Bill Plympton: The King of Independent Animation
In the early ninties, Walt Disney Studios was amping up production on a few new features, and were looking for some fresh new talent. The eighties had not been great for the studios, between the poor releases of films like The Black Cauldron, and Don Bluth startig a rival studio. Sp they needed to quickly switch direction, and they figured some new faces could do that. While on the hunt, they heard about a young independent animator with an oscar-nominated short film Your Face , and decided to make an offer. His film had alot of metamorphasis, which would be very useful in their new film Aladdin, so they decided to make him an offer. One million dollars for his work on the production on Aladdin over the next three years. It was more money that he had ever dreamed of, he couldn't believe it, Disney, the dream of every young animator, came knocking had his door with a truckload of money. The was only one problem... ...he said no. ...