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Eric Larson
Eric Cleon Larson (September 3, 1905 – October 25, 1988) was an American animator for the Walt Disney Studios starting in 1933, and was one of the "Disney's Nine Old Men". Biography Born in Cleveland, Utah, Larson was the son of Danish immigrants Peter, a clothing salesman, and Nora.1920 United States Federal Census He worked on such films as ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Pinocchio'', ''Fantasia'', ''Bambi'', ''The Three Caballeros'', ''Make Mine Music'', ''Melody Time'', ''Cinderella'', ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''Peter Pan'', ''Lady and the Tramp'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'', ''The Sword in the Stone'', ''The Jungle Book'', and ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh''. Throughout the years, Larson has animated characters on classics like ''The Aristocats'' and ''Robin Hood'' and also provided the titles on ''The Rescuers'' (along with Mel Shaw and Burny Mattinson). In the 1980s his work was minor, but he served as animation consu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland, Utah
Cleveland is a town in Emery County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 464, down from 508 at the 2000 census. Geography Cleveland is located in northwestern Emery County in a swale of land between the mountains and the desert. It is east of Huntington, south of Price, and northeast of Castle Dale, the Emery County seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, Cleveland has a total area of , all land. History Cleveland was first settled in 1884 by Samuel Nelson Alger and Henry Sr. These two men took up homesteading, and soon afterward, 25 families joined them. Firm roots began to take hold, and gradually with hard work and persistence, Cleveland began to grow. These families were typically pioneers. Cleveland was named after Grover Cleveland, President of the United States in the 1880s. The "old timers" claim that farms within the boundaries of Cleveland require less water than other farms in Emery County and have the most productive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Goldman
Gary Wayne Goldman (born November 17, 1944) is an American film producer, director, animator, writer and voice actor. He is known for working on films with Don Bluth such as ''All Dogs Go to Heaven'' for his directorial debut, ''Anastasia'', ''An American Tail'', and ''The Land Before Time''. He was an animator at Disney before working at Sullivan Bluth Studios with Bluth. Early life Goldman was born in Oakland, California and raised in Watsonville, California. As a youth, Goldman was active in sports, an infielder in baseball and quarterback in high school football, he studied piano and enjoyed model-making and drawing. Before devoting himself entirely to the arts, he served as an electronics technician in the United States Air Force from 1962 to 1967, assigned duties in Japan and Germany. He received his Associate of Arts Degree in 1969 from Cabrillo College, and he graduated in December 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Life Drawing and Art History from the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Rees
Jerry W. Rees (born November 15, 1956) is an American film director and animator, best known for the Emmy-nominated animated film ''The Brave Little Toaster'' (1987) and creating many of the visual effects for the cult classic ''Tron'' (1982). Early life Rees was mentored as an animator from the age of 16 at Disney Studios, by one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, and was trained and taught at California Institute of the Arts, along with classmates John Lasseter, Brad Bird, John Musker, Tim Burton and Doug Lefler. Career In 1978, Rees worked as an animator for the Christmas children's film ''The Small One''. He also worked on the Disney film ''The Fox and the Hound'' (1981), and the following year served as one of the visual effects supervisors for the cutting-edge science fiction film ''Tron''. In 1987, Rees and science fiction writer Thomas M. Disch collaborated on adapting Disch's short story ''The Brave Little Toaster'' into an animated film. The resulting film was nominated fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Ranft
Joseph Henry Ranft (March 13, 1960 – August 16, 2005) was an American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor. He worked for Pixar Animation Studios and Disney at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation. His younger brother Jerome Ranft is a sculptor who also worked on several Pixar films. Ranft's first film was ''The Brave Little Toaster'' in 1987. He received an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination as one of the writers of ''Toy Story'' (1995), and was also the co-director on ''Cars'' (2006), his final work before his death. Early life Joseph Henry Ranft was born in Pasadena, California, on March 13, 1960, and raised in Whittier. His parents were James and Melissa Ranft. As a child, Ranft developed a love for magic, storytelling, film and comedy. At age 15, he became a member of the Magic Castle Junior Group. After graduating from Monte Vista High School, Whittier, in 1978, Ranft began studying in the character a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pomeroy
John Foster Pomeroy (born March 26, 1951) is an American animator who has worked for several major studios, including Walt Disney Animation Studios and Sullivan Bluth Studios. He has also worked as producer, and screenwriter on several animated feature films. Career John Pomeroy started work at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1973 as a background artist, and became a full animator in 1974 to work on ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too''. While working at Disney, he met fellow animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, and began working with them on an independent short film project, ''Banjo the Woodpile Cat''. In 1979 he, Bluth, Goldman and several other Disney animators left the studio to form the independent studio Don Bluth Productions (later to become Bluth Group), which produced the film ''The Secret of NIMH'' and the animation for laserdisc video games ''Dragon's Lair'' and ''Space Ace''. The independent studio encountered financial difficulties and declared bankruptcy in 1984, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey J
