Randy Cartwright

Randy Cartwright (born October 31, 1951 in Virginia) is an American animator.

Randy Cartwright
At the Disney Studio in 1991
Born (1951-10-31) October 31, 1951
OccupationAnimator
Years active1974–present

Randy graduated from UCLA in 1974 where he made his student animated film, Room and Board, which won several awards and was included in the Fantastic Animation Festival . While going to school he worked at Disneyland in the character department and portrayed Pluto, Practical Pig, Dopey, Prince John and many other characters during the three years he worked there.

In 1975 he was accepted into the Walt Disney Studios animation training program headed by the veteran Disney animator Eric Larson. He began his career as an inbetweener for Ollie Johnston on The Rescuers and progressed to full animator on Pete's Dragon.

Ollie asked Randy to work with him on The Fox and the Hound in 1981. When Ollie retired to write the book, The Illusion of Life with co-veteran animator Frank Thomas, Randy inherited Ollie's supervising animator assignments for the characters of Chief and the adult Copper.

After animating on Mickey's Christmas Carol and doing early experimental animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, he received an offer to work for TMS in Japan training animators on Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. From there, he moved to Taiwan as a directing animator on The Brave Little Toaster.

In 1986 he returned to Disney as the Artistic Lead for the Disney CAPS development team. He combined his knowledge of animation with an understanding of computers to help design and build the first fully digital animation production system. He won a Scientific or Technical Academy Award for this work.

He animated Belle in Beauty and the Beast and became the directing animator for the Magic Carpet in Aladdin. He went on to animate on Zazu for The Lion King and moved into the story department for Hercules.

He headed the story departments for the DreamWorks films, Antz and Shrek.

He also worked at Disney with John Musker and Ron Clements storyboarding and animating on The Princess and the Frog.

His daughter, Mariel (known online as Kinuko), is an illustrator and animator who worked on a number of WayForward video games, including Shantae: Risky's Revenge, Batman: The Brave and the Bold , Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. She also serves as the lead animator at Lab Zero Games, having worked on their titles Skullgirls and Indivisible.

Filmography

Year Title Credits Characters
1974Room and Board (Short)Producer / Writer / Director / Animation
1977Fantastic Animation FestivalAnimator: "Room and Board"
The RescuersAssistant Animator (uncredited)
Pete's DragonCharacter Animator
1979Doctor of Doom (Short)Voice / Sound EngineeringRosita's Father's Voice / Rosita's Voice / Pepe's Voice / Monster's Voice (Voice)
1981The Fox and the HoundSupervising AnimatorAdult Copper and Chief
1982Luau (Short)Cinematographer / VoiceBartender (Voice)
1983Mickey's Christmas Carol (Short)Animator
1985The Black CauldronCharacter Animator
1987The Brave Little ToasterDirecting Animator
1990The Rescuers Down UnderDigital Production System Developer
1991Beauty and the BeastAnimatorBelle
1992AladdinSupervising AnimatorMagic Carpet
1994The Lion KingAnimatorZazu
1995PocahontasAdditional Story Development
1996Quack Pack (TV Series)Storyboard - 1 Episode
1997HerculesStory
1998AntzHead of Story
The Prince of EgyptAdditional Story Artist
2000Chicken RunAdditional Story Artist
The Road to El DoradoAdditional Storyboard Artist
2001Morto the Magician (Short)Special Thanks
ShrekCo-Head of Story
2003Passing the Baton (Video documentary short)Special Thanks
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven SeasAdditional Story Artist
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black PearlAnimator: ILM
2004The Polar ExpressCharacter Animator
2005Dream On Silly Dreamer (Documentary short)Himself / Archive Footage Provider
MadagascarAdditional Story Artist
2006Charlotte's WebAnimation Advisor
2007The Pixar Story (Documentary)Himself / Additional Archival Materials
2009The Princess and the FrogStory Artist / AnimatorPrince Naveen
2010Waking Sleeping Beauty (Documentary)Himself
2011HopStoryboard Artist
2013 - 2017Sofia the First (TV Series)Storyboard Artist - 6 Episodes / Storyboard Revisionist - 1 Episode
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