If you’re a fan ofDisneyanimation, chances are you love somethingHoward Ashmancreated.
It’s a treasure trove for Disney fans, packed with behind-the-scenes footage from iconic movies.
ButHowardalso offers unprecedented insight into Ashman’s personal journey and creative process.
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Here are 12 things we learned from watching.
One of his biggest and favorite projects was editing theMickey Mouse Clubscrapbook.
He even got to travel to Los Angeles as part of the job.
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The biopic never came to fruition, and Ashman went to work with the animation department instead.
What if, he suggested, King Triton’s underling and Ariel’s guardian Sebastian the crab was Jamaican?
Now we can’t imagine hearing “Under the Sea” any other way.
That’s extremely high praise.
At the time, his friends and collaborators thought he was speaking on a much more long-term basis.
Menken brought a keyboard to Ashman’s hospital room, and they wrote “Prince Ali” there.
