Today, Glen Keane left Disney. Glen Keane is the man who inspired me to become an artist, and I am not the only one. It was because of him that I began to realize my dreams of becoming an animator, and I couldn’t thank him enough for that. Even though his leaving Disney has made me very sad, I respect his decision, and hope to see more great things in the future.
This is when Glen came back from his sabbatical. We had been working on this character for six months with modelers, trying to figure out what he was doing in the drawing, and we thought we were getting close. And then he came back, and he was just like, “well, if you just like, move the eyes here, and just, change the distance here, and move the nose…” and just little tweaks that he just had this, like, fresh eye on the character and just gave us this really quick guidance and within three days he did a couple drawings like this one. It’s kind of amazing how fast the rigs were done with once he was back in there…so this is a pose of that same drawing.
ctn expo 2010
reasons Glen Keane is my favorite animator ever
Glen Keane’s example of Rapunzel using her hair.
“He’s always making the expression that he’s drawing… he’s making the expression even more than what he’s drawing. We didn’t set this up, he’s really doing this.”
—John Kahr, when talking about Glen Keane