Atwater School of Art & Animation - Buena Vista Street: The 2nd floor Atwater Art Studio is named for Los Angeles' Atwater Village, an area frequented by Walt Disney and employees from the early Hyperion Avenue studio in Silverlake. The instructors listed are Walt's Nine Old Men - a nickname for a core group of Disney's animators, Les Clark, Eric Larson, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, Ward Kimball, Marc Davis, Milt Kahl, John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman.