This week hosts Aljon Go (@aljongo) and Dave Bossert (@dave_bossert) talk former Disney Animator, David Pruiksma. 

Pruiksma worked on the films The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, and The Rescuers Down Under. He rose to supervising animator and created the characters of Mrs. Potts and her son Chip for Beauty and the Beast. Other characters included the Sultan for Aladdin, Pumbaa for The Lion King, Flit for Pocahontas, and the characters Hugo and Victor for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. After completing work on 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Pruiksma left Disney and worked freelance as an animation director and storyboard artist for the Cartoon Network series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. For more visit the David Pruiksma Bio Page and CAT Animation (cat-animation.com). Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Purchase Dave Bossert's new award-winning book "3D Disneyland - Like You've Never Seen It Before at theoldmillpress.com. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

This week hosts Aljon Go (@aljongo) and Dave Bossert (@dave_bossert) talk to Disney Legend, Bob Gurr about his early career, his time at the Walt Disney Company, and working on projects for Steve Wynn's Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. Gurr is an amusement ride designer and Disney Imagineer. His most famous work was for Walt Disney's Disneyland Park, and its subsequent sister parks. Gurr is said to have designed most, if not all, of the ride vehicles of the Disneyland attractions, including Autopia, Haunted Mansion, the Disneyland Monorail, the Submarine Voyage, and the Matterhorn Bobsleds. He was named a Disney Legend in 2004. He also worked on the King Kong Encounter animatronic for Universal Studios Hollywood. *Source, Wikipedia. Bob Gurr (@bobgurrofficial) • Instagram - www.fandomproductions.com/shop - Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Purchase Dave Bossert's new award-winning book "3D Disneyland - Like You've Never Seen It Before at theoldmillpress.com. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

This week hosts Aljon Go (@aljongo) and Dave Bossert (@dave_bossert) celebrate Women's History Month with Disney Art Director, Cristy Maltese. She talks about her beginnings with Hanna-Barbera Productions and her time working with Walt Disney Animation Studios. She is known for her work on Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Little Mermaid (1989), and Pocahontas (1995). Visit Cristy's website  cristymaltese.com. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Purchase Dave Bossert's new award-winning book "3D Disneyland - Like You've Never Seen It Before at theoldmillpress.com. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

Disney visual effects animator, Ted Kierscey joins hosts Dave Bossert and Aljon Go to talk about his career with Walt Disney Animations Studios. He is best known for his work as Supervising effects animator on Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Fantasia 2000 (1999). He has also worked on Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Aladdin (1992), and the animated effects for The Little Mermaid Attraction, Disney California Adventure. Purchase Dave Bossert's new award-winning book "3D Disneyland - Like You've Never Seen It Before with photos by Ted Kierscey at theoldmillpress.com. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

Dave Bossert and Aljon Go talk about Walt Disney World Resort’s 50th Anniversary, Disney's Cruella trailer, Star Wars headlines with Mandalorian star Gina Carano, Rian Johnson's Star Wars trilogy, Tim Burton's Netflix show, and Paramount+ reviving Criminal Minds and CSI. Read Bossert Behind-the-Scenes | (cartoonresearch.com). Purchase Dave Bossert's new award-winning book "3D Disneyland - Like You've Never Seen It Before at theoldmillpress.com. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

Dave Bossert and Aljon Go chat with Disney Legend, animator Floyd Norman. Norman is an animator, writer, and comic book artist. Over the course of his career, Norman has worked for a number of animation companies, among them Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Ruby-Spears, Film Roman, and Pixar. He is known for his work on The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Mulan (1998), and Dinosaur (2000). He was also inducted as a Disney Legend in 2007.  Please check out Floyd Norman's links - Vimeo - Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (floydnormanmovie.com) - floydnorman.com - Floyd Norman | Facebook. Purchase Dave Bossert's new award-winning book "3D Disneyland - Like You've Never Seen It Before at theoldmillpress.com. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

Dave Bossert and Aljon Go chat with artist and animator, Kathy Zielinski. Zielinski is best known for her work on Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), and Disney's Aladdin (1992). Her beginnings at Disney started with working on Mickey's Christmas Carol and The Black Cauldron. After working on a series of other projects, including Ursula in The Little Mermaid, she progressed into the role of animation supervisor, working on Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Afterward, she moved to DreamWorks and began working with them on projects in the early 2000s. Zielinski has since moved to work on television series as a Character Animator with Encore on a series of DC Comics/WB shows and, currently, with Fox Television The Simpsons. She won the California Institute of Arts Student Academy Award in Animation in 1982 and was nominated for Best Individual Achievement: Animation at the 1996 Annie Awards. Zielinski has also played a part in the animation of multiple Academy award-winning and nominated productions (source Wikipedia). Visit: kathyzielinski.com - Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

Tony Anselmo, voice actor, and animator has been the official voice of Donald Duck since 1985 and joins hosts Dave Bossert and Aljon Go to discuss how he worked with Donald's original voice actor, Clarence Nash as well as his continued work with Walt Disney Animation and theme park projects. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

Hosts, Aljon Go and Dave Bossert welcome author Barbara Abercrombie to discuss her new book The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life as well as tips for aspiring writers. The duo also discusses the latest Disney and pop-culture news with more delays for upcoming films, the 15th Anniversary of Disney's High School Musical, Disney Executive bonuses, Tom Holland's Marvel Spider-Man attraction at Disneyland, and the life of talk show host Larry King. Barbara Abercrombie has published novels, children’s picture books, including the award-winning Charlie Anderson, and books of non-fiction. Her personal essays have appeared in national publications as well as in many anthologies. Her most recent books are  A Year of Writing Dangerously and Kicking In the Wall published by New World Library and chosen by Poets & Writers Magazine as two of the best books for writers. (http://www.pw.org/best-books-for-writers). Her sixteenth book, The Language of Loss, an anthology of poetry and memoir, will be published by NWL in the fall of 2020. Purchase the book - The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life | IndieBound.org - More at BarbaraAbercrombie.com - Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.

Hosts, Aljon Go and Dave Bossert welcome Disney Director and Animator Tony Bancroft. Best known for directing the movie Mulan (alongside Barry Cook), Bancroft also on The Rescuers Down Under (Animator - Frank), Beauty and the Beast (Animator - Cogsworth), Aladdin (Animator - Iago), The Lion King: (Supervising animator - Pumbaa), and more. He also has a twin brother, Tom Bancroft, who also has a Disney animation history. Check out The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast. Email us: [email protected] | [email protected]. Visit - skullrockpodcast.com. Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://youtu.be/iTVxFPhbAtk.