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`Tarzan' hero a part of animator's family tree: Children inspire artist's creation.(Arts)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19990619
Author:Arnold, Gary

"Sometimes the solutions are so in front of your face that you just don't see them," animator Glen Keane says.

Mr. Keane was brainstorming about ways to animate the title character of Walt Disney Co.'s new animated feature "Tarzan" when he found inspiration in some predictable places: Edgar Rice Burroughs' original novel of 1912, "Tarzan of the Apes," and a drawing text, "Dynamic Anatomy, written by Burne Hogarth, the second illustrator of the Tarzan comic strip.

The unexpected source of inspiration was Max Keane, the animator's teen-age son, who had acquired a passion ...

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