< Back To Animation Artist Directory Born: Lavalle Lee Birthday: September 14, 1981 Location: Twin Cities, MN, U.S. Alma mater: Don Bluth University Occupation: Director, Producer, Animator, Writer Years active: 1999–present Lavalle Lee has been creating animated cartoons online since 1999/2000 for his website flashcartoons.org. The cartoons on the site

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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Born: John McAnuff Sanford Birthday: October 1, 1971 Location: Denver, CO, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts Occupation: Animator, Storyboard, Director, Writer Years active: 1993-present John Sanford is a writer, storyboard artist, animator, and director who has worked since 1993 for studios like Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Nick Toons,

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Born: Michael John Kricfalusi Birthday: September 9, 1955 Location: Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada Alma mater: Sheridan College Occupation: Animator, Writer, Director, Producer, Storyboard Years active: 1979-2020

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Born: Christopher Michael Sanders Birthday: March 12, 1962 Location: Colorado Springs, CO, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts Occupation: Animator, Storyboard, Director Years active: 1984-present Chris Sanders was born into an artistic household as the middle child of three. Chris remembers, his father provided Blackwing pencils and computer

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Born: William Bartlett Peet Birthday: January 29, 1915 Location: Grandview, IN, U.S. Alma mater: John Herron Art Institute Occupation: Inbetweener, Storyboard, Writer Years active: 1937–1990 Died: May 11, 2002 Bill Peet developed a love of drawing from a young age, filling sketchbooks with drawings. His happiest childhood memories were of

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Born: John Alan Lasseter Birthday: January 12, 1957 Location: Hollywood, CA, U.S. Alma mater: California Institute of the Arts Occupation: Animator, Writer, Director, Producer, Storyboard Years active: 1978-present John Alan Lasseter was born in Hollywood and grew up in Whittier, California. As a child, Lasseter would race home from school

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