Former Walt Disney Co. Vice Chairman Roy Disney is blasting the company's move to close its Florida animation studio and strongly criticized CEO Michael Eisner for the decision, according to a Local 6 News report.

On Jan 12, Disney announced that it was shuttering its Orlando, Fla.-based animation studio in a move expected to erase about 258 jobs. The company said it was shifting from hand-drawn animated films to computer-generated features and videos.

However, the move did not sit well with Roy Disney, who recently resigned from the company's board, complaining that Eisner was the cause of the company's woes.

Disney, who is the nephew of company namesake Walt, specifically named Eisner in a Disney statement unusual in its personal focus on the chairman.

"The drain of talent over the past several years from the company's feature animation department in Orlando, Burbank, Paris and Tokyo has been absolutely gut-wrenching," Roy Disney said in a released Disney statement. "People are being asked to leave because management - particularly Michael - can't figure out what to do with them."

Disney called the closure "another example of Michael Eisner's de-emphasis of creativity and total indifference to the impact his decisions have on the people who helped to make the company great."

He also called the firings associated with the closing "absolutely gut-wrenching," according to a report.

The closed Orlando studio was opened in 1989 and grew in size until it produced its first complete film, "Lilo & Stitch," in 2002.

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