Webb Smith - my 140th pick as a Disney Legend

Artist Webb Smith is my my 140th pick as a Disney Legend. He is credited with helping to develop the storyboard system. According to the Disney Institute blog, "Storyboards originated at Disney Studios in the 1930’s and were, according to Walt Disney, invented by Animator, Webb Smith. As the story goes, Smith would draw sequential scenes for a new cartoon and pin them to the walls of his office instead of describing the plot with words.

Walt, none too happy about the now blemished walls of his recently redecorated office, recognized the value in Smith’s design and ordered corkboards on which the sketches could be placed. Storyboarding soon became the standard for mapping out new cartoons and quickly translated into other areas of Walt’s business."

He was involved in the following Disney films:

• The Three Caballeros
• The Stork's Holiday 
• Victory Vehicles  
• How to Swim 
• Saludos Amigos
• Dumbo 
• Fantasia 
• Pinocchio
• Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 
• Don Donald 
• Three Blind Mouseketeers 
• On Ice 
• Three Little Pigs 
• Birds in the Spring 
• Mickey Cuts Up