Episode 46: John Musker (Moana/Treasure Planet/Aladdin/Hercules/etc) Shares How He Became A Director

This episode features Disney Director John Musker who’s known for Moana, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog among other films. He shares how he got his start at Disney and worked his way up to become a director. You’ll also learn: *John’s strategy for getting into Disney *A first-hand experience of what working at Disney was like during the 80s and 90s *John’s 9 pieces of advice for those pursuing animation ~[Sponsored Message]~ This episode is sponsored by Bloop Animation, which is an animation learning platform packed with premium online video courses for aspiring animation filmmakers. They have courses for all major animation programs like Maya, Animate CC, Toon Boom, Blender, TVPaint, and many others, as well as some non-software courses like a storyboarding course, Animation foundations course, and even one about making graphic novels, which covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. The courses are all in video-form, so there’s no deadlines or application process, you simply pick a course and start learning in seconds. They even offer a free ebook titled “Making an animated short”, which covers their entire process, step-by-step, of how they made one of their films, from coming up with the idea, to storyboarding, animation and all the way to exporting the film. You can get that book for free at www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry. You can check out their complete course library at www.bloopanimation.com/courses. *Free ebook on making a short film: www.bloopanimation.com/animationindustry *Bloop Animation’s course library: www.bloopanimation.com/courses ~~ More about John Musker: John Musker is an accomplished animator, director, producer, and writer. He directed Disney’s Moana, Treasure Planet, and The Great Mouse Detective among other films. In 2019 John is currently retired and traditionally animating his own short film. Learn more about this podcast at https://terryibele.com/animation-industry-podcast/