Andrew Alan "Andy" Gaskill is an American animator, art director, and storyboard artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Born in Camden, New Jersey; his father was a U.S. soldier in the Pacific and after the war, was stationed in Tokyo, Japan. There, he met and married a Japanese woman. Gaskill spent his childhood in Japan. At age 9, he and his parents returned to the United States for good and he spent his teen years in the South Jersey/ Philadelphia environs. He graduated in 1969 from Camden Catholic High School before attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as a sculpture major but painted and photographed as well. An offer from Disney brought him to Los Angeles in 1973 where he embarked on a career in the animation industry. He has been privileged to work on such films as The Lion King, Hercules, and Treasure Planet.
Credits[]
- 1974 - Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (animator)
- 1975 - Escape to Witch Mountain (titles animator)
- 1977
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (animator)
- The Rescuers (character animator : Bernard and Miss Bianca)
- 1980 - The Watcher in the Woods (alien designer: Other World sequence)
- 1981 - The Fox and the Hound (animator)
- 1982 - TRON (storyboard artist)
- 1987 - The Brave Little Toaster (directing animator, developmental animator, character designer, and storyboard artist)
- 1989 - The Little Mermaid (visual development artist)
- 1994 - The Lion King (art director, story)
- 1995 - A Goofy Movie (storyboard artist)
- 1997 - Hercules (art director)
- 2000 - The Emperor's New Groove (additional visual development artist)
- 2002 - Treasure Planet (art director)
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