"The Great Prince passes by, very serious and stern, and very slowly Bambi's expression changes: He drops his ears slightly and looks a little scared.
"On the meadow, Bambi sees the Great Prince and gives him this big smile," Deja said. He quickly rose through the artistic ranks, working as an assistant to Fred Moore, who supervised the animation of the Seven Dwarfs in " Snow White" (1937).ĭisney animator Andreas Deja, whose work includes Lilo in "Lilo and Stitch" (2002), praised the subtlety of Johnston's work in "Bambi," especially the scene in which Bambi sees his father, the Great Prince of the Forest, for the first time. Thomas went to work at Disney's studio on Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles in September 1934 Johnston joined the studio in January 1935. Roosevelt's description of the Supreme Court.Īfter graduating, Johnston followed Thomas to Los Angeles, where they studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. Walt Disney gave the name to his key group of animators, playing off President Franklin D. He studied art at Stanford, where he met Frank Thomas, who would become his lifelong friend and another of the Nine Old Men. 31, 1912, Johnston was the son of the head of the Romance languages department at Stanford University. He brought those same qualities to his life, and to all of our lives who knew him."īorn in Palo Alto on Oct. "He brought warmth and wit and sly humor and a wonderful gentleness to every character he animated. and they all did," Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney, said in a statement. "One of Ollie's strongest beliefs was that his character should think first, then act.
Disney, director emeritus and consultant for the Walt Disney Co., called Johnston "one of the real pioneers of our art." He was a great and nuanced animator who could handle sentiment and comedy with equal aplomb, as well as a sweet and generous mentor to many." Oscar-winning animator and historian John Canemaker said, "Ollie's death truly marks the end of the 'Golden Age' of hand-drawn Disney character animation that blossomed in the 1930s. Smee trying to follow Captain Hook's orders in "Peter Pan" (1953) Baloo performing "The Bare Necessities" in "The Jungle Book" and the penguin-waiters serving Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins" (1964).
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Johnston's work included such memorable moments as Pinocchio's nose growing when he lied to the Blue Fairy in the 1940 movie Thumper reciting his lesson about eating clover greens under his mother's watchful eye in "Bambi" the befuddled Mr.
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