Notes from Floyd Norman’s 2013 book “Animated Life: A Lifetime of Tips, Tricks and Stories from a Disney Legend.” Floyd Norman, the first African American to animate for Disney Studios, offers insight in drawing characters “alive” with Disney’s inimitable illusion of life. A how-to memoir of a fifty year corporate ladder climb from magic factory apprentice on Sleeping Beauty in 1956; to in-betweener for tour de forces Ward Kimball and Milt Kahl; to animator assistant; to coveted animator; to story lead; to art director and finally to Disney Legend in 2006. Working in person with the maestro himself shortly before Walt’s death in 1966 while producing Jungle Book, to educating a new generation of animators on Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. — Norman has seen and done it all. He writes about it with grace, wit and wisdom.