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Feb 25, 2022 · Disney's first Black animator, Floyd Norman, has been making magic for over six decades. And at 86, he's still going strong.
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Nov 20, 2022 · Someone who has both witnessed and been there for a large part of the studio’s journey – over a whopping span of 66 years – is legendary animator and writer, Floyd Norman.
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Aug 2, 2017 · At 82 years old, Floyd Norman still draws crowds, from his live chat/sketching events at Comic-Con to this week's computer graphics conference, SIGGRAPH. "I have no plans to retire," he...
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Feb 16, 2022 · Since February 7th, the film is now available to stream on the Criterion Channel, along with a selection of short films made by Vignette Films, Inc., one of the first Black-owned production companies in Hollywood that was created by Norman along with Leo Sullivan, Norman Edelen and Richard Allen.
Floyd E. Norman (born June 22, 1935) [1] is an American animator, writer, and cartoonist. Over the course of his career, he has worked for various animation companies, among them Walt Disney Animation Studios , Hanna-Barbera Productions , Ruby-Spears , Film Roman and Pixar .
Jul 8, 2020 · While Black people are not a monolith, it’s still surprising to hear Norman’s support for Song Of The South. He’s a Black animation icon. As told in the documentary about him, Floyd Norman: An Animated Life , Norman, now 85, started working for Disney in 1957 as an in-betweener on Sleeping Beauty.
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Floyd Norman is an artist and an animator. He is associated with the Disney studios and has been working in the field of animations for the past 65+ years. He was born on 2 June 1935, in Santa Barbara California. Norman grew interested in the particular field from his childhood when he watched his first Disney movie, Dumbo in 1941.
