Since she was three years old, Kira Lehtomaki has known that she wanted to be an animator at Walt Disney DIS Animation Studios. Through hard work, and a bit of a strange path, Lehtomaki made that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burny Mattinson, who worked as an animator, director, producer and story artist during a 70-year career as the longest-serving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Baer, a pioneering animator who worked at Disney on films ranging from Sleeping Beauty to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and also ...

He worked on films including 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'The Lion King,' and as the founder of Wyn Guitars, he crafted hundreds of unique, much-desired instruments. By Mike ...

Roger Allers, the filmmaker and animator best known for co-directing the 1994 Disney classic "The Lion King," and writing the Tony Award-winning Broadway adaption of the movie, has died, according to ...

It's a warm fall afternoon at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, and a gentle breeze blows through the meticulously landscaped trees lining the walkways. On one end of the campus, a ray of ...

Animator, director, producer and story artist Burny Mattinson, who joined the Walt Disney Company at the end of its first great run of films, when Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942) were new and an ...

Dave Michener, a veteran Disney animator, story artist, and director from 1956 up until his retirement from The Walt Disney Studios in 1987, has died at 85. He passed away on February 15 at his home ...

His 70-year run with the company included work on 'Lady and the Tramp,' 'The Jungle Book,' 'The Lion King,' 'Strange World' and 'The Great Mouse Detective.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Burny ...

Burny Mattinson, a Disney animator, director, producer and story artist, died on Monday, Feb. 27, in Canoga Park, Calif., following a short illness. He was 87. Mattinson’s death was confirmed by The ...