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My friends frequently ask me what I do at the Disney studio. And I know they expect me to tell some fantastically charming tale about "the quaint place" where I work!

The truth is, the studio is a very business-like place. There's a reason for everything that's done there and, like any career, it takes thought and patience and hard work.

Of course, we do have a lot of fun in connection with our daily routine – some of the most wonderful "gags" in the world happen during working hours – but we manage to accomplish a lot of serious work, too.

I'm a color model supervisor at Disney's. There are four of us in the studio and it's our work to determine the color for the characters and moving properties of the pictures. Each picture is divided into sequences and scenes and a color model is needed for each. We either interpret the mood desired by the director and his artists or we originate the model by working against the painted backgrounds.
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