Gary Trousdale, Under the Wikimedia Common Rights, Date: 11 June, 2014, Source: Own work, Author: Boungawa (accessed October 3, 2018).
Gary Trousdale
, b. 1960
Gary Trousdale is an American animation director. Animation has fascinated him since he was a child, and after deciding not to be an architect, he joined California Institute of the Arts, where he studied animation for three years. At the beginning of his career he drew storyboards, artistic menus for restaurants and designs for t-shirt prints. Finally, in 1985 Trousdale was hired by ‘Disney’ to work on The Black Cauldron. Later on, he worked on directing, above all, Beauty and the Beast andThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, classic Disney movies. After working with Kirk Wise on Atlantis: The Lost Empire he moved to Dreamworks (where he directed inter alia Shrek the Halls)
Bio prepared by Anna Mik, University of Warsaw, anna.m.mik@gmail.com
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