15 Facts About Mike Disa

Michael Disa was born on February 14,1965 and is an American director, screenwriter and animator.

Mike Disa began working as an animator at Disney in the mid-1990s, where he was involved with several films up until the late-2000s.

Mike Disa followed this with Postman Pat: The Movie, which was released in 2014.

Mike Disa was raised on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, near Marquette Park.

Mike Disa grew up in a large Irish Catholic family and served as an altar boy at St Francis of Assisi Parish, where his uncle was a pastor.

Mike Disa attended St Joseph High School and graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1987 with degrees in art and computer programming.

Mike Disa moved to Los Angeles, California in 1990, where he was homeless for six months until he found a job doing digital cleanup of individual animation frames on educational CDs for $1.50 a frame.

Mike Disa went on to do effects works on films, video game design, freelance work on the animated television series Tiny Toon Adventures, and animation for Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Mike Disa eventually joined as an animator at the Walt Disney Company, where he worked on Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, The Tigger Movie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, Home on the Range, and Pooh's Heffalump Movie.

Mike Disa worked on Looney Tunes: Back in Action, before spending a year developing a film called Wings with Warner Bros.

Mike Disa worked as a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon's animated film Barnyard and Disney's direct-to-DVD, animated film Tinker Bell.

Mike Disa left Disney for a time, but was asked to return to the studio to develop The Seven Dwarfs, an animated prequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which would have been produced by DisneyToon Studios.

Mike Disa left over creative differences when executives wanted Dopey to talk, a decision that he felt disrespected the original film in which the character is silent.

Mike Disa met his wife, Laura Hogan, while at Northern Illinois University.

Mike Disa is a Catholic and his patron saint is St Michael, the patron saint of police officers.