A closer look
Imagine inventing avant-garde music visualization, only for a cartoon mouse to slap some glitter on it and call it a day. That's what happened to Oskar Fischinger when Walt Disney hired him for Fantasia. Fischinger spent months meticulously crafting pure, mind-bending geometric animations to accompany Bach. Disney's animators looked at his visionary genius, panicked, and turned his abstract shapes into recognizable, safe little clouds and waves. Fischinger quit in disgust without a credit, proving that Hollywood has always been allergic to unadulterated creativity.
