Born: Clifford Adolph Nordberg Birthday: April 18, 1917 Location: Salt Lake City,UT, U.S. Occupation: Inbetweener, Animator Years active: 1938-1974 Died: December 20, 1979 Cliff Nordberg was hired at Disney Animation Studio in 1938 as an inbetweener. He would eventually be mentored by Wolfgang Reitherman, and “Woolie’s” style would become evident

Born: Michael Surrey Birthday: August 17, 1964 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Alma mater: Sheridan College Occupation: Animator, Storyboard, Director Years active: 1990-present Michael Surrey is an animator of some of Disney’s iconic films, beginning with “Beauty and the Beast.” Michael went on to animate the titular character in “Aladdin,” Timon

Born: Ellen Woodbury Birthday: August 10, 1962 Alma mater: Syracuse University Occupation: Animator Years active: 1983-2005 Growing up in western New York, Ellen Woodbury always drew and loved the Warner Bros. cartoons for their silly humor. In high school, she saw a re-release of The Sword in the Stone and

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

Born: William Barnard Justice Birthday: February 9, 1914 Location: Dayton, OH, U.S. Alma mater: Herron School of Art and Design Occupation: Animator Years active: 1937–1979 Died: February 10, 2011 Bill Justice began at Disney as an in-betweener in 1937 on “Snow White” and by the next year had earned a

Born: James Baxter Birthday: May 1967 Location: Bristol, England, UK Alma mater: West Surrey College of Arts & Design Occupation: Animator Years active: 1987–present James Baxter experimented on short animation tests with an 8mm camera at age 16. After one year at Cambridge College of Arts & Technology’s art foundation

Born: Anthony DeRosa Birthday: January 1, 1959 Location: Brooklyn, NY, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts Occupation: Animator, Storyboard Years active: 1981–present Tony DeRosa entered Calarts’ character animation program in 1978 and was a classmate of Mark Henn. After graduation, he participated in his first professional project as

Born: Hal King Birthday: May 5, 1913 Location: MN, U.S. Occupation: Animator Years active: 1930s-1986 Died: September 28, 1986 Hal King began his career at Disney in the late 1930s as an in-betweener on animated shorts. He moved on to features such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, and The Three Caballeros,

Born: David Pruiksma Birthday: January 15, 1957 Location: Falls Church, VA, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts Occupation: Animator, Director, Storyboard Years active: 1981-2018 David Pruiksma was hired as an assistant animator at Disney in 1981, working on such films as The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective,

Born: John Arthur Sibley Birthday: January 25, 1912 Location: Danville, IL, U.S. Alma mater: Corcoran School of Art, The Chicago Institute of Arts Occupation: Animator Years active: 1936-1965 Died: February 15, 1973 < Back To Animation Artist Directory

Born: Nik Ranieri Birthday: August 23, 1961 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Alma mater: Sheridan College Occupation: Animator, Director Years active: 1987-2017 After graduation from Sheridan College, Nik Ranieri was hired by Atkinson Film-Arts animation production studio in Ottawa. Nik’s first work animating for Disney was on the London-based animation crew

Born: Ruben Azama Aquin Birthday: December 18, 1953 Location: Okinawa, Japan Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania Occupation: Animator Years active: 1975–present Ruben began as a as a graphic artist in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1975 to 1979. His first job in animation was as a trainee for Farmhouse Films. Aquino moved

Born: Arthur Harold Babitsky Birthday: October 8, 1907 Location: Omaha, NE, U.S. Alma mater: Don Bluth University Occupation: Director, Animator Years active: 1928–1992 Died: March 4, 1992 Art Babitsky was born in the “Little Bohemia” area of Omaha, Nebraska, grew up in Souix City Iowa, and moved to New York

Born: Duncan Majoribanks Birthday: December 29, 1953 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Alma mater: Sheridan College Occupation: Animator, Storyboard Years active: 1979-2013 After graduating from Sheridan College, Duncan Marjoribanks spent a short time working for a small animation studio in Toronto. When the studio went out of business, Duncan turned his

Born: Hamilton Somers Luske Birthday: October 16, 1903 Location: Chicago, IL, U.S. Alma mater: University of California – Berkeley Occupation: Animator, Director Years active: 1931-1967 Died: February 18, 1968 Ham Luske began his working life as a newspaper cartoonist in Oakland. With no formal art schooling, Luske was hired by