Chris Buck Dorado High School. Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988 to 1993. At CalArts, Buck became friends with both John Lasseter and Michael Giaimo, whom he would work with many years later on "Frozen". He began his career as an animator with Disney in 1978. Besides his work as a co-director on "Tarzan" and "Frozen", Buck's other credits at Disney also 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
Willow pattern to evoke a 19th-century atmosphere in several American western movies (as well as western television shows, and even the comedy, "The Munsters"), Blue Willow china is also featured in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Murder She Wrote," suggesting a contemporary time or setting when life was simpler. It was also seen in the movie "Sleepy Hollow". "Blue Willow" by Doris Gates (1940) is an award-winning children's novel, a realist fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression years that has been called, ""The Grapes of Wrath" for children". The titular blue willow plate, a gift from her great-grandmother,