Glen Keane was born on April 13,1954 and is an American animator, author and illustrator.
24 Facts About Glen Keane
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Glen Keane was a character animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios for feature films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan and Tangled.
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Glen Keane received the 1992 Annie Award for character animation and the 2007 Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to the field of animation.
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In 2017, Keane directed Dear Basketball, an animated short film based on Kobe Bryant's retirement poem in The Players' Tribune, for which Keane and Bryant received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
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Glen Keane was raised in Paradise Valley, Arizona as a Roman Catholic.
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Glen Keane's application was accidentally sent to the Program in Experimental Animation, where he was mentored by Jules Engel.
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Glen Keane left CalArts in 1974 and joined Disney the same year, where he spent three years working with veteran animator Ollie Johnston on the characters Bernard and Penny in The Rescuers.
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In 1982, inspired by the groundbreaking film Tron, Glen Keane collaborated with animator John Lasseter on a 30-second test scene of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, which was optioned for them by Disney executive Tom Wilhite.
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In 1983, Glen Keane left contract employment with Disney and worked as a freelance artist.
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Glen Keane became a lead character animator, one of the group of young animators mentored by "Disney's Nine Old Men".
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Glen Keane designed and animated the character of Ariel in the film The Little Mermaid, and the eagle Marahute in The Rescuers Down Under.
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Glen Keane was supervising animator for the title characters of the three Disney hit features Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas.
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Glen Keane then returned to Disney's Burbank studio as the lead animator for John Silver in Treasure Planet.
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In October 2008, due to "non-life threatening health issues", Glen Keane stepped back as director of Tangled, but remained the film's executive producer and an animating director.
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On March 23,2012, Glen Keane left Walt Disney Animation Studios after 37 years there.
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Glen Keane later said that one of the reasons he left Disney was his experience during the production of Tangled, which underwent several storyline and title changes.
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Glen Keane felt that in a big studio like Disney, there were too many conflicting interests, with management pulling people "in too many different directions".
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In December 2013, it was announced that Glen Keane joined Motorola's Advanced Technology and Projects Group to help its engineers create interactive hand-drawn animation.
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Glen Keane is the creator of the animated short Nephtali, on which he collaborated with choreographer and ballet dancer Marion Barbeau.
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Glen Keane directed the Chinese animated film Over the Moon, about a girl who builds a rocket and flies to the moon to meet a legendary moon goddess.
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At the 2018 Oscars, Glen Keane shared the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with Kobe Bryant for Dear Basketball, which was based on a poem Bryant wrote on his retirement.
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On May 26,2018 Glen Keane received the 2017 Reuben Award for the Cartoonist of the Year in his hometown of Philadelphia, PA.
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In 1975, during the production of his debut film, Glen Keane married Linda Hesselroth.
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Glen Keane has been cited among artists with aphantasia, a condition characterized by an inability to form mental images.