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Where did Mickey Mouse come from?
"Walt is said to have drawn the first sketches of Mickey
Mouse on a train to Los Angeles after losing the rights to Oswald, the cartoon rabbit…… the most significant factor
that led to Mickey's super-stardom was his optimistic, cheerful, resilient character -- one very much like Walt's. It may
be true that animator Ub Iwerks was largely responsible for Mickey's final form -- reworking Walt's sketches to make the mouse
easier to animate. But as old animators have commented, according to animation historian Charles Solomon, "Ub designed Mickey's
physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."
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