Norman Ferguson

William Norman Ferguson was an American animator at the Disney Studios. He was known by the nickname "Fergy" by his colleagues.
Rather than focus on inner emotions, Ferguson was known for using broader movements to suggest acting and personality. This technique of animation led to his creation of the dog in the cartoon Chain Gang, the ancestor of Pluto. Ferguson further influenced the character in his animation of a sequence Playful Pluto - in which Pluto accidentally sits on a sheet of flypaper and tries unsuccessfully to pull it off, resulting in more problems - considered by many to be the first sequence in which a character was thinking onscreen and a milestone in personality animation. He was very fond of vaudeville acts and found many opportunities to use broad gestures in his animation assignments, including the dramatic Witch and the theatrical Honest John.
He also had a small role as himself in Disney's The Reluctant Dragon and accompanied Walt Disney and several other employees to South America on a goodwill tour which inspired Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.
In 1953, Ferguson, who was starting to suffer from diabetes, left Disney Studios. His health and career fell into decline further afterwards and after aa brief, unsuccessful stint with Shamus Culhane Productions, Ferguson died in Los Angeles, California in 1957.
==Character animation==
Film 	Character
The Three Little Pigs 	Big Bad Wolf
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	WitchRaven
Pinocchio 	
Honest JohnGideonThe Coachman
Fantasia 	
Hyacinth HippoMadame UpanovaElephanchine
Cinderella 	
LuciferThe KingThe Grand DukeBruno
Alice in Wonderland 	
The Walrus and the Carpenter
==Gallery==
===Character Gallery===
Pete Disney Mickey Mouse official pose .jpg|Pete
DSNY-SM-13.jpg|Pluto
Big Bad Wolf-The Three Little Pigs.jpg|Big Bad Wolf
Hag.png|Witch (Evil Queen's disguised form)
Catfox.png|Honest John and Gideon
Pinocchio-disneyscreencaps_com-5906.jpg|The Coachman
Fantasia_upanova.png|Madame Upanova
Hippo.png|Hyacinth Hippo
Luciferdisney.jpeg|Lucifer
Brunopic.png|Bruno
King2.png|The King
Duke2.png|The Grand Duke
Profile_-_The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter.jpg|The Walrus and the Carpenter
===Miscellaneous===
Vlcsnap-2015-07-18-10h54m07s787.png|Norman Ferguson with Robert Benchley in The Reluctant Dragon
Disney animators at work.jpg|From left: Dick Lundy, Ferguson, Jack King, Burt Gillett, Merle Gilson, and Ben Sharpsteen
Disney staff 1930 (1).jpg|Left to Right: King, Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Carl Stalling, GillettKneeling, from left, Sharpsteen, Lundy, Gilson, and Ferguson
Disney staff in January 1930 (2).jpg|Standing, from left: Les Clark, King, Sharpsteen, Jack Cutting, Gillett, Iwerks, Win Smith, Wilfred Jackson, William Cottrell, Floyd GottfredsonKneeling, from left, Lundy, Charles Byrne, Carlos Manriquez, Norman Ferguson, Merle Gilson, Chuck Couch, Carl Stalling, Johnny Cannon, W. Disney.
Disney staff 1931 (1).jpg|Standing from left: Edmond Seward, Frank Churchill, Otto Englander, Sharpsteen, Bert Lewis, Gilles "Frenchy" de Tremaudan, Clark, Rudy Zamora, Jackson, King, Tom Palmer, Cutting (behind Palmer), Cannon, Ferguson, Webb SmithSeated, from left: David Hand, Ted Sears, Lundy, Gillett, W. Disney
Disney staff 1931 (2).jpg|1931; Standing from left: Smith, Seward, Englander, Zamora, Hand, Palmer, Cutting, W. Disney, Churchill, Cannon, SharpsteenSeated from left: King, Lundy, Sears, Ferguson, de Tremaudan, Jackson, Clark, Gillett, Lewis
El grupo at the airfield.jpg|Left to Right; Hazel Sewell, Cottrell, Sears, Lillian Disney, W. Disney, Ferguson, and Frank Thomas.
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