When Dean Kelly was a kid growing up in Chelmsford, he was fascinated with the Disney movie Pinocchio, to the point that he wore out his family’s VHS tape of it. He’d not only watch the movie, but also play, rewind, and pause it, study the characters, and try to draw them himself.
“I’m just seduced by the art,” he says.
He was also intrigued by Disney’s indelible, whose big personality felt as familiar to him as the people he knew in Chelmsford, like the coaches from his hockey or little league teams.
