Tony Fucile

Born: Anthony Neil Fucile
Birthday: September 27, 1964
Location: San Francisco, CA, U.S.
Occupation: Animator, Writer, Storyboard
Years active: 1981–present

Tony Fucile has spent over thirty years designing and animating characters for cartoon feature films. Beginning at Disney on 1988’s “Oliver and Company,” Tony demonstrated his traditional animation skills on such films as “The Little Mermaid,” “FernGully: The Last Rainforest,” “Aladdin,” “The Lion King,” “The Iron Giant,” and “Osmosis Jones.”

Fucile then crossed over into computer animation at Pixar for “Wall-E,” “Finding Nemo,” “Ratatouille,” and “The Incredibles” as a supervising animator.

Tony was also an animator for 2019’s Klaus.

The Author

Lavalle Lee

Lavalle Lee has been creating animated cartoons online since 1999/2000 for his website flashcartoons.org. Many cartoons on the site have gained viral video status reaching millions of viewers online. In 2009, Lavalle started learning hand drawn animation from Don Bluth in his animation classes, as well as attending his Masterclasses in Arizona. He has also personally studied animation and visual effects from Veteran Disney animators in Orlando, FL.

Lavalle is widely known in the animation industry as the creator of the TraditionalAnimation.com website. After seeing that most animation sites were about all types of animation, not any specific to classical hand drawn animation, Lavalle knew Traditional Animation needed to be represented online. TraditionalAnimation.com has become the leading website and social media account for all things 2D. The website served as inspiration for “The Traditional Animation Show” in which Lavalle was both producer and host.

His partnership with Don Bluth began when he championed the Dragon's Lair Indiegogo campaign as lead project manager, editor, voice actor and in-betweener. The campaign reached $730,000 dollars to produce a 7-minute pitch video. In 2017, Lavalle brought the idea of creating a school to Don Bluth, and Don Bluth University was born. After a decade of learning from Don Bluth and working together on multiple pitches and business ventures, Lavalle accepted the position as Vice President of Don Bluth's new company Don Bluth Studios.