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* Dick Huemer: Former Fleischer veteran who became a prominent storyboard artist and writer for the studio throughout the decades.
* Dick Lundy: A very skilled animator and director, created the character of [[Donald Duck]] and directed several of his shorts. He would later go on work at MGM's cartoon department on the Barney Bear and Droopy cartoons, and after that went to [[Walter Lantz]]'s studio to work on their Andy Panda, Musical Miniatures and [[Woody Woodpecker]] short subjects.
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* [[Don Bluth]]: Got his start as an assistant animator on [[Sleeping Beauty]], did animation for ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'' and ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'', and was the directing animator for ''[[The Rescuers]]''. Directed ''[[The Small One]]'' and was animation director on ''[[Pete's Dragon]]'' before leaving on his own.
* Don Hahn: began working for Disney on ''Pete's Dragon''. He also worked as associate producer on the animated sequences in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', and later produced ''[[Beauty and the Beast]], ''[[The Lion King]]'', ''[[Fantasia]] 2000'', ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', and ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]''.
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* Mark Henn: Animated Mickey Mouse in "Mickey's Christmas Carol" and worked on Oliver and the Artful Dodger in "Oliver & Company. In 1989 he moved to Florida to help establish the feature animation studio there. He animated Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and young Simba in The Lion King.
* Glen Keane: Began his career as an animator on The Rescuers. He animated the fight scene with the bear in ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]'', and was directing animator on Ariel in ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', Marahute in ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'', Beast in ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]], [[Pocahontas]] and [[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]. Was the initial director and later executive producer of [[Tangled]].
* Joe Grant: Character designer and storyman at Disney during the early years of the Studios. He worked on such films as ''[[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', ''[[Fantasia]]'', ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'', ''[[Make Mine Music]]'', and ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''. He returned to working at the Studio to work on the visual development on ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' and was a story adviser on ''[[Pocahontas]]''.
* Ken O'Brien: animator on features from ''Snow White'' to ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]''.
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* Rob Minkoff: Began his career in the Studios as an inbetweener on ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''. He helped design the character of Basil in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'' and Ursula in ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''. He is associated with the character Roger Rabbit as the director of "Tummy Trouble" and "Roller Coaster Rabbit" and co-producer of "Trail Mix-up". He directed ''[[The Lion King]]'' with Roger Allers.
* John Pomeroy: A close associate of Don Bluth, and was the lead animator of Milo for ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', John Smith for ''[[Pocahontas]]'', and the Firebird for ''[[Fantasia]] 2000''.
* John Musker: Began his career at Disney as an animator on such films as ''[[The Small One]]'', ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]'' and ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''. He co-directed with Ron Clements ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]'', ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' and ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.
* Jack Hannah: Director on most of the Donald Duck shorts.
* Jack King: animator and sequence director on such films as ''[[Pinocchio]]'', ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'', ''[[Dumbo]]'', ''[[The Three Caballeros]]'', ''[[Make Mine Make]]'', ''[[Melody Time]]'', and ''[[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad]]''. Prolific director of the [[Donald Duck]] cartoons; was THE Duck Director until Jack Hannah took over completely.
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* Pinto Colvig: Storyman at Disney, and the original voice of [[Goofy]] and Pluto.
* Preston Blair: A animator for Disney, later famous for the animation he did for the girl from Tex Avery's [[Red Hot Riding Hood]].
* Ron Clements: Assistant and animator on ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'', ''[[The Rescuers]]'', ''[[Pete's Dragon|Petes Dragon]]'', ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]'', and ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''. He, along with John Musker, directed ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', and ''Disney/Aladdin''.
* [[Salvador Dali]]: Alright, this is a stretch, as he didn't actually work for Disney so much as he did a collaboration with Walt on his animation project "Destino"--which wasn't finished until ''2003''.
* Stuart Buchanan: Disney animation staff member who voiced the Huntsman in Snow White.
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