21 Facts About Tom Sito

Tom Sito was born on May 19,1956 and is an American animator, animation historian and teacher.

Tom Sito is currently a professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in the Animation Division.

In 1998, Sito was included by Animation Magazine in their list of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation.

Tom Sito was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a fireman.

Tom Sito first began studying animation while attending cartooning classes at the High School of Art and Design.

Tom Sito continued his animation studies at The School of Visual Arts with Howard Beckerman, cartooning under Harvey Kurtzman, Gil Miret, Howard Beckerman and Robert Beverly Hale.

Tom Sito graduated from SVA in 1977 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts.

Tom Sito met his wife, Pat, at SVA and the two were married on January 4,1980.

Additionally, Tom Sito studied life drawing at The Art Students League of New York under Robert Beverly Hale.

Tom Sito assisted retired Disney animator Shamus Culhane on one of his final projects, a 1977 education short entitled Protection in the Nuclear Age.

Tom Sito left the Disney studio in 1995 to help set up the animation unit of DreamWorks SKG, later DreamWorks Animation.

Tom Sito worked on the films Antz, The Prince of Egypt, Paulie and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

Tom Sito has lectured about animation around the world and has taught animation and animation history at UCLA Film School, The American Film Institute, Woodbury College and Santa Monica College.

Tom Sito became an instructor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1994 and in December 2014 was named Chair of the John C Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts at USC.

Tom Sito was interviewed for the PBS American Experience documentary "Walt Disney" for WGBH Boston.

Tom Sito wrote the story for the short "Flash in the Pain", which appeared in the 2016 animated film Storks.

In 2006, Tom Sito wrote Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson, which has been hailed as a seminal work on the history of the labor movement in American animation.

The London Review of Books said "Tom Sito's book contains the best account yet of the 1941 Walt Disney Strike, with documentation from the union side".

In 2013, Tom Sito published Moving Innovation, A History of Computer Animation through MIT Press.

In 2019, Tom Sito published "Eat, Drink, Animate: An Animator's Cookbook" through CRC Press.

In 2010, Tom Sito was awarded the June Foray Award at ASIFA-Hollywood's Annie Awards for "significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation".