John DeCuir Jr. is an accomplished art director who worked on major motion pictures and served as a project design designer for Walt Disney and collaborated on creative projects connected to Jim Henson.

John DeCuir, Jr. has designed feature films, films for television and themed exhibitions in Italy, Spain, France, England, Ireland, Japan, Canada, and throughout the United States. He has been credited as Art Director on Ghostbusters and Production Designer on Top Gun Sister Act II, Turner & Hooch, Fright Night and many others. He was a student apprentice on, Cleopatra, Agony & the Ecstacy and Taming of the Shrew. In his years working at Disney, he was credited as Project Designer, on the master plan for Walt Disney's EPCOT & World Showcase He was project designer for Spaceship Earth & the original Communicore. John also assisted Disney in other theme park film attractions such as Jim Henson's 3_D Muppet Movie, Alien Encounter, and EPCOT's Energy pavilion. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree (cum laude) from the University of Southern California and completed two years of graduate work at USC's Institute of Building Research & Technology. He has lectured and taught at UCLA, USC, The American Film Institute, Columbia College Chicago and Asbury University. In addition, he also conducts an online class, Design For Film, Television & Theater and is working on two books, The Architecture of Illusion and Travels with Dad.

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Original YouTube air date 3-26-24

The Dapper Danielle is a beloved Disney content creator and published author and artist known for her stylish DisneyBounding looks and creative fashion storytelling.

- Macro-level influencer on TikTok and micro-niche influencer on Instagram that weaves together historical facts and modern-day entertainment.- Since 2020, Danielle's TikTok presence has grown to 391,80000 followers and 12.7 million likes with an average engagement of 16%.- #thedapperdanielle hashtag has been viewed over 56 Million times on TikTok.- Danielle's expansion to Instagram has gained 46,000 followers since the fall of 2022 with follower growth increasing by an average of 33% per month.- On Instagram, over 79,000 accounts engage with Danielle's Reels and static content in 90 days with over 900,000 accounts reached.

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Original YouTube air date March 6, 2024

Joel Payne has worked closely with Disney, Disney Imagineers, and Digital Backlot, building a strong foundation within the creative Disney landscape. He has made his mark in the world of artistry through his contributions to Disney Fine Art.

A native Californian, Joel Christopher Payne's story starts with a life changing moment at the age four that would change the course of his life forever. Joel tells us, “My earliest memory that inspired my career came when I was riding on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and I looked up to my mom and said, Look Mom! Look how real the robots are!! At which point my mother without hesitation replied , -son, those are the waiters at the Blue Bayou... You'd think I was destroyed... but it was in that moment that I realized just how amazing Walt Disney really was. I couldn't tell difference between the fantasy and the real thing and I knew that I wanted to learn how to harness this kind of unique magic!” Disneyland and Disney feature animation would ignited a lifelong passion in Joel that would lead him to inspire others through his own style of breakthrough art.In 1996, Joel finally got his chance to work with Disney on “Disney's Virtual Jungle Cruise” ride still in operation in Florida's Disneyquest. Responsible for creating the rides river rafting track and 3D backgrounds, Payne learned from Disney Imagineers about the power of storytelling, color and lighting techniques that he still uses in his paintings today.From 1996 to present day, Joel would go on to build 3D worlds for Steven Spielberg's “Sky Pirates”, Art Directing Disney's Atlantis the video game, Mortal Kombat:Shaolin Monks, Max Steel and Star Ship Troopers:Roughnecks, Silent Hill:Homecoming and Baldur's Gate:Dark Alliance. He would also score film music for world renown Stan Winston.In 2008 Joel would head up Universal Studios very first virtual version of their world famous Backlot facades creating digital doubles of the famous "Back to the future courtyard" and in 2009 Joel's company Digital Backlot would design 75 original 3D characters for the project Growums. Featured on the show “The View” Joel not only animated the growums characters, but like Walt, voiced several of the lead characters to the tune of more than 100 cartoons.

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Original YouTube air date 2-27-24

Gary K. Wolf is best known as the author of Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981), which was adapted into the hit Disney feature-length film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

Gary's works include:Killerbowl (September 26, 1975) A Generation Removed (May 27, 1977) The Resurrectionist (July 20, 1979)Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (June 6, 1981) Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? Amityville House of Pancakes Vol 3 Space Vulture (March 4, 2008) Penumbra eMag Vol 1 Issue 10 (July 2012) The Late Great Show! (October 5, 2012)Typical Day (December 7, 2012) Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? (November 29, 2013)Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business (May 4, 2022)

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Original YouTube air date 2-6-24