The animators that brought this memorable movie to life.

Glen Keane - Supervising Animator Glen Keane is the supervising animator for the character Tarzan in Disney's Tarzan animated film.  Other characters he has done for the Disney studios include Ariel (The Little Mermaid), The Beast (Beauty and the Beast), Aladdin (Aladdin), and Pocahontas (Pocahontas) .  Keane never started out to becoming an animator.  At age 19 he enrolled at CalArts to pursue a career as an editorial cartoonist, but his portfolio was sent to the school of film graphics by mistake.  He decided to give animation a try and it has been a love relationship from the start.  After completing Pocahontas he decided to take a one year break and moved his family to France. In 1996 Disney called him on board to work on Tarzan, and Keane agreed to join the team.  He faithfully studied the original story written by E.R. Burroughs for inspiration in the character designing of Tarzan.  "Burroughs describes him as being able to spring twenty feet across the forest tops or drop twenty feet at a stretch," Keane recalls.  "No human could do that but an animated Tarzan certainly could."

CHARACTER ANIMATION

TARZAN

Supervising Animator - GLEN KEANE

ANIMATORS

   GEORGES ABOLIN                    PIERRE ALARY                  MARCO ALLARD

 DAVID BERTHIER                   BOLHEM BOUCHIBA           PATRICK DELAGE

 ERIC DELBECQ                         THIERRY GOULARD            KRISTOFF VERGNE              

             BORJA MONTORO CAVERO            TRAN-QUANG-THIEU JC

                  ENIS TAHSIN ÖZGÜR                 STÉPHANE SAINTE-FOI

Supervising Animator KEN STUART DUNCAN

Animators

 JARED BECKSTRAND           DOUG BENNETT           ROBERT BRYAN

 CAROLINE CRUIKSHANK           MARK KOETSIER           DOUG KROHN

Supervising Animator RUSS EDMONDS

Animators

 MARIO J. MENJIVAR          DOUGG WILLIAMS           ANDREAS WESSEL-THERHORN

Supervising Animator JOHN RIPA

Animators

  STEVEN PIERRE GORDON           JEFF JOHNSON           YOSHIMICHI TAMURA

Supervising Animator MICHAEL SURREY

Animators

  ADAM DYKSTRA           DANNY GALIEOTE

 DAVID MOSES PIMENTEL           CHAD STEWART

Supervising Animator RANDY HAYCOCK

Animators

 TIM GEORGE           RICHARD HOPPE           MICHAEL STOCKER

Supervising Animator DAVID BURGESS

Animators

DAVID BLOCK           THERESA WISEMAN

Supervising Animator BRUCE W. SMITH

Animators

ROBB PRATT           MARC SMITH

Supervising Animator SERGIO PABLOS

Animators

 JAMES HULL           MIKE KUNKEL

 JEAN MOREL           STEVAN WAHL

Supervising Animator DOMINIQUE MONFERY

Animators

 MARC EOCHE DUVAL           JUANJO GUARNIDO           ZOLTÁN MAROS

Supervising Animator JAY JACKSON

Animator

CATHERINE POULAIN

BABOONS & BABY BABOON

Supervising Animator BRUCE W. SMITH

 

Supervising Animator T. DANIEL HOFSTEDT

 

Supervising Animator CHRIS WAHL

 

ROUGH INBETWEENERS

NOREEN BEASLEY          GEORGE BENAVIDES           CASEY COFFEY

 NEAL STANLEY GOLDSTEIN           BENJAMIN GONZALEZ           NICOLAS KERAMIDAS

 GARY D. PAYNE           BOB PERSICHETTI           CHRIS SONNENBURG

 ALIKI THEOFILOPOULOS           MICHAEL WU

 

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Traditional & Deep Canvas

Supervising Digital Background Painter DAVID MC CAMLEY

Journeymen

 JENNIFER K. ANDO           DOMINICK R. DOMINGO           DEBBIE DU BOIS

OLIVIER BESSON           JUSTIN BRANDSTATER           HYE YOUNG COH

 SCOTT FASSETT JEAN-PAUL           FERNANDEZ THIERRY FOURNIER

 SUSAN HACKETT           JASON HORLEY           DAVID JARVIS

 MI KYUNG JOUNG-RAYNIS          WILLIAM LORENCZ           JERRY LOVELAND

 SERGE MICHAELS           GREGORY C. MILLER           PATRICIA MILLEREAU-GUILMARD

 DON MOORE          PATRICIA PALMER-PHILLIPSON           PIERRE PAVLOFF

 PHILIP PHILLIPSON          WILLIAM T. SILVERS JR.           CHRISTOPHE VACHER

 THOMAS WOODINGTON           DAVID YORKE

Supervising Animator MARK MYER

Visual Effects Animators

ETIENNE AUBERT          THIERRY CHAFFOIN          MARGARET GRAIG-CHIAG

JEFF DUTTON          COLBERT FENNELLY          JAMES MENEHUNE GOSS

CRAIG L. HOFFMAN          TOM HUSH          MICHAEL CADWALLADER JONES

DORSE A. LANPHER          DAN LUND          BRICE MALLIER

DAVID JOSEPH MILDENBERGER          CYNTHIA NEILL KNIZEK          MASA OSHIRO

MOULOUD OUSSID          KATHLEEN QUAIFE          ALLEN M. STOVALL

DAVID TIDGWELL          PHILLIP VIGIL          MARLON WEST

 

Animation Artist Note:  Unfortunately there's not enough room to list all the talented animators and artists that worked so hard on this film.  But we would like to extend our gratitude to all those listed and not listed for working to bring us Disney's animated feature Tarzan.

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