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Tad Stones (born c.1952 in Burbank, California) is an American animator, screenwriter, producer and director best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003.
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- Family Central
- Life After Darkwing
- Aladdin, Iago and The Birth of Direct to Video Sequels
- Atlantis, The Lost Spin-Off
- What If?
- Yet Still One More Darkwing Duckquestion
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Tad Stones:
I learned so much on Rescue Rangers that I felt I corrected on Darkwing Duck. I had just wanted to do 30% better, but my feeling is 70% of what I wanted came through. Even so, we still made mistakes. There were times when DWwas a little more rubbery than I wanted him to be. We would do a gag where he reaches out of frame and pulls in something. Well, the storyboard guy instead of putting him next to the frame put him in the middle of the room and then suddenly he was Super-Stretch. We were wr...
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I had done all that work on my own. So Gary took me out to lunch and said, "Hey, we're doing this show and da-da-da-da," and I said, "It's kind of like The Jetsons. I don't know why they thought I would be happy he didn't realize I'd done all that artwork on my own. I didn't make a stink about it either. But basically by pitching it as another show it meant I couldn't go back and pitch Warp Wildeither. Gary showed it to Michael and Jeffrey. The guys said, "This is just The Jetsons it's been d...
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Now Aladdin was done by my good friends Ron Clements and John Musker. The studio had already done a Little Mermaid series so Aladdin wouldn't be the one to be adapted, but that was 13 episodes and this was going to be 65. JS: Whose idea was it to turn Aladdininto a series?
JS: At one point Atlantiswas going to be the next movie-based series; what happened? TS:It was the series that got killed on Friday the 13th. We were well into the development; I had a staff of 80 people and half the scripts written. The first show had been shipped overseas, the second was about to be shipped and another was in the pipeline. On Jul...
JS: Do you ever feel like, "Oh gosh, I should have stayed in features, that's where the real prestige, the real action is?"
JS: Talking about all these direct-to-video features, when are we going to see Darkwing Duck: The Movie?
Tad Stones, a veteran animator and director, talks about his work on Darkwing Duck, Warp Wild, and Aladdin. He also reveals how he pitched and produced the first direct-to-video sequel to Aladdin.
Tad Stones is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series Darkwing Duck and producing Chip 'n...
Sep 10, 2016 · Creator Tad Stones looks back on 'Darkwing Duck,' which got dangerous for the first time when it premiered 25 years ago this week. By Aaron Couch. September 10, 2016 10:14am....
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4,055 Followers, 214 Following, 564 Posts - Tad Stones (@tadstones) on Instagram: "Retired animation "veteran." Enjoy meeting with fans at conventions where I sell original art."
Darkwing Duck is an American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company and created by Tad Stones that ran during 1991 and 1992 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon, and on Saturday mornings on ABC.
