

We had to find some way to really get a handle on building the thing solidly.

Instead of a couple years, which is the studio standard, we had four weeks. When Joe and I were working on the story of THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER (1987), it was a big shift from our previous experience.

JERRY REES (director, THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER, former Disney animator) : It can really build the story. In June of 1988, shortly after the completion of THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER, John Canemaker moderated a conversation among Bill Peet, Joe Ranft, Jerry Rees and Peter Schneider about Storytelling in Animation.Īn excerpt from the resulting book (shown above) is presented below.ĬANEMAKER: Jerry, how important is personality in storytelling?
