![Director John Musker, at the Animayo International Summit in Gran Canaria, Spain.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/X7NHDG7J5JAKTHLGO73X3JUWQQ.jpg?auth=f3f212a5a84ba67a0f40dcb1f95b1154249aa50a1a04e807de5c051d7f13bb88&width=414&height=233&focal=1830%2C430)
The director who shook up Disney and Hollywood animation with a mermaid, a genie from a lamp and a Polynesian princess
John Musker, who headed up ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Moana’, is debuting a short film after announcing his retirement from a 40-year career. ‘At Disney in the 1990s, there was an emperor, but there weren’t 10 emperors’