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Russell H. "Russ" Edmonds is an American animator who has worked as a character animator, an animator, a supervising animator, a lead animator and a final line animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He worked on several Disney feature films, including Oliver & Company , The Little Mermaid , The Rescuers Down Under , Beauty and the Beast , Aladdin , The Lion King , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Tarzan , Atlantis: The Lost Empire , Home on the Range , The Princess and the Frog , and Winnie the Pooh . He studied at the Program in Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Along with his wife, Angela, Edmonds owns and directs the Edmonds Studios, an independent animation production studio in Red Bluff, California.

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Filmography

YearTitleCreditsCharacters
1986Snookles (Short)Special Thanks
Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (Short)"Aided and Abetted By"
1987A Story (Short)Thanks
Amazing Stories (TV Series)Principal Animator - 1 Episode
1988Somewhere in the Arctic (Short)Thanks
Oliver & Company Character Animator
1989 The Little Mermaid
1990 The Rescuers Down Under Supervising Animator
1991 Beauty and the Beast Phillipe
1992 Aladdin Animator Aladdin
1993 The Simpsons (TV Series)Animator/Character Designer - 1 Episode
1994 The Lion King Supervising Animator Sarabi
1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Phoebus
Quack Pack (TV Series)Supervising Animator - 1 Episode
1999 Tarzan Supervising Animator Kala
2001 Atlantis: The Lost Empire Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini
2004 Home on the Range Rico, The Willie Brothers and Horses
2005 Kronk's New Groove (Video)Walk Cycle Animator
2006 Curious George Animator: Project Firefly
2007 Slacker Cats (TV Series)Animator - 1 Episode
2008 The Mr. Men Show (TV Series)
2009 Wild About Safety: Timon and Pumbaa Safety Smart Goes Green! (Video short)Animator
Wild About Safety: Timon and Pumbaa Safety Smart in the Water! (Video short)
The Princess and the Frog Animator / Lead AnimatorPrince Naveen, Marcel and Stella
2010 The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)Animator - Segment "What the Oscars would mean to me": "The Princess and the Frog"Prince Naveen
2011 Winnie the Pooh Animator
Bubble Guppies Storyboard Artist - 1 Episode
2012 Paperman (Short)Final Line Animator
2013 Get a Horse! (Short)Animator
2015 Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja (TV Series)Storyboard Artist - 4 Episodes
2019 Wonder Park Story Artist

Awards

Edmonds was nominated for the 1996 Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Animation" as the supervising animator of Phoebus in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame .

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