Walter found his infatuation with art while high school, contributing his work to the school paper, carrying that over throughout the war with sketches, and when returning back to Kansas from France pursued a career as a newspaper artist. While pursuing that career he teamed up with his brother Roy and fellow cartoonist Ub Iwerks, who would later create Woody Woodpecker, and developed their own studio, Laugh-O-Gram. When the studio bankrupted, Walt, Roy and Ub moved to Hollywood to have another try to finding success, and found some in the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but would then find demise in him when the rights were stolen by Universal Studios as well as many artists from his team. With the turn of events, Walt took it into his own hands creating the world renowned character Mickey Mouse, and would continue with a variety of commercial successes as well as land developments in California and Florida before he was diagnosed with lung cancer and later passed in 1966. Throughout his life, he has implemented mission command as the leader of two successful studios with teams that expressed their minds in their art with disciplined initiative, and accepted prudent risk experiencing financial and legal trouble. That risk would provide for the outcome of a
Walter found his infatuation with art while high school, contributing his work to the school paper, carrying that over throughout the war with sketches, and when returning back to Kansas from France pursued a career as a newspaper artist. While pursuing that career he teamed up with his brother Roy and fellow cartoonist Ub Iwerks, who would later create Woody Woodpecker, and developed their own studio, Laugh-O-Gram. When the studio bankrupted, Walt, Roy and Ub moved to Hollywood to have another try to finding success, and found some in the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but would then find demise in him when the rights were stolen by Universal Studios as well as many artists from his team. With the turn of events, Walt took it into his own hands creating the world renowned character Mickey Mouse, and would continue with a variety of commercial successes as well as land developments in California and Florida before he was diagnosed with lung cancer and later passed in 1966. Throughout his life, he has implemented mission command as the leader of two successful studios with teams that expressed their minds in their art with disciplined initiative, and accepted prudent risk experiencing financial and legal trouble. That risk would provide for the outcome of a