Art Stevens

Art Stevens was an animator at Walt Disney Productions during the Golden Age of American Animation Stevens began as an InBetweener on the 1940 film Fantasia After doing inbetween work on several films he received his first screen credit as a character animator was on Peter Pan in 1953 During his career Stevens contributed to the storyboards and animation in many Disney cartoon shorts and feature films including Ward Kimballs critically acclaimed 1950s television documentaries Man in Space Man and the Moon and Mars and Beyond Stevens was also an animator on the Oscarwinning shorts Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom 1953 and Its Tough to Be a Bird 1969 In 1977 Stevens codirected The Rescuers He then coproduced and codirected The Fox and the Hound 1981 and contributed story work during early production of The Black Cauldron 1985 Stevens retired in 1983 after fortythree years at the Disney animation studio Wikipedia