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After reading about some rumors about friction between the animation teams for The Lion King and Pocahontas from a former-Disney inbetweener in a reddit thread, Vanessa Golembewski asked five former Disney animation employees to give them perspective on what was going on. Katzenberg had already lost any hope of becoming CEO, but he didn’t know it.Ī new article at Refinery29 delves into that period in Disney animation’s history. Sparky didn’t realize it at the time, but Michael Eisner giving him animation was his way of marginalizing him to a division Eisner did not see as core to the business. Katzenberg earned the nickname ‘Sparky’ both for his fireplug stature, but also for his fiery nature. Instead, he was seen as sticking his nose where it didn’t belong and trying to apply Hollywood principles that just didn’t apply to animation.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg was in charge of the animation department and had not yet developed the leadership style or animation knowledge that has helped Dreamworks Animation become a success. The short of it is that Disney animation was animating two animated features at the same time (“The Lion King” and “Pocahontas”) in order to meet a new accelerated schedule of one animated film a year. I never really felt comfortable talking about the internal affairs of Disney Animation as the time, I was still basically an outsider, but overtime, more details have been made public. I got a close look at some of the politics and manipulation during what was a tumultuous time for the Mouse House. Thanks to some very kind individuals I knew, I was able to hangout with the “Pocahontas” crew at Walt Disney Feature Animation a couple times and was invited to the wrap party for the movie.