1. Randy Cartwright graduated from UCLA in 1974, where he made his student animated film, Room and Board, which won several awards and was included in the Fantastic Animation Festival.
10 Facts About Randy Cartwright
1. 2.
Randy Cartwright began his career as an inbetweener for Ollie Johnston on The Rescuers and progressed to full animator on Pete's Dragon.
3.
When Ollie retired to write the book, The Illusion of Life with co-veteran animator Frank Thomas, Randy Cartwright inherited Ollie's supervising animator assignments for the characters of Chief and the adult Copper.
4.
Randy Cartwright combined his knowledge of animation with an understanding of computers to help design and build the first fully digital animation production system.
5.
Randy Cartwright won a Scientific or Technical Academy Award for this work.
6.
Randy Cartwright went on to animate on Zazu for The Lion King and moved into the story department for Hercules.
7.
Randy Cartwright headed the story departments for the DreamWorks films, Antz and Shrek.
8.
Randy Cartwright worked at Disney with John Musker and Ron Clements storyboarding and animating on The Princess and the Frog.
9.
Randy Cartwright filmed two Super 8 sound home movies of the Disney animation department in 1980,1983 with John Lasseter as his cameraman.
10.
Randy Cartwright filmed one more in 1990 on video tape which was 10 years to the day of the first movie with Joe Ranft as the cameraman.