When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland. John Hench More Quotes by John Hench More Quotes From John Hench There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us. John Hench jewelry atmosphere artist I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. John Hench people art school We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't. John Hench color cities feelings For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first. John Hench florida artist ideas Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert. John Hench dining people ideas Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really. John Hench walt affection department We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there. John Hench chosen screens cartoon Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something! John Hench skeletons paris people It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors, balcony colors, etc.. And all of this has to work together, in harmony. John Hench color choices working-together I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea" John Hench league special sea What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here! John Hench skeletons pirate artist We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas. John Hench get-better artist ideas Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon. John Hench eye artist ideas Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming. John Hench pirate artist ideas I can tell you this, my father would not be happy with any of this at all. John Hench top-news It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea. John Hench project street will never Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar. John Hench images park everything communication
