A celebration of the talent and legacy of important animated projects with the creators who made them happen.
Andreas Deja worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation as a supervising animator for 30 years and is credited with work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid (King Triton), Beauty & the Beast, (Gaston), Aladdin (Jafar), The Lion King (Scar), Hercules (Hercules), Lilo & Stitch (Lilo), The Princess & the Frog (Mama Odie), among others.
Andreas is currently finishing production on his independently produced 1/2 hour hand-drawn film Mushka, the story of a story about a Russian girl and a Siberian Tiger.
In this presentation, Andreas will talk about his career at Disney and preview Mushka with pre-production artwork and film clips.
SPEAKER
Andreas Deja
Director // Independent
Andreas Deja first applied for a job as a Disney animator at the age of 10 but he joined the studio at the age of 20, after completing his studies and applying for a position again. Working with Eric Larson, one of Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men," Deja completed several tests and went on to do early character design, costume research and animation for The Black Cauldron. His next assignment was on The Great Mouse Detective, for which he animated the mouse queen and her robotic twin. Deja helped design many of the characters for Oliver & Company and did some animation before spending a year in London as a lead animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, under the direction of Richard Williams.
Andreas went on work on such films as Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King, before relocating to Disney’s Paris facility to oversee the animation of Mickey Mouse in Runaway Brain, the studio’s first new Mickey short since 1953.
In 2007, he was honoured with the Winsor McCay Award from ASIFA (the InternationalAnimated Film Association) and in 2015, he was named a Disney Legend by the Walt Disney Company.
Presently, Andreas Deja is working on his own independent animated short films. He also contributes animation-related material to his blog “Deja View.”
A celebration of the talent and legacy of important animated projects with the creators who made them happen.
Andreas Deja worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation as a supervising animator for 30 years and is credited with work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid (King Triton), Beauty & the Beast, (Gaston), Aladdin (Jafar), The Lion King (Scar), Hercules (Hercules), Lilo & Stitch (Lilo), The Princess & the Frog (Mama Odie), among others.
Andreas is currently finishing production on his independently produced 1/2 hour hand-drawn film Mushka, the story of a story about a Russian girl and a Siberian Tiger.
In this presentation, Andreas will talk about his career at Disney and preview Mushka with pre-production artwork and film clips.
SPEAKER
Andreas Deja
Director // Independent
Andreas Deja first applied for a job as a Disney animator at the age of 10 but he joined the studio at the age of 20, after completing his studies and applying for a position again. Working with Eric Larson, one of Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men," Deja completed several tests and went on to do early character design, costume research and animation for The Black Cauldron. His next assignment was on The Great Mouse Detective, for which he animated the mouse queen and her robotic twin. Deja helped design many of the characters for Oliver & Company and did some animation before spending a year in London as a lead animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, under the direction of Richard Williams.
Andreas went on work on such films as Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King, before relocating to Disney’s Paris facility to oversee the animation of Mickey Mouse in Runaway Brain, the studio’s first new Mickey short since 1953.
In 2007, he was honoured with the Winsor McCay Award from ASIFA (the InternationalAnimated Film Association) and in 2015, he was named a Disney Legend by the Walt Disney Company.
Presently, Andreas Deja is working on his own independent animated short films. He also contributes animation-related material to his blog “Deja View.”
