Bambi, I primarily did color stuff. Although, naturally, there was other little story sections but the important thing was, the director who was working on Bambi, he was the head of the Color Unit and he saw my color stuff, what I did for the other people on… you know? And he said, 'Once you finished that, then come over'. But what happened was, and I'm with a lot of people and somebody says, 'Hey Jules, they put you on Bambi'. And I said, 'What do you mean, Bambi?' 'Bambi is a deer'. I said, 'Oh shit, I don't want to work on an animal'. I said, 'It's not my bag, I don't understand that world. Next thing you know, there's somebody who wants to see me. So some bastard, you know, went to that somebody and said that I'm very unhappy because I don't want to work on animals. See how they have these guys, would run to somebody to tell them that you're not a nice person, you know? Whatever that means. Anyway, so I went to see this guy and he said, 'We would like to try you on a sequence in Bambi because it probably has more of what you've done before'. So I said, 'Okay, I buy'. So I worked on that one sequence on Bambi where Bambi meets the girl for the first time, you know? And that was nothing but movement, that's why they put me on, because there was just a lot of movement. Bambi chasing her, she's chasing him and so that was something that they felt I could handle. And then, what really sold me on this whole deal, was the music. I heard a score that was written for this sequence, where Bambi meets Faline and all of a sudden, they come chasing, which was a pure abstraction, you know? There's a lot of movement. So that was a big change and so that was when I came in on Bambi. But when I came in on Bambi, I began to do some color sketches, you know, because the sketches they had on Bambi was too real, was too real. In that the deer, or color of a deer is a kind of, whatever that is. And I said, 'This doesn't have to be just that'. So I made them yellow, I made them purple, I made them pink and they were running and stuff in all this color. It worked. It gave Bambi that texture that they didn't have because everybody was staying too close to the real stuff. And so that's when Bambi came and I was on it like that. But it was a good experience, you know?
