Andreas Deja

Andreas Deja

Andreas Deja first applied for a job as a Disney animator at the age of 10. Born in Poland and raised in Germany, he recalls writing to the studio immediately after seeing “The Jungle Book.” “I’d never seen a Disney movie before,” she recalls. “It was such a life-changing experience because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. All those drawings that moved and thought and acted so real.”
The Studio replies to Deja explaining that it is not possible at the moment but that they are always looking for new talent. This offers him the encouragement he needs and the motivation to work hard towards this goal.

In “The Little Mermaid,” Deja animates King Triton, a powerful figure who requires drawing and acting skills. For Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated musical “Beauty and the Beast,” he is supervising animator for the first of his many Disney villains, the pompous and narrow-minded Gaston.
Deja continues to explore his darker side by designing and animating the evil vizier Jafar for Disney’s animated musical “Aladdin” (1992).
He later supervised animator on the power-hungry villain Scar in “The Lion King,” which is not only one of Walt Disney Studios’ most successful films, but quickly earns a place as one of the industry’s greatest films of all time. times.
For the next assignment, Deja moved to Disney’s Paris headquarters to supervise the animation of Mickey Mouse on “Runaway Brain”: Disney’s first new Mickey Mouse short since 1953, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1996.
He later returned to Burbank, where he took on the task of bringing to life and giving personality to the hero of Disney’s 35th feature film, “Hercules“.

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