I’ve been watching the trailer for Waking Sleeping Beauty over and over again. It might come as a surprise that my life’s ambition used to be to work 2D animation at Disney. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was Fantasia. I visited Disney World on most major holidays growing up and I collected every scrap of paper I could scribble on to make cartoon. Who Framed Roger Rabbit became my obsession, fueling an interest in rotoscoping and live-action / animated effects. When I was about six I used to stay up until the early morning watching DTV on cable. Later, I would watch the Disney Afternoon cartoon block, carefully picking apart which episodes came from which production studios. My friends and I would storyboard original episodes as best we could. When Aladdin was released, so was a piece of software called Disney Animation Studio, which I spent months working with. I later went  to art school, still hoping to one day work in animated features. My instructors would frequently remind me that Ash Brannon (director of Toy Story 2 and Surf’s Up) graduated my school just a few years before I did. It didn’t help my morale much as 2D started to fall into the waste basket of popular entertainment. Some day I hope I can make an animated project, but until then this documentary helps me relive the days when animation was my true passion.