Tad Stones (born c.1952 in Burbank, California) is an American animator, animation writer, producer and director best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series Darkwing Duck and producing Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. His latest project is the animated film Hellboy - Sword of Storms, which premiered in October 2006 on Cartoon Network's Toonami. Look up Circa on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Latin word circa, literally meaning about, is often used to describe various dates (often birth and death dates) that are uncertain. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Founded May 1, 1887 Incorporated July 8, 1911 General Information County Los Angeles County, California Latitude Longitude 34°1049 N 118°1942 W Area  - Total  - Water 45 km² (17. ... An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... Animation is the filming a sequence of drawings or positions of models to create an illusion of movement. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... This article is about the animated series. ... Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers was an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. ... Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears was an American animated television series that aired in the United States and other countries in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. ... Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a name of a Disney animated science fiction adventure show. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Hellboy: Sword of Storms is the first of two animated films (the second being Hellboy - Blood and Iron), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. ... Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. ... Toonami (a portmanteau of cartoon and the Japanese word tsunami suggesting a tidal wave of animated cartoons) is a registered trademark of Cartoon Network, used initially for action-oriented programming blocks on Cartoon Network television channels worldwide, mostly shows American and Japanese cartoons, originating in the United States in 1997. ...

Career biography

Born in Burbank, California, Stones started with Disney training under animation veteran Eric Larson.^[1] He entered the Feature Animation training program three days after his college graduation in 1974.^[1][2] After animating a scene in The Rescuers, Stones moved into the story department on The Fox and the Hound.^[1] A brief stint at Walt Disney Imagineering followed, where he worked on Epcot's Transportation pavilion and the Imagination pavilion.^[1] Founded May 1, 1887 Incorporated July 8, 1911 General Information County Los Angeles County, California Latitude Longitude 34°1049 N 118°1942 W Area  - Total  - Water 45 km² (17. ... Eric Larson (September 3, 1905-October 25, 1988) was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios in the early 20th century and was one of the Disneys Nine Old Men. ... The Rescuers is the twenty-third film in the Disney animated features canon. ... The Fox and the Hound is the twenty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... Walt Disney Imagineering, was formed by entertainment mogul Walt Disney on December 16, 1952 as WED Enterprises (WED: Walter Elias Disney) to develop plans for a theme park and to manage Disneys personal assets. ... Epcot is the second theme park built at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. ...

Stones worked at Walt Disney Television Animation since its formation in 1984. He was one of the creative forces behind many of the Disney Afternoon shows of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was one of the producers of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears (third season only). In 1990, Stones was asked to develop an original concept inspired by two episodes of Ducktales; he illustrated what would eventually become known as Darkwing Duck. Stones wrote and produced the pilot film for the show, Darkly Dawns the Duck, which premiered in April 1991. After the success of the pilot, Stones served as writer and producer of the show until the end of its run in late 1992. According to an interview, the character of Gosalyn Mallard was partly based on what he believed his then two-year-old daughter would be like when she grew older. Walt Disney Television Animation is a division of The Walt Disney Company formed in 1984 to produce animated programs specifically for television. ... The Disney Afternoon was a created-for-syndication two-hour television series which aired from September 10, 1990 until at least 1998. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the late 1980s and shortly after the year 2000. ... Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers was an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. ... Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears was an American animated television series that aired in the United States and other countries in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. ... DuckTales is an American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company starring characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe as largely created by Carl Barks. ... This article is about the animated series. ... Darkly Dawns the Duck is an animated Disney television special that aired in two parts in 1991, and was the pilot film for the television series Darkwing Duck. ... Gosalyn Mallard is a fictional character created by Disney as the adopted daughter of Darkwing Duck. ...

After Darkwing Duck, Stones served as director in Aladdin, a television series based on the original film. In 1994, he co-wrote, produced and directed The Return of Jafar, a direct-to-video sequel to the 1992 film Aladdin. He also directed and produced a second sequel to Aladdin in 1996, Aladdin and the King of Thieves. The film marked the end of the Aladdin films and the Aladdin animated series. Aladdin is an animated television series made by Walt Disney Television which aired from 1994 to 1995, based on the original 1992 feature. ... The Return of Jafar (later retitled Aladdin: The Return of Jafar) is a direct-to-video sequel to the 1992 film Aladdin, produced by The Walt Disney Company in 1994. ... A film that is released direct-to-video (also straight-to-video) is one which has been released to the public on home video formats first rather than first being released in movie theaters. ... A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ... For the Golden Films film, see Aladdin (Golden Films film) Aladdin is the thirty-first animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, made and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released on November 25, 1992 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ... Aladdin and the King of Thieves is a direct-to-video animated film made by Disney, first released in Finland in 1995 and in the US and other countries in 1996. ...

In 1998, Stones served as executive producer of Hercules: The Animated Series. Two years later, he directed the direct-to-video film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins. The film served as pilot episode to the 2000 television series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, which Stones also produced. In 2003, he directed Atlantis: Milo's Return, the direct-to-video sequel to the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a name of a Disney animated science fiction adventure show. ... Milo trying to convince scholars of Atlantis existence. ...

Stones worked at Disney for almost 30 years before leaving the company in 2003. In 2004, he started working at Universal Cartoon Studios, where he produced a direct-to-video feature about Brer Rabbit. Stones directed, produced and co-wrote with Mike Mignola Hellboy - Sword of Storms, the first of two direct-to-video animated films based on Mignola's popular comic book series Hellboy. Stones, a long time comic book reader, had worked previously with Mignola on developing Atlantis: The Lost Empire into an animated series.^[3] Hellboy - Sword of Storms made its television debut in the United States on October 28, 2006 on Cartoon Network. Hellboy - Blood and Iron, the second film in the Hellboy animated series, is scheduled to be screened on television in 2007. Universal Animation Studios (formerly known as Universal Cartoon Studios), is an animation production arm of Americas largest movie studio and theme park Universal Studios. ... Brer Rabbit is the hero of the Uncle Remus stories derived from African-American folktales of the US South. ... Mike Mignola. ... Hellboy: Sword of Storms is the first of two animated films (the second being Hellboy - Blood and Iron), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... It has been suggested that Right_Hand_of_Doom be merged into this article or section. ... Hellboy: Sword of Storms is the first of two animated films (the second being Hellboy - Blood and Iron), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. ... Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. ... Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second of two animated films (the first being Hellboy - Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. ...

References

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External links

• Tad Stones at the Internet Movie Database