“I... I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone.” Paris, Texas (1984) director Wim Wenders …Beautiful Super 8 sequence…📽️

A Desk's Journey.... Here a little story about my old Disney animation desk. Someone recently contacted me about it. (I signed the underside of the tabletop)... #disneyanimation #kdunc9 #animationdesk

Animating Jane during "Tarzan". #animator #disneyanimation #tarzanjane #canadian #lefthanded

"Hercules Footage Report". The final weekly report. We used "footage" to asses the work total. (1 foot = 16 frames of 35mm film). The goal was to average 5' a week (16x5 =80 frames). My own animation total was 4 minutes of the film. Along with supervising others, and attending countless meetings.

I'd been finishing up the animation of Meg, when I was asked by the Tarzan directors to be Supervising Animator of "Jane". The film was already in production so I started later the other animators. Some of Tarzan was already rough animated, such as this one; this is one of my early Jane tests.

Additional Belle scenes that I animated; the Library sequence....some in color, some as pencil tests. The Beast was beautifully animated by Tony DeRosa. (clip via Giuseppe di Maio) #beautyandbeast #belle #disneyanimation #penciltest #2danimation

Belle Animation The 2nd film I'd worked on after arriving at Disney. I mainly animated some of Belle in the film, including these scenes with Gaston. Animators: Belle- Ken D. Gaston- Andreas Deja LeFou-Chris Wahl Bimbettes- Dave Burgess #beautyandbeast #belle #disneyanimation #bellegaston

Meg's kiss; My animation of the kiss; it seemed appropriate that Meg took charge here. Hercules animation: Andrea's Deja (Thanks for Jake Lee Animation's post) #herculesmeg #penciltest #2danimation #kiss #disneyanimation

Aladdin: During the "Friends Like Me" song, I animate these belly dancers who appear from flames and run over to Aladdin. The producer, who took belly dance classes, advised that placing one foot forward on a toe will allow the hip/pivot action. #bellydance #penciltest #2Danimation #aladdin

Although I wasn't the supervisor of Jafar, I was part of the animation team, during "Aladdin". This is one of the scenes I animated. He was calm in the shots prior to this one (speaking to king) and then he builds into this anger... #jafar #disneyhercules #2danimation #kdunc9 #penciltest

More Captain Amelia designs Trying out head shapes, costumes, promotions, etc. It would take several weeks/months to get a final approved design (it needed to be animatable). #captainamelia #characterdesign #treasureplanet #femaleleader #kdunc9 #2danimation #disneyanimation

Scroop test: Treasure Planet's ship was CG. I thought it'd be cool to have camera motion for his scenes. I animated his lower body in CG set and his upper body performance on paper. Unfortunately the film didn't have many camera moves to need this approach. Voice: Brad Dourif. #scroop #penciltest

Scroop; Voice actor (Mark Hamill would have been cool). Scroop was painted digitally using Corel Painter (circa 1999) #scroop #treasureplanet #voiceactor #villain

Scroop: Although I focused on animating "Captain Amelia", I also Supervised "Scroop" I animated this scene early in production. He was designed with a spider/crab lower body, crab claws, insect head, and some human upper body. Note his weird tongue. "Creepy" was the goal. #scroop #treasureplanet

Doppler; During the early design phase of "Treasure Planet", I sketched a few ideas for Doppler. At the time, the directors wanted Jeff Goldblum to voice the character. (Sergio Pablos would design/animate Doppler). #doppler #treasureplanet #characterdesign #2danimation

Jane Pencil tests. I tried to Jane develop as a character during the film. When we first see her she moves in a quick staccato way. Later, after meeting Tarzan, and more relaxed (& costume change), her animation is more "even", more smooth arced motion. #tarzanjane #disneyanimation #penciltest

Disney Days; Wandering around and taking photos. -Doug Frankel: Supervising animator, Kingdom of the Sun(New Groove) -Directors Ron Clements and John Musker during Hercules (& Mermaid, Aladdin, Moana) -Hercules crew of Supervisors, and visiting Paris animators -Clean-Up Supervisor Marshall Toomey

Photo I took of Joe Grant, circa 1999. Joe began at Disney in 1932 designing for the shorts. He designed the Witch in Snow White, wrote the screenplay for Dumbo, helped Walt choose music for Fantasia. He was basically Walt's creative right-hand man. Joe left Disney in 1952 returned in the 80s.

The original introduction of Jane, that I'd animated. The decision was to remove this gag in the end and was simplified. #tarzanjane #gag #2danimation #kdunc9 #disneyanimation #kenduncananimation

Disney Animation; 1995 I took this long exposure photo, using a 1962 Rolleiflex film camera. The posters are for "Toy Story", which would premiere 2 weeks later and transform animated films. My office was behind the "N" on the left. #disneyanimation #animationstudio #architecture #rolleiflex

Animation building; 1997 Took this while leaving one evening. Someone was packing up their office and heading to Dreamworks. #disneyanimation #animationstudio #bwphotography #animation

More photos I took at Disney in the 90's: -Andreas Deja, Yzma Supervising animator -James Lopez & Brian Ferguson, Pain & Panic Supervising animators -Hercules Story meeting, Directors John Musker & Ron Clements at right -Tarzan Director Chris Buck, waiting to review animation #disneyanimation

