Pixar Takeover Leaves Disney Animators Demoralized Says Report Message Board and Comments

ContactMusic.com is running a report with a very biased and inaccurate headline: "Pixar Takeover Leaves Disney Animators Demoralized, Says Report" (re: a report on JimHillMedia.com) . This approach takes an already spinning , biased anti-Pixar opinion piece by Mr. Jim Hill and spins it to sound even worse than what Jim Hill insinuated in his original report. It is absolutely not true that Disney Animators are demoralized by the new leadership of John Lasseter and Ed Catmull at Disney Animation. The opinion piece that Jim Hill wrote (which was picked up by Studio Briefing and posted on IMDB.com and now here on ContactMusic.com) was based on some anonymous email that Jim Hill received from a disgruntled "Disney executive" , not from any animator or other creative artist at Disney Animation. I can well believe that many of the middle-management hacks who have been running Disney Animation into the ground over the last 10 years are threatened by the new leadership of Pixar's Ed Catmull and John Lasseter , but all the animators I know at Disney are very happy to have Ed and John at the helm . I think you have the editorial responsibility not to allow the spread of gossip under the guise of "reporting" on what's going on in the animation industry. Do some fact-checking before you run this sort of story. Jim Hill is notorious for his rumor-mongering, but even his original article about the dissatisfaction and sniping of some middle-management people at Disney directed towards John Lasseter and Ed Catmull was not as misleading as printing the misleading headline : "Pixar Takeover Leaves Disney Animators Demoralized, Says Report". I'll say it again: I know a lot of animators at Disney (and former Disney artists like myself) who are very happy to see the fresh new creative leadership of John Lasseter and Ed Catmull at Disney Animation. For an alternative viewpoint check out Steve Hulett's blog The Animation Guild Blog. Steve Hulett is the business manager of the Los Angeles-based Animation Guild which represents artists working in animation in Los Angeles County . He is closely connected with what's happening "in the trenches" at the various animation studios , including Disney . Steve reports that the artists at Disney are very pleased with the new direction of the Disney Animation dept. under the leadership of John Lasseter. http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/jmh-and-whining-execs.html