Cleaning the house, I found this old photo of the WDFAF (Walt Disney Feature Animation, Florida) 1997 trainees - except this was a reunion photo taken in 1998, when we had been at Disney for nearly a year. Along with the trainees are some of the personnel from Disney Florida's Artist Development program. The photo is taken inside the new Feature Animation building, which opened in April of 1998 (so this photo had to be taken sometime after that – but I am sure it was before the opening of Disney’s Mulan feature in June of that year). We all looked so young back then; we were mostly 20-something year-olds, but some of us could probably still pass for teenagers. I’m the guy kneeling in front row left, holding the sketchbook (I was rarely seen without one).
The thing I remember most about that day is the photographer suggested we all “do something funny", and John Cashman, lying on the floor in front of all of us, quipped, "This is as funny as I get!" (maybe you had to be there, but John was a natural comedian with perfect delivery, and this line still cracks me up to this day).
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