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Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series. Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.
What If Back To Never Land was made 20 years later?Back to Never Land was a 1989 live-action/animated hybrid film that was originally shown inside the former attraction, Magic of Disney Animation at Disney's Hollywood Studios. It was also shown inside the Disney Animation Building at Disney California Adventure. Directed by Jerry Rees and produced by Bob Rogers, the attraction ran from May 1, 1989, to September 30, 2003. Synopsis:Hosted by both the late Robin Williams and Walter Cronkite, the film takes the audience through the animation process in the form of an adventure to Neverland, where Robin takes on the role of one of the Lost Boys and has a bad run in with Captain Hook. Fortunately, he meets Tinker Bell before being sent to walk the plank and they plan to use Tick-Tock the Crocodile against Hook by hitting him with some Pixie Dust. However, after defeating Hook and being brought back into the real world, he immediately goes back into the animated world when Peter Pan invites him to join him for another adventure.
