Animator Andreas Deja breathes life into Disney characters and more
Author: Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 2015-08-13,EN
Andreas Deja is a famed Disney animator who during his multiple decades at the Burbank studio brought a reserved humanity to young Lilo in “Lilo & Stitch,” a ghostly menace to the composed malevolence of Jafar in “Aladdin” and a frightening fancifulness to the tortuous Scar in “The Lion King.”
Today, he’s also required reading.
His blog, Deja View, offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the animation process. In the past month, he’s shared stories about his struggles on “The Lion King” and offered short dissections of animation classics, from the flowers with “attitude issues” in “Alice in Wonderland” to the expert tilts-of-the-head that acclaimed Disney artist Milt Kahl brought to Wendy in “Peter Pan.”
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Andreas Deja (subject)Ron Clements (reference)
Danny Elfman (reference)
Daan Jippes (reference)
Milt Kahl (reference)
Eric Larson (reference)
George Lucas (reference)
Fred Moore (reference)
John Musker (reference)
Chris Sanders (reference)
Frank Thomas (reference)
Keywords
Aladdin (1992)Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Animation
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Gaston
Jafar
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Nine Old Men
Peter Pan (1953)
Scar
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The Black Cauldron (1985)
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Lion King (1994)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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