Virtual Talk | Little Golden Book Disneyland is Your Land! with Creators Nick Balian and Scott Tilley

Join us for a virtual exploration of Disneyland through the years with a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the new Little Golden Book, Disneyland is Your Land!, whose title is based on Walt Disney’s original message welcoming the world to his theme park. The book’s Illustrator Nick Balian—Senior Illustration Manager at Pixar Animation Studios and Disney Publishing artist—will be joined by his collaborator Scott Tilley, an Art Director at Disney Publishing.

Questions can be submitted during the webinar through Zoom's Q&A function. Due to anticipated demand and limited Q&A time, not all submitted questions will be answered.

All participants must sign up here by 5pm PT on Tuesday, March 17. Participants must have a Zoom account to attend the webinar. A link to the webinar and instructions for joining will be sent via email prior to the event.

Tickets for Virtual Talk | Little Golden Book Disneyland is Your Land! with Creators Nick Balian and Scott Tilley will be available as follows:

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Scott Tilley is a Disney Publishing Art Director who oversees the development of the illustrations for their Pixar-branded titles. Starting with the company in 1994, Tilley has had the pleasure of illustrating and art-directing hundreds of Disney and Pixar children’s books over the last three decades. Many of those titles are from the Penguin Random House Little Golden Book imprint, and he is happy to have illustrated (and sometimes co-illustrated) several of those, including Finding Nemo, UP, Cars, Wall-E, and Ratatouille. The series of Little Golden Books based on the Disney theme parks has been particularly fun for him to work on, and he has collaborated with Imagineer Jason Grandt and his colleague Nick Balian to create The Orange Bird and FIGMENT titles. With Grandt residing in Orlando, Balian working from Emeryville, and Tilley in Tokyo, these park-based titles are truly a global effort and the very definition of “labors of love.” Their aim has been to bring the park experience and lasting memories right into the hands of readers everywhere with these Little Golden Books.

Nick Balian is a Disney Publishing artist and Senior Illustration Manager at Pixar Animation Studios, where he helps create children’s books based on Pixar’s films. He had the pleasure of illustrating the Little Golden Book for Pixar’s Onward (2020) and co-illustrating the Little Golden Book for Pixar’s Soul (2020). In addition to his work with Pixar titles, Balian also helps manage and create titles for the Disney Parks, especially their growing collection of Little Golden Books.

Balian wrote and illustrated Little Man of Disneyland: A Change of Luck (the sequel to the 1955 Little Golden Book classic, Little Man of Disneyland), and co-illustrated FIGMENT and the recently released Disneyland Is Your Land! Little Golden Book. As a beloved Disney Parks fan, these projects have been a dream come true for Balian to work and collaborate on.

When he’s away from the drawing board, Balian loves to watch and study films, write short stories, speak in puns, and spend time with friends and family, especially his nieces, who he loves to pieces!

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