Ron Husband

Ron Husband (born February 8, 1950) is an American character animator known for his work at Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he has worked since 1975. He was one of the first African-American animators.[1] and, it is argued, the first African-American animator for Disney.[2]

Information

Ron Husband joined The Walt Disney Company in 1975 as an assistant to Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston on "The Rescuers", but his career was almost cut short by a brain tumor. During production of "The Fox and the Hound", Frank and Ollie retired (early 1978) and he was transferred to newly-minted animator Randy Cartwright. His most famous assignments while at Disney were co-animator with Russ Edmonds in "The Rescuers Down Under", animating Gaston with Andreas Deja in "Beauty and the Beast" and Pumbaa with Tony Bancroft and David Pruiksma in "The Lion King", and as supervising animator for Djali in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Elk in the Firebird Suite - 1919 Version segment of Fantasia 2000 and Doctor Joshua Strongbear Sweet in Atlantis: The Lost Empire. From 2002 until retiring in 2015, he worked in the Publishing Group, as an illustrator.

Quick Sketching with Ron Husband

Ron Husband also has published a book called "Quick Sketching with Ron Husband." It lays out the fundamentals of quick sketching and how it benefits an illustrator.[3]

Works

Some of Ron Husband's most recognizable animated works include:

References
  1. Sergio (October 9, 2013). "Disney's first African-American animator: Walt never cared about my color". Salon. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  2. Reif, Alex (July 21, 2016). "Ron Husband: The Story of Disney's First Black Animator". Laughing Place. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  3. "Quick Sketching with Ron Husband". Taylor & Francis Group. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2013.


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