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Chris Sanders
Dean DeBlois
Brenda Chapman (though she's at Pixar now)
Mark Dindal
Gary Trousdale
Bonnie Arnold
Karey Kirkpatrick
Will Finn

Those are the first that come to mind, anyway. There are probably more.

Let them have Glen Keane who did his best, most remembered work in the '90s. At the rate DreamWorks is churning them out (ack), Glen can be a part of DreamWorks 50th film as well. Disney doesn't own him, so if he want's to tarnish his reputation with a stint at DreamWorks, let him.

Chris Sanders and DeanDeBlois haven't tarnished their reputation. I'm not going to pretend that Dreamworks finally seems to be priding quality over quantity, but perhaps if they actually put talented people in charge of movies, they'll end up with quality material.

Chris Sanders
Dean DeBlois
Brenda Chapman (though she's at Pixar now)
Mark Dindal
Gary Trousdale
Bonnie Arnold
Karey Kirkpatrick
Will Finn

Those are the first that come to mind, anyway. There are probably more.

Why do you assume this would tarnish his reputation? Dreamworks is capable of making good/great movies like Kungfu panda and how to train your dragon. They wouldn't bring him on just to work on Puss In Boots or some other crap.

DW might as well have two studios, they have so many things in projection at once. one can pump out Shrek sequels, and the other original, quality stuff.

Thanks. Can you fill me in what they were famous for doing in Disney?

All I know of Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois, and Gary Trousdale (though I wonder what Kirk Wise is doing since Gary is in DW).

Oh, and disneyprincess11, don't feel bad about the "NOOOOO" video! The movie critic guy was getting old, but that's the first Darth Vader I've seen, and I laughed out loud! It pretty much summed up my first reaction, too.

Excuse me, but....

Even though Lilo & Stitch is the only actual Disney movie he directed, Chris Sanders also worked on other Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Mulan and Runaway Brain, even if the latter doesn't technically count.

Chris Sanders
Dean DeBlois
Brenda Chapman (though she's at Pixar now)
Mark Dindal
Gary Trousdale
Bonnie Arnold
Karey Kirkpatrick
Will Finn

Those are the first that come to mind, anyway. There are probably more.

Brenda is not at Pixar anymore; she's still on Pixar's payroll due to some contractual obligations but she has left Pixar.

What happened to her? Did she just decide to quit or what?

I do know more about this firing then most of you do. I wouldn’t be talking about it if I didn’t. I saw the MOVIE (not just a pitch) 3 years ago and it was brilliant. It was truly awesome, even in it’s rough state. One of the best early screenings I’ve ever seen. All they had to was build and shape. I have it on good authority that it has been “noted to death”. This was a movie that she wrote and conceived. She based the central character on her DAUGHTER.

I would accept the possibility that the film just wasn’t working,….except that I saw a screening that was truly amazing. It was a film full of heart, brilliant characters, and great moments. I left the screening thinking “Holy sh**! This is going to open things up around here the way The Incredibles did!” The problems the film did have were fixable. The idea that this movie wasn’t her cup of tea is laughable. She conceived it from the ground up! For the film not to be working at this point, someone must have thrown a pretty big monks wrench into it.

(though I wonder what Kirk Wise is doing since Gary is in DW).

Wow, that's really terrible. Brenda's version sounds GREAT! If people are saying it's really good, John should leave that movie to be. And they would save us from another year of waiting by not changing it.

The details of how and why I left Pixar are well known to the people that matter. I cannot discuss the particulars of the case, as I am contractually bound not to do so. I will say this: NOT ONE person on the story crew or in many of the management positions felt my treatment was in anyway fair. Many came to me and told me I got a raw deal INCLUDING Brenda.

In addition, I CAN discuss how a few other folks have come to leave Pixar in recent years and say that maybe that might have some bearing on why I left. Here is the scenario: A story artist is brought in for an interview based on his portfolio and the strenght of his work at other studios. They like his drawing style, his approach to problem solving, his humor, and his approach to storytelling in general. He passes the interview with flying colors. He is a classic story man who can board an idea from scratch, board from a script and plus it, blue sky for gags, identify and diagnose structural problems and reccomend solutions and write usable dialogue. They hire him based on these strengths.

They assign him to a project where he discovers that at Pixar, you board from the script, and your job is basically to create perfectly drawn animatics with perfect layouts and perfectly on-model characters. Each sequence is roughly 800 to 1700 panels long, and they must be presented every friday. NO OVERTIME. This artist flounders. Why? BECAUSE HE HAS NEVER DONE THIS JOB BEFORE!!! The position of story artist means something else at Pixar. They have Michael Arndt, Andrew Stanton and people like that for IDEAS..they don’t need yours. You just illustrate what they want. This artist struggles…and is ultimately laid off.

It is the old Bait and switch. He was hired for one set of skills, and asked to do a job where none of those skills come into play. Like I said, this may or may not be what happened to me.

Am I angry? Eh..maybe. But I believe I have every right to be.

I would be lying if I didn't think there were certain times on this movie when I worried about being taken off it, so you do what you need to do.