After Renovations, Disney’s Animation Building Will Be A Wide Open Hub Of Creativity
Meanwhile, the temporarily relocated writers and artists continue to work on the studio’s next projects.
The story of how Don Hall and Chris Williams, codirectors of the Oscar-nominated animated hit “Big Hero 6,” first came to work at Disney almost sounds like something out of a Disney movie.
Growing up far removed from Hollywood – Hall in the small town of Glenwood, Iowa, and Williams in Waterloo, Canada – both fell in love with drawing at an early age and both were deeply affected by classic Disney animated movies such as “Peter Pan,” “Bambi” and “Dumbo.” When each was hired by Disney to work as a story artist, it felt like the fulfillment of a wildly improbable dream.