John Hench
John Hench
John Henchwas an employee of The Walt Disney Company for more than 65 years, during which saw the creation of nearly every Disney animated feature and theme park...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth29 June 1908
CountryUnited States of America
optimistic optimism way
But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
people cynical intuition
Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.
cities lasts parks
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.
people attention stories
I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
cartoon chosen screens
We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.
paris skeletons people
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!
color choices working-together
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.
sea league special
I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"
artist skeletons pirate
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!
artist ideas pirate
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.
artist ideas get-better
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.
eye 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.
artist bird tape
This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
fighting artist color
The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'