Pocahontas

Eric Goldberg is an American animator and film director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Goldberg was raised in Levittown, Pennsylvania and moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey as a child, where he attended Cherry Hill High School East. Goldberg later studied at Pratt... Institute, where he majored in illustration. He first entered the industry in the mid-1970s working on Raggedy Ann and Andy for the Richard Williams studio, eventually moving to Williams' London studio and rising through the ranks from assistant to director. During the 1980s, Goldberg started his own London-based studio, Pizazz Pictures, to produce television commercials. Later, Goldberg closed his studio to work at Disney Animation Studios, Burbank, California, to work on the film, Aladdin, where he became the lead animator on the character Genie, and later the lead animator on Phil in Hercules . Goldberg also was the co-director of Disney's 1995 feature Pocahontas. During his time as the lead animator for the Genie, he also provided the majority of the original animation for MC Skat Kat's "Big Time" music video, which was finished in 1992 but left unaired.
more

Mike Gabriel is an American animator and film director, best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios and as co-director of the Disney films The Rescuers Down Under and Pocahontas . Gabriel studied in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He began his... career as a Disney animator on the 1982 animated short Fun with Mr. Future. He was mentored under Eric Larson's training program, and went on to work on the 1985 feature The Black Cauldron. He also served as an animator on The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver and Company . Hendel Butoy joined Gabriel to direct The Rescuers Down Under, a sequel to the successful 1977 Disney film The Rescuers, while Eric Goldberg and Gabriel collaborated on Pocahontas. In 2004, Gabriel directed an animated short for Disney entitled Lorenzo, a hybrid of traditional and computer animation about a lazy cat who has a spell cast on his tail that forces it to tango with him. Lorenzo was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Short. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2004.
more