Learn from a master animator and artist, Preston Blair. This book is essential for any student or professional wanting to polish their skills. Preston Blair (October 24, 1908 – April 19, 1995) was an American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Productions and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation

Learn from a master animator and artist, Preston Blair. This book is essential for any student or professional wanting to polish their skills. Preston Blair (October 24, 1908 – April 19, 1995) was an American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Productions and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation

New Max Fleischer 1930s style game coming to XboxOne and Steam for Microsoft Windows called “Cuphead”. This game definitely looks amazing, the characters and animation are all done traditionally. I am personally looking forward to playing this game, it is a good thing I own an XboxOne. You can’t get

Born: David Dodd Hand Birthday: January 23, 1900 Location: Plainfield, NJ, U.S. Alma mater: Chicago Art Institute Occupation: Animator Years active: 1919-1986 Died: October 11, 1986 David Hand’s animation career began in 1920s as he worked on the Out of the Inkwell cartoons for Max Fleischer. David was recruited by

Born: Eric Alfred Cleworth Birthday: January 3, 1920 Location: Minneapolis, MN, U.S. Occupation: Inbetweener, Animator, Director Years active: 1938-1989 Died: December 10, 1999 Eric Cleworth started at Disney straight out of high school in 1939. He was hired as an in-betweener for Fantasia and worked his way up to full-animator

Born: Kathy Zielinski Birthday: March 21, 1961 Location: Torrance, CA, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts Occupation: Animator Years active: 1981-present Kathy Zielinski’s enjoyed artwork as a child, but was deeply inspired by Fantasia’s Night on Bald Mountain sequence. She took her first animation class in high school

Born: Howard E. Swift Birthday: August 29, 1912 Location: AR, U.S. Occupation: Animator, Director, Writer Years active: 1938-1983 Died: January 13, 1983 Howard Swift was a straight-ahead animator who got his start at Disney in 1938. With no formal art training, he learned the craft of animation when he was

Born: Retta Scott Birthday: February 23, 1916 Location: Omak, WA, U.S. Alma mater: Chouinard Art Institute Occupation: Animator Years active: 1938-1946 Died: August 26, 1990 Retta Scott was born in Omak, Washington. When Scott was in the 4th grade, she received a scholarship from the Seattle Art & Music Foundation

Born: Richard James Lundy Birthday: August 14, 1907 Location: Sault Ste. Marie, MI, U.S. Occupation: Animator, Director Years active: 1929-1973 Died: April 07, 1990 Dick Lundy began in the ink & paint department at the Disney Studio on Hyperion in the summer of 1929. In just a few months, he

Born: Alexander S. Kupershmidt Birthday: January 27, 1960 Location: Lviv, Ukraine Alma mater: New York School of Visual Arts Occupation: Animator Years active: 1988–present Born in Ukraine, Alex moved to the U.S. as a young man. After graduation from the New York School of Visual Arts in 1982, he began

Born: Randy Haycock Birthday: April 29, 1968 Location: Rangely, CO, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute for the Arts Occupation: Animator, Storyboard, Director Years active: 1990-present Randy Haycock always loved to draw, but it wasn’t until he saw the Disney animated film “Fantasia” when he was 15, that he decided to

Born: William Lokey Birthday: April 5, 1904 Location: Birmingham, AL, U.S. Alma mater: Vanderbilt University Occupation: Animator, Director, Writer Years active: 1920s-1986 Died: November 4, 1990 Hicks Lokey spent his early animation years in the 1920s at Van Beuren Studios, working on Aesop’s Film Fables. In 1934, he became as

Born: Russell H. Edmonds Birthday: October 11, 1961 Location: New York City, NY, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute for the Arts Occupation: Animator, Storyboard, Director, Producer Years active: 1986–present Russ Edmonds began as a self-taught artist working as an engineer at the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant. Ready for a

Born: Dale L. Baer Birthday: June 15, 1950 Location: Denver, CO, U.S. Alma mater: Chouinard Art Institute Occupation: Animator Years active: 1970-2021 Died: January 15, 2021 As a child, Dale Baer fell in love with animation and decided at eight of age that he wanted to work at Walt Disney’s

Born: Bruce Wayne Smith Birthday: September 6, 1961 Location: Los Angeles, CA, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts Occupation: Animator, Storyboard, Director, Producer Years active: 1984-present < Back To Animation Artist Directory