Longtime Disney Animator was a longtime animator who worked on iconic Disney films. She worked on nearly 20 animated Disney films in her career at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Notably, she was a painter for Lilo & Stitch, Pocahontas, and the 1994 version of The Lion King. She also worked in the paint lab dispensary on The Little Mermaid. and resilient woman who chased her dream of life in California and work at Walt Disney and succeeded with grace and resiliency. She followed her sister Helen to California, and after studying at the Art Center in Pasadena, landed a job at Walt Disney in the animation paint lab in the early 1950s. After a work hiatus –she was starting a family of four children – in 1973 she fought her way back into the business, at first at Filmation Hanna Barbera. But all she ever wanted to do was work at the Walt Disney Studios, and she did. Ann rejoined the animation department in time to paint and ink on such Disney classics as The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and Lilo and Stitch. Stunningly, late in her career, she made the switch to computerized animated production at Disney until her retirement in the early 2000s. Two other residents from the same facility also passed away from complications of the coronavirus.– actor Allen Garfield, 80, and John Breier, 64.
Longtime Disney Animator was a longtime animator who worked on iconic Disney films. She worked on nearly 20 animated Disney films in her career at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Notably, she was a painter for Lilo & Stitch, Pocahontas, and the 1994 version of The Lion King. She also worked in the paint lab dispensary on The Little Mermaid. and resilient woman who chased her dream of life in California and work at Walt Disney and succeeded with grace and resiliency. She followed her sister Helen to California, and after studying at the Art Center in Pasadena, landed a job at Walt Disney in the animation paint lab in the early 1950s. After a work hiatus –she was starting a family of four children – in 1973 she fought her way back into the business, at first at Filmation Hanna Barbera. But all she ever wanted to do was work at the Walt Disney Studios, and she did. Ann rejoined the animation department in time to paint and ink on such Disney classics as The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and Lilo and Stitch. Stunningly, late in her career, she made the switch to computerized animated production at Disney until her retirement in the early 2000s. Two other residents from the same facility also passed away from complications of the coronavirus.– actor Allen Garfield, 80, and John Breier, 64.
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