These men created magic. RIP.
The animation directors were amazing and the animators on staff were incredible artists in their own right (Walt Kelly and Carl Barks both started in Disney Animation). Preston Blair started there too before moving on to working with Tex Avery at MGM.
These people made pencil drawings come to life and act.
Today, everything is done with computers. A few seem to have weight and mass, and a few even seem to project emotions, but it doesn’t do much to compete with the animated films of old. Such fluid motion and elabortate work.
At least Frank and Ollie lived to see the day that they got publicly recognized (with a documentary about them and public interest in animation art in the 1990s which took them on the road to galleries across America).