Other projects to which Van Osten has contributed were the logo concepts for Mickey Mouse’s 50th and 60th birthdays, The Walt Disney Studios, and the Disneyland Hotel clock tower “Mickey” at Disneyland Paris. Not only was he an excellent artist, he was also well informed when it came to the Disney characters and had a depth of knowledge usually attributed to Disney veterans.” “Yet, in an odd way he had already been here for years. “Carson Van Osten didn’t begin his Disney career until the ’70s,” says animator, comic book artist, and Disney Legend Floyd Norman. In that role, he provided art and editorial supervision for key international publishing projects. In 1994 he became vice president of Creative Services for the European regional office of Disney Consumer Products in Paris, and, starting in 1997, he was vice president of International Creative Development for the Disney Publishing Group. In 1988 Van Osten took on the role of vice president in Creative Resources for Disney Consumer Products, providing art supervision and guidelines for art production, as well as helping to establish some of the first licensing style guides for the group.
He also oversaw motion picture tie-in advertising, Disney publications, and the Disney Music Company. In 1980, Van Osten became a manager in Creative Services for Disney Consumer Products, providing art supervision and concepts for Disney West Coast Licensing. That’s how some sketches wound up in the book that he and Ollie wrote, Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life.” “Frank Thomas saw it and used it for an animation class he was teaching at the Screen Cartoonists Guild. “I wrote and drew those sketches around 1975, and I’m so tickled to know that people still find them helpful today,” Van Osten once said. It is still in use today, all around the world. One of his best-known works is the Disney Comic Strip Artist’s Kit, a seven-page primer on staging, perspective, and other design fundamentals inherent in comic panel art. “And the Studio needed them more-Tony Strobl and Al Hubbard drew the ducks.” “I did like to draw Mickey and Goofy stories from the start,” Van Osten once said. He arrived at Walt Disney Productions in 1970, beginning as an illustrator of Mickey Mouse comic books. Disney Legend Carson Van Osten-who began his Disney career as an illustrator and who would, over the next 45 years, hold a variety of creative positions at Disney Consumer Products and the Disney Publishing Group-passed away on December 22.
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