The Walt Disney Family Museum Education

"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."Walt Disney

Happy #InternationalWomensMonth! At The Walt Disney Studios, the Ink & Paint Department was led by a team of women who were in charge of tracing the outlines of the animators' pencil lines, then filling in the characters with their respective colors. Did you know that Mary Weiser taught herself paint chemistry to develop her own paint for the department? This made the Disney Studios the first and only animation studio to create their own paints. In our Learning Center, students get to be an inker and painter for the day, tracing and coloring their own characters.

Now students can visit The Walt Disney Family Museum without ever leaving school. Benefitting from embedded digital media content, this walk-through the museum brings Walt’s inspirational message to life. Classes learn about his early failures, the art of animation, storytelling principles, and the technological innovations that made classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) possible. Free for K12 school groups. For adult group rates, please contact [email protected]. http://bit.ly/32LvyzT

Wind can be a difficult element to illustrate in animation, as its effects are more visible than its presence. Disney films like The Old Mill (1937) perfectly depict the illusion of wind while showing the range of a soft breeze to a wild storm. Breeze through our Studio Series workshop to learn more about the history of wind effects in animation and create your own short piece of animation. Youth and adult sessions are available.