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Both cameos also included Frank Thomas. On November 10, 2005, Ollie Johnston was among the recipients of the prestigious National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush in an Oval Office ceremony. Ollie Johnston died of natural causes on April 14, 2008, at the age of 95.
Frank and Ollie is a 1995 documentary film about the life and careers of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two chief animators who had worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios from its early years until their retirement in the late 1970s. It was directed, produced and written by Theodore Thomas, Frank Thomas' son.
Welcome to the Official Website of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. It was created, written, and drawn by us personally. We have only just begun...on the Web that is. We have been working together since 1934 with 43 of those years as animators, supervising animators and directing animators for Walt Disney Studios!
Before computer graphics and special effects, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest Disney animators of all time — Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. It was their creative genius that helped make Walt Disney animation synonymous with brilliant artistry, magnificent music, and emotional storytelling.
Oliver Martin "Ollie" Johnston, Jr. was an American animator, who was one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men. Ollie was best friends with fellow animator Frank Thomas. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989.
Disney's twelve basic principles of animation were introduced by the Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation. The principles are based on the work of Disney animators from the 1930s onwards, in their quest to produce more realistic animation.
Mar 21, 1997 · English. The most complete book on the subject ever written, this is the fascinating inside story by two long-term Disney animators of the gradual perfecting of a relatively young and particularly American art from, which no other move studio has ever been able to equal.
