The Little Mermaid, however, turned things around. Bringing in just half its production budget at the box office, The Black Cauldron nearly bankrupted Walt Disney Feature Animation. The widely-panned 1985 fantasy marked a low point in Disney’s slow but steady descent in critical and commercial success since the early ’70s.
“I remember going to the theaters to see The Black Cauldron and being pretty disappointed, feeling like Disney Animation had kind of dropped the ball,” he says.įrancoeur wasn’t alone in his assessment. When The Little Mermaid splashed into theaters in 1989, the film’s success marked the beginning of what’s now referred to as the “ Disney Renaissance.” The aquatic adventure ended a long drought for Disney Animation, which according to Francoeur had not released a major hit for quite some time. And it all begins with what professor Richard Morgan calls “art school on steroids.” Part I How did they all end up at DigiPen? While their paths have veered in slightly different directions on their journey here to Redmond, the majority of them share a similar story. Many of them have known each other since they graduated college and have worked together, both as animators and educators, for decades. They’re no strangers to one another either. DigiPen’s BFA faculty is indeed stacked with a number of people - nine to be exact - who previously worked on Walt Disney feature films. He’s referring, of course, to the large contingency of former Disney artists and animators who roam the halls of DigiPen on a daily basis. Though, later on in conversation, he does concede, “After a while, some of us did start jokingly calling it ‘Disney Pen.’” “It’s not like there’s this secret Disney cabal,” he says with a laugh. Jazno Francoeur, director of the BFA in Digital Art and Animation program, insists there isn’t a clandestine Disney conspiracy happening here at DigiPen. Discrimination & Harassment Incident Report.BS in Computer Science and Digital Audio.BS in Computer Science in Real-Time Interactive Simulation.BS in Computer Science in Machine Learning.Information for Teachers and Counselors.
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