Disney Animators Eric Goldberg & Dan Abraham on Robin Williams at Magic of Disney Animation!
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AI GeneratedThe speaker reflects on the nostalgia associated with the Florida Animation Studio and the emotional significance of including the character Robbie in the short \"Once Upon a Studio,\" highlighting how animating beloved characters for Disney's 100th anniversary serves as a profound, full-circle moment for the artists involved.
I think one of the big nostalgia triggers is Back to Neverland.
And that this space used to be the Florida Animation Studio.
Loved the Back to Neverland show.
It had an awful lot of people.
Um, and, you know, I see references to it all throughout.
And, uh, it's a little sad.
I was just thinking of pain.
Anybody remember that?
Uh, yeah.
So when we were making Once Upon a Studio,
an animator, Michael Woodside, came and said,
can we put this guy, and he had drawn a picture of Robbie,
can we put him in the short?
And I said, yes, absolutely.
Let's make sure that we get the rights and that everything's cool
and let's get him in there.
Because, like, I had worked here in 93,
so I had been, you know, seen this many, many, many, many times
and loved him.
And so then we had Michael animate Robbie Williams on a studio.
And then he animated him again for the extended,
the deluxe version of Once Upon a Studio.
The immersive version.
And he's, boy, Michael was like,
if you would have told 10-year-old Mikey that he was going to be able,
the next time that this character was going to be animated
was going to be by him for an attraction that celebrates 100 years of Disney.
That's, you know, that's the kind of stuff that animators get, like,
teary-eyed over.
That stuff.
It means so much.
Those characters are so real and so influential.
It's what lights us all up.
So moments like that.

