- Floyd Norman was born on June 22, 1935 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is a writer, known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Mulan (1998) and Dinosaur (2000).
- In 1956, he was the first African American animator at the Disney studios.
- After he finished working on The Jungle Book (1967), he left Walt Disney Co. With friend and fellow animator Leo Sullivan, he founded Vignette Films, where they produced six animated films on black history.
- He won the 2002 Winsor McCay Award, a lifetime-achievement honor from the International Animated Film Society.
- Inducted as a Disney Legend in 2007.
- Now 85 in 2020, at the age of 80 in 2015, he was still working as a storyboard artist, and a freelance consultant for the Walt Disney Co.
- This was like joining the Marine Corps of animation. If you made it at Disney, you could make it anywhere.
- He was a very cool dude, and I liked him very much. [About Steve Jobs during his time at Pixar]
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