I would often walk around and photograph fellow crew members at Disney: -Mark Pudleiner, Animator on my Meg team. We were college classmates. -Juliet Duncan, Clean-up Supervisor on Jane & Amelia -Bob Bryan, animator on Jane team -Bill Waldman, Hercules animator #animator #kdunc9 #disneyanimation

A few pencil tests of Megara. The first shot shows a rough pass at animation. I first draw stick-figure versions to capture the idea for the scene. Don't want to spend time on clean drawings if the idea isn't good. Then I spend time. #disneyhercules #megara #disneyanimation #characterdesign #kdunc9

More of my design drawings of Megara. Exploring hair styles, costume design, etc. all with Grecian shapes mind... #disneyhercules #megara #disneyanimation #characterdesign #femmefatal

More of my Captain Amelia design drawings.... #captainamelia #treasureplanet #characterdesign #kdunc9 #kenduncananimation

More Captain Amelia designs I explored during character development.... Some were based on ideas from the other vis-dev artists. We explored Amelia having tentacles for hair(less of a cat alien). #captainamelia #treasureplanet #characterdesign #kdunc9 #kenduncananimation

Captain Amelia; Some of my early drawings, as we explored Amelia's design. #captainamelia #treasureplanet #characterdesign #2danimation

Captain Amelia pencil test; The posing of Doppler was roughed out first. I followed up with rough animation of Amelia, and then Mr. Arrow was done. Animators: Doppler- Sergio Pablos Amelia- Moi Mr. Arrow- T. Dan Hofstedt #treasureplanet #2danimation #penciltest #disneyanimation #kenduncananimation

Megara pencil tests. Several scenes I'd animated of Meg in "Hercules". I would have done very rough drawings at first...these scenes are my final drawings before it moved to the "clean-up" dept. Hercules was animated by Andreas Deja. #disneyhercules #penciltests #meganimation #2danimation

Jane Character Design; At the start of the design process, a clothing "historian" brought in various pieces of Victorian era clothing, which was very helpful for us. #tarzanjane #characterdesign #victorian #2danimation

More Jane pencil tests; The first few drawings are my rough "stick-figure" version of Jane; the remainder are my "tie down" drawings and "inbetweens" from an Assistant. Tarzan was done first, by another animator. Then I animated Jane reacting. #tarzanjane #disneyanimation #2danimation #penciltest

Directed by George Stevens, Giant is an epic portrayal of a powerful Texas ranching family challenged by changing times and the coming of big oil. Women who demand having their opinions heard. Segregation that eventually becomes integration.

Animation pencil test of "Jane". This was one of the longer scenes in a Disney animated film. A great vocal performance by Minnie Driver...such a fun scene to animate! #tarzanjane #janeanimatiin #penciltest #tookmyboot #disneyanimation

Jane, early design exploration; body poses #characterdesign #tarzanjane #disneyanimation

More of Jane; early design exploration #characterdesign #tarzanjane #disneyanimation

Jane: Tarzan Early design drawings. At this stage we are trying to create a unique personality. So we explore attitudes, poses and facial expressions. And then I would begin animation tests to ensure the design can animate well. #tarzanjane #disneytarzan #characterdesign #2Danimation -

Captain Amelia; Treasure Planet The final approved design of Amelia that I'd drawn. Her hair, to me, black.... so I was surprised when I saw the first scenes in color with reddish brown hair!☺️ #captainamelia #treasureplanet #characterdesign #disneyanimation

Captain Amelia; Treasure Planet Some of my early design drawings as we explored wait alien type she was. In the 3rd image I used a "George Washington" hair style. #captainamelia #treasureplanet #alien #leader #captain #disneyanimation #characterdesign

Lunchtime Doodles #doodle #cartoon #lunchtime #fun

Needing Love #doodle #sad #love #kisses

Megara Hercules As a Supervising Animator, we also helped design our characters. These are some of my early design drawings of Meg, exploring attitudes, hair designs, etc. #disneyhercules #megara #disneyanimation #femmefatal #design

Duncan Doodle Smartly dressed little guy, with integrity #inkpen #doodle #duncananimation #cute #cartoon #rabbit

Duncan Doodle; Strollin' #inkpen #doodle #duncananimation #cute #cartoon

El Royale Apartments; Hancock Park, L.A. Several celebrities have lived here over the years: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, George Raft, Nicholas Cage, Jack Black, Cameron Diaz, etc.

On the way home from work I swung by Bob's Big Boy to grab a coffee, and their Friday night car show was happening!

Among Nature La Cañada, L.A. Maui, Hawaii Richmond Upon Thames, England San Gabriel Mountains, L.A.

Around town; Pasadena- Motel Altadena Public Library Culver City- Kirk Douglas Theater Bunker Hill- The Broad Museum #losangeles #laarchitecture

Surfer vibe Santa Barbara

Disney Animation building; 1995 I took this photo was a week before Toy Story premiered, and changed the animation industry (posters are for Toy Story). My office at the time was the window behind the "A". #toystory #disneyanimation #animationbuilding #90s