Andreas Deja

[SophieCub]

Poland? Cool

[PrincessKiara]

Poland? Cool

I heard/read somewhere that he grew up in Germany, but Deja didn`t sound very German to me, so I was curious as to where he was originally from. It`s great that there are people from other countries working for Disney.

[PrinceTaka]

He is from Poland? Well you'll learn something new every day. He is one of the best animators at the studio. He did nice job with Scar, anyone else knew that he also animated Gaston and Jafar?

[PrincessKiara]

^ I knew he worked on Jafar, but not Gaston. He seems to favour the villains, lol.

[Noah]

Sad news everyone. Apparently Andreas is no longer at Disney

I spent 30 years at Disney. Right now I am focusing on my own animated short films, sculpting with wire and this Blog. I might be back at Disney some time.....who knows.

This scares me for two reasons: The first is that fact that we've lost a great animator (he's done everything from Tigger to Lilo to Hercules to Mama Odie to himself). The second reason is that I'm fearing Disney is no longing planning to do traditional animation anymore.