Animation Theater

My first career in art was as a Directing Animator and Character Animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1985 to 2005. The Animation Theater is a double feature. The first screen shows pencil tests of hand-drawn animation scenes from a couple of the films on which I animated. The second screen shows some of my computer animation. I worked very hard to make my computer animation as expressive as my traditional animation. This was something akin to swimming against the current. I think I pretty much made it, though.

Enjoy these examples of my work.

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All Disney images are
© Copyright Walt Disney Animations Studios
and are shown for educational and inspirational purposes only.

All the traditional animation
from "The Lion King", "Aladdin"
and "Hercules" is my own — with
the exception of Baby Hercules
and Young Hercules,
who were animated by
Randy Haycock.
(1:00)

All of this computer animation
from "Chicken Little" is my own.
(1:39)

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Animation Timeline

EllenWOODBURY

EllenWOODBURY

Animation Theater

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Animation Theater

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