Claude Coats and Evie Coats
Frank Thomas: Can anyone else do the kind of drawings Marc [Davis] and Ken [Anderson] do of character situations and are they important?
Claude Coats: It’s very, very important. Marc’s the best example of how it actually works, and the reason it works well is because of the animation training, the quickness with which you have to present a thing. You have to say it suddenly.
It all came because Walt liked to see things develop. He didn’t want to see it finally done, he wanted it to develop and he took that concept clear into Disneyland where they started with very rough ideas, or sketches, and finally something developed and buildings roughed in and finally it started to shape up and got cleaned up and better drawings made and architecture, and what kind of rides, and the mechanics, and what things have to be, and all the restrictions. Finally it was polished enough for a mock-up stage.
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Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - Letters of Otto Englander (Otto Englander)
- 2 - Jack Campbell [biography] (Steven Hartley)
- 3 - Van Kaufman (Mark Langer)
- 4 - Ward Kimball (Mark Langer)
- 5 - Bill Hurtz (Mark Langer)
- 6 - Fini Rudiger-Littlejohn (Michael Barrier)
- 7 - Fini (Josephine) Rudiger-Littlejohn (Helmut G. Asper)
- 8 - Eric Gurney interview and letters to Eric Gurney (Random House)
- 9 - Wilfred Jackson (Dave Smith)
- 10 - Eric Larson (John Culhane)
- 11 - Burny Mattinson (EMC West)
- 12 - Letter by George Harding Foster to Harrison B. Kinney (George Harding Foster)
- 13 - Marc Davis (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston)
- 14 - Claude Coats and Evie Coats
- 15 - Wathel Rogers (Dave Smith)
- 16 - Bob Otto (Michael Broggie)
- 17 - Marvin Davis and Marjorie Davis (Michael Broggie, Gary Oakland)
- 18 - Marty Sklar (Chuck Schmidt)
- 19 - Marty Sklar (Michael Broggie)
- 20 - Joe Fowler (Jay Horan)
- 21 - Rock Hall (Jim Korkis)
- 22 - Pat Burke (Alain Littaye)
Persons
Ollie Johnston (author)Frank Thomas (author)
Claude Coats (interviewee)
Evelyn Coats (interviewee)