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Joe Grant has just passed away and it made me sad. This is the man who was there when the military took over the animation company , wrote Dumbo, animated the cricket from mulan, worked on BOTH fantasias, and even the Incredibles and until his dying days worked for Disney feature animation.
i got the rest from another site:
Pause a moment to acknowledge a legend who has just left us. JOE GRANT died Friday afternoon May 6th,2005. Joe Grant (born 1908) was a story artist, writer and character designer who contributed to every Disney film from THREE LITTLE PIGS (1934), to the INCREDIBLES (2004). Joe was a major contributor to DUMBO, FANTASIA, SNOW WHITE and had a cocker spaniel named LADY from which LADY & The TRAMP derived. He retired from Walt Disney in 1949 to start his own graphic design firm. He returned to Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1992 to resume work on story. He contributed his expertise to ALADDIN, POCAHONTAS, TOY STORY I & II, A BUGS LIFE and FANTASIA 2000. He named the film MONSTERS INC, which before had been called SCAREY MONSTERS. Joe possessed the gentle humor that was quintessentially Disney, simple, visual and witty without becoming maudlin. Living and working to just short of his 97th birthday, he had amazing clarity and health. He was what Frederick Back referred to as "one of God¹s athletes." Joe died the death all artists would desire. At his drawing board, pencil in hand.
Plans for a memorial will be forthcoming.
-TS