adventures of three brothers who are completely self taught in the ways of animation. We're constantly learning and improving as we go. Our primary focus is in 2D animation, but we're in the process of expanding into the world of 3D. You can check out our website at: www.CJCENT.com
