John Foster Pomeroy (born March 26, 1951) is an American animator who has worked for several major studios, including

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and

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. He has also worked as producer, and screenwriter on several animated feature films.

Career

John Pomeroy started work at

in 1973 as a background artist, and became a full animator in 1974 to work on ''

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''. While working at Disney, he met fellow animators

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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 ''

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'' and the animation for

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s '' Dragon's Lair'' and '' Space Ace''. The independent studio encountered financial difficulties and declared bankruptcy in 1984, but reformed soon after as Sullivan Bluth Studios and opened a major animation facility in

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, Ireland. Pomeroy remained at the Dublin studio to work as the directing animator and producer on '' An American Tail'' and '' The Land Before Time'', before moving back to America in 1989 to form a new US wing of the company. After working with Sullivan Bluth for thirteen years, Pomeroy was convinced to return to Disney by

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to work as the supervising animator on John Smith for ''

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''. While working at Disney, Pomeroy also provided animation for the films ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

Treasure Planet ''Treasure Planet'' is a 2002 American animated science fiction action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The 43rd Disney animated feature film, it is a science fiction adaptati ...

''. Pomeroy then left Disney once again in 2003 during the period where they briefly shut down their traditional animation department and subsequently started to do freelance work and was an animator for '' Curious George'', and most recently, ''

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'', as well as ''

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'', '' Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon'', '' Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest'', '' Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz'', '' Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'', '' Space Jam: A New Legacy'' and '' Disenchanted''. He is a talented sculptor, and creates busts that animated film artists use to visualize a 3-D model of their character. John Pomeroy is also a painter of historic events, and builder of historic weapons used in movies. He is currently on the elders board at a Village Christian School in

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Filmography

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External links

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