Jeffrey may refer to: * Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Jeffrey'' (1995 film), a 1995 film by Paul Rudnick, based on Rudnick's play of the same name * ''Jeffrey'' (2016 film), a 2016 Dominican Republic documentary film *Jeffrey's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada *Jeffrey City, Wyoming, United States *Jeffrey Street, Sydney, Australia * Jeffrey's sketch, a sketch on American TV show ''Saturday Night Live'' *'' Nurse Jeffrey'', a spin-off miniseries from the American medical drama series ''House, MD'' *Jeffreys Bay, Western Cape, South Africa People with the surname * Alexander Jeffrey (1806–1874), Scottish solicitor and historian * Charles Jeffrey (footballer) (died 1915), Scottish footballer * E. C. Jeffrey (1866–1952), Canadian-American botanist *Grant Jeffrey (1948–2012), Canadian writer *Hester C. Jeffrey (1842–1934), American activist, suffragist and community organizer *Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002), American philosopher, logician, and pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin Shaw
Mel Shaw (born Melvin Schwartzman; December 19, 1914 – November 22, 2012) was an American animator, design artist, writer, and artist. Shaw was involved in the animation, story design, and visual development of numerous Disney animated films, beginning with ''Bambi'', which was released in 1942. His other animated film credits, usually involving animation design or the story, included ''The Rescuers'' in 1977, ''The Fox and the Hound'' in 1981, '' The Black Cauldron'' in 1985, ''The Great Mouse Detective'' in 1986, ''Beauty and the Beast'' in 1991, and ''The Lion King'' in 1994. He was named a Disney Legend in 2004 for his contributions to the Walt Disney Company. Early life Shaw was born on December 19, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was an opera singer and his father was a lawyer. He was the second oldest of four brothers born to his parents. Career Shaw began his career in entertainment industry as a silent film title card creator at Pacific Title and Art, a compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rich (director)
Richard James Rich is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. Rich is founder and owner of Crest Animation Productions. Rich started his career in the mailroom of the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios in 1972 and would give piano lessons during lunch breaks. He was chosen by John Lounsbery to be an assistant director for ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'' based on his musical expertise. He made his directorial debut on ''The Fox and the Hound''. After leaving Disney in 1986, Rich established Crest Animation Productions, Rich Animation Studios, later renamed RichCrest. He directed ''The Swan Princess'' in 1994 which led up to nine sequels since 2012 about fourteen years later since its The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure, second sequel. Besides feature films, Rich has produced direct-to-video series such as ''Animated Stories from the New Testament'', ''Animated Stories from the Bible'', ''Animated Stories from the Book of Morm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Nibbelink
Phil Nibbelink (born June 3, 1955) is an American animator and film director as well as comic book writer and illustrator known for his work on films as the Academy Award-winning ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' and the 1991 cult animated sequel '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West''. Career Nibbelink worked for ten years at Disney and was a directing animator on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. Then he spent ten years working under Steven Spielberg as an animation director, working on films such as '' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'' (which he co-directed with Simon Wells) and ''Casper'' as animation director. He also directed an animated adaptation of the children's book '' We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'' for Amblimation. He was originally scheduled to co-direct ''Balto'' with Wells, but production on ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'' was incomplete, so Wells advised Nibbelink to continue working on ''We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story'', while he set to work on ''Balto''. Afterward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Musker
John Edward Musker (born November 8, 1953) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director Ron Clements and is best known for writing and directing the Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney films ''The Great Mouse Detective'' (1986), ''The Little Mermaid (1989 film), The Little Mermaid'' (1989), ''Aladdin (1992 Disney film), Aladdin'' (1992), ''Hercules (1997 film), Hercules'' (1997), ''Treasure Planet'' (2002), ''The Princess and the Frog'' (2009), and ''Moana (2016 film), Moana'' (2016). Life and career Musker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second oldest of eight children in an Irish Catholic family. His father, Robert J. Musker, who worked for over 40 years at Illinois Bell, Illinois Bell Telephone, died in 2008 at the age of 84, and his mother, Joan T. Musker (née Lally), died in 2011 at the age of 81. He attended Loyola Academy in Illinois and then graduated from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter (; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Lasseter began his career as an animator with The Walt Disney Company. After being fired from Disney for promoting computer animation, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on then-groundbreaking use of CGI animation. The Graphics Group of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and became Pixar in 1986. Lasseter oversaw all of Pixar's films and associated projects as executive producer. In addition, he directed ''Toy Story'' (1995), ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''Cars'' (2006), and '' Cars 2'' (2011). From 2006 to 2018, Lasseter also oversaw all of Walt Disney Animation St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Kroyer
William Kroyer is an American director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles, and theatrical films. He and Jerry Rees were the main animators for the CGI sequences in ''Tron''. He is currently the head of the Digital Arts department at Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. Career Kroyer began his animation career in 1975 by working in a small commercial studio. In 1977, he finally ended up at Disney Studios as animator on ''The Fox and the Hound'' but left Disney later because he did not want to work on '' The Black Cauldron''. It was then he met future ''Tron'' director Steven Lisberger, who was working on ''Animalympics''. After ''Animalympics'' was completed, Lisberger developed ''Tron'' and sold it to Disney. After ''Tron'' was finished, Kroyer decided to stay with computer animation instead of traditional animation and worked at Robert Abel and Associates and Digital Productions. In 1986, he an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
