- Randy Cartwright
Randy Cartwright (born
October 31 ,1951 inVirginia ) is an Americananimator .Randy graduated from
UCLA in 1974 where he made his student animated film, "Room and Board", which won several awards and was included in the Fantastic Animation Festival [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241436] . While going to school he worked atDisneyland in the character department and portrayed Dopey, Practical Pig, Prince John, Pluto and many other characters during the three years he worked there.In 1975 he was accepted into the Walt Disney Studios animation training program headed by the veteran Disney animator
Eric Larson . He began his career as an inbetweener forOllie Johnston on "The Rescuers " and progressed to fullanimator on "Pete's Dragon ".Ollie asked Randy to work with him on "The Fox and the Hound" in 1981. When Ollie retired to write the book,
The Illusion of Life with co-veteran animator Frank Thomas, Randy inherited Ollie's supervising animator assignments for the characters of Chief and the adult Copper.After animating on "
Mickey's Christmas Carol " and doing early experimental animation for Roger Rabbit he received an offer to work for TMS inJapan training animators on "". From there, he moved toTaiwan as a directing animator on "The Brave Little Toaster".In 1986 he returned to Disney as the Artistic Lead for the Disney CAPS development team. He combined his knowledge of animation with an understanding of computers to help design and build the first fully digital animation production system. He won a Scientific or Technical Academy Award for this work.
He animated Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" and became the directing animator for the Magic Carpet in "Aladdin". He went on to animate on
Zazu for "The Lion King " and moved into the story department for "Hercules".He also headed up the story departments for the
Dreamworks films, "Antz " and "Shrek ".He is currently working at Disney with
John Musker andRon Clements storyboarding andanimating on "The Princess and the Frog ".External links
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