Dave Avanzino is a fine artist and scenic designer living in the Southern California area. For more than a two decades, Dave has created numerous one-of-a-kind, limited and open edition pieces for Disneyland®, Walt Disney World® and the Disney Cruise Line. He typically works in a 3-D style and creates mixed-media paper sculptures in shadowbox frames. Recently Dave has been converting some of his artwork into 2-D formats that can be reproduced as Canvas Giclées and Matted Deluxe Prints while working to keep some of the character and depth of his dimensional works.

His unique, dimensional style presents familiar characters, words and phrases in a fresh new way. Dave uses a variety of materials including paper, wood, metal, wire, etc., to create his artwork. He enjoys combining different textures, colors and materials and depth in order to make his designs literally pop off the page. One of the elements Dave enjoys including in his artwork, in addition to the characters, is words. The great library of classic Disney films and attractions has given him an endless source of rich, wonderful words and phrases he can create his artwork around. Whether it's a quote by the Evil Queen from Snow White or the name of a Disney® theme park, Dave can come up with a way to represent it in his distinctive dimensional style.

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Over the past few years Dave has been designing a series of unique Tiki-themed signs and artwork. The first ones were whimsical Tiki Bar Signs featuring unique names and signature drinks. These were produced as limited edition handmade paper sculptures and reproduced as wrapped canvases, wood signs and matted prints. In addition he has designed and created a series of one-of-a-kind paper sculpture Tikis. Dave has also recently introduced a line of artwork he calls "Tiki Bots" which are a mashup of Tiki Culture and Mid-Century Robots.

Chris Crump started his career in 1973, working with his father, Rolly, as an apprentice carpenter for Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus World. In the late 1980s, Chris started his career at Walt Disney Imagineering, where he worked as a Production Designer and Executive until his retirement in 2016.During his time as an Imagineer, Chris worked on The Little Mermaid – Ariel’s Undersea Adventure at Disney California Adventure, and he was also part of the team which received the 2002 Thea Award for Best New Theme Park (Tokyo DisneySea) from the Themed Entertainment Association.

Terri Hardin is a world-renowned master sculptor, exceptional concept artist, and elite American puppeteer. As a Disney Imagineer, she’s widely celebrated for her contributions to both the Jim Henson Company and the Walt Disney Company.

** Our guest worked for The Jim Henson Company for over 30 years, performing in Dinosaurs, The Flintstones, The Indian in the Cupboard and The Country Bears.**Our accomplished guest was hired by Disney Studios where she helped design the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and The Dragon's Lair attractions at Disneyland Paris.**She has personal connections and is part of respected social circles with names Disney Legends John Hench, Xtencio, Bob Gurr, Rolly Crump, Harriet Burns, Alice and Marc Davis, and Roy Disney Jr just to name a few. **Additionally her direct reports while working as an Imagineer were Disney Legends Marty Sklar and Tony Baxter.**At Walt Disney Imagineering her imprint can been seen on 12 key attractions including Star Tours, Splash Mountain, Muppet*Vision 3D, Big Thunder Mountain, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, and Journey Into Imagination to name a few.** Our guest is credited with 41 Filmography acknowledgements including titles like The Muppet Movie, Men in Black, King Kong and Bruno.**Her talents in the blockbuster Ghostbusters were impactful as played both of the demon dogs at the "Temple of Zuul" and served as a puppeteer for both the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man and the ghost librarian seen at the opening of the film.

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Original YouTube air date April 16, 2024.

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