Filmation (1973) Walt Disney Animation Studios (1974–2012)
Spouse
Linda Hesselroth
(m. 1975)
Children
Claire Keane Max Keane
Awards
Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Dear Basketball (2017)
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Glen Keane (born April 13, 1954) is an American animator, director, author and illustrator. As a character animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios for 38 years (1974–2012), he worked on feature films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan and Tangled. He received the 1992 Annie Award for character animation and the 2007 Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to the field of animation. He was named a Disney Legend in 2013, a year after retiring from the studio.
In 2017, Keane directed Dear Basketball, an animated short film based on Kobe Bryant's retirement poem in The Players' Tribune, for which Keane and Bryant received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
GlenKeane (born April 13, 1954) is an American animator, director, author and illustrator. As a character animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios for...
has never seen. Originally conceived and proposed by Disney animator GlenKeane in 2001, Tangled spent six years in production at a cost that has been...
Kent Melton, Glen Keane (2003). Treasure Planet DVD Bonus Materials: Maquettes (DVD). Walt Disney Home Entertainment. GlenKeane (2003). Treasure Planet...
replaced by new talents such as Don Bluth, Ron Clements, John Musker and GlenKeane. The new animators, culled from the animation program at CalArts and trained...
Disney animator GlenKeane and the granddaughter of cartoonist Bil Keane, creator of the comic strip, The Family Circus and Thelma Keane. Keane grew up in...
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film written and narrated by Kobe Bryant and directed and animated by GlenKeane, with music by John Williams. It is based on a letter Bryant wrote for...
and animators, which included John Lasseter, John Musker, Ron Clements, GlenKeane, Tim Burton, Brad Bird, Henry Selick, Chris Buck, Mike Gabriel, and Mark...
weasely, and ratlike. Following the screening of Champagne for Caesar, GlenKeane noted that following the casting of Price, "his expressive voice and attitude...
soundtrack album. Tangled was originally conceived by Disney animator GlenKeane. Subsequently, Walt Disney Animation Studios hired veteran Disney composer...
conducted a series of tests of computer-generated imagery created by GlenKeane and John Lasseter using as their subject Where the Wild Things Are. In...
animation, a fact that Disney used to promote the film during marketing. GlenKeane, a leading animator for Disney films, has also credited Miyazaki's work...
Animation an animated film Shedd. In 2020, he co-directed Over the Moon with GlenKeane, which was released on Netflix the same year. The film was nominated for...
and GlenKeane talked about how great it would be to make an animated feature where the background was computer-animated, and then showed Keane the book...
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