Update!

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Update and New Website

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Wow. It's been more than a year since my last update here. Time flies :)

Here's a quick update. I left Oktobor Animation back in October last year after 2 and half wonderful years in New Zealand. Best place I've ever worked!.

I went back to Norway to study music composition and orchestration and I'm currently working freelance (and studying) as a composer and animator. Please send me an email at info@martinkirkhaug.com if you need a score for your projects :)

I also got a new website up and running: www.martinkirkhaug.com. Head over there to check out my music and some recent animation.

Thanks for all the support in this blog over the years. The journey continues at my new website. All future updates will happen there!

all the best,
Martin

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Glen Keane is Leaving Disney

From Cartoon Brew:
Glen Keane has left Disney’s Feature Animation studio. He worked at Disney for approximately 37 years. Disney artists received an email late-Friday afternoon LA time with the text: “Glen Keane has decided that the time has come to take the next step in his personal exploration of the art of animation.” - Read More Here

From The Animation Guild:
Almost everybody in the cartoon industry moves from one studio to another studio in the course of their career. For all kinds of reasons. Glen, last I heard, was in the old animation building on the main lot developing projects. Now he has tendered his resignation. Maybe he was having "creative differences" with the powers that be, maybe it was something else. - Read More Here

From The Hollywood Reporter:
Animator Glen Keane, a 38-year veteran of the Walt Disney Animation Studios who worked on such classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, announced Friday that he is leaving the company. In a letter sent to his co-workers, he said that while the studio has been his “artistic home,” he had decided after “long and thoughtful consideration” that there are “endless new territories to explore” and so he is moving on. - Read More Here

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