- Don Bluth Goes Independent A personal remembrance of when Don Bluth quit Disney, formed an independent studio and inspired the current feature animation boom. by Jerry Beck The 1970s was a decade in which TV animation plunged to its depths, with the likes of Hanna-Barbera and Filmation dominating Saturday mornings with the worst of their wares. Although Hollywood was barely interested in ...www.awn.com/mag/issue1.3/articles/beck1.3.html