Russ Edmonds

Russ Edmonds is an American animator most noted for his character animation at the Walt Disney Company. He worked on several Disney feature films, including Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Tarzan. He studied at the Program in Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Along with his wife, Angela, Edmonds owns and directs the Edmonds Studios, an independent animation production studio in Red Bluff, California.

Selected Credits

Supervising Animator

• Max - The Little Mermaid (Disney, 1989)
• Cody - The Rescuers Down Under (Disney, 1990)
• Phillipe - Beauty and the Beast (Disney, 1991)
• Sarabi - The Lion King (Disney, 1994)
• Phoebus And Achilles - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney, 1996)
• Kala - Tarzan (Disney, 1999)
• Vinny - Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney, 2001)
• Rico, Willies - Home on the Range (Disney, 2004)
• Tigger - Winnie the Pooh (Disney, 2011)

Animator

• Oliver, Dodger - Oliver & Company (Disney, 1988)
• Aladdin - Aladdin (Disney, 1992) (Glen Keane, Supervising Animator)
• Dog - Family Dog (CBS, 1993)
• George, Ted - Curious George (Universal, 2006)

Awards

Edmonds was nominated for the 1996 Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Animation" as the supervising animator of Phoebus in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

References

• Beck, Jerry, The Animated Movie Guide, Chicago Review Press, 2005, 348pp, ISBN 1556525915
• Hill, Sally M.'Atlantis' animator visits Houston, The Daily Cougar, University of Houston, July 27, 2001
• Pair of Disney artists to exhibit 'Ranch Art' Redding Record,Scripps Interactive Newspapers January 13, 2008

External links

• Edmonds Studios animation website
• Russ Edmonds at IMDb