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Don Bluth: The man who took on Disney

In 1979, on his 42nd birthday, Don Bluth did what very few people in the world of animation do: he quit Disney. Bluth had enjoyed a rapid rise at Disney, working at first as an “in-betweener” artist adding frames to other animators’ drawings on ‘Sleeping Beauty’, then graduating to Director of Animation on movies like live-action/animation hybrid ‘Pete’s Dragon’ and ‘The Rescuers’. Bluth lived and breathed animation, working impossible hours at Disney while crafting away on his own secret proj