Playing with Toys

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The War Room story artists—Jim Capobianco, Matthew Luhn, and Sanjay Patel—hard at work.

Reinventing Animation

It was the early 1990s. I decided to stop in Pasadena's Old Town on my way home from the studio. I had just parked on Green Street when I noticed a car pull up directly behind me. A tall young man stepped out of the vehicle and called my name. Though I had not seen him in months, I immediately recognized my old friend Joe Ranft. “Floyd,” he shouted. “You've got to come up north. We've got some great things going at our studio.” I had just signed a contract with Disney Feature Animation and purchased a town home in Pasadena, so I reluctantly begged off. It was a decision I came to regret, because the project ...

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