Tom Sito is my 79th choice to be named a Disney Legend. The
following information was gathered at his own website and his Wikipedia
page:
Sito has been called a "key figure in the Disney
Renaissance", and one of the One Hundred Most Important People in
Animation. 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 was summoned by his old mentor Richard Williams in 1987 to
animate on Disney/Amblin's Academy Award-winning hit film Who Framed Roger
Rabbit?. Returning to Los Angeles in 1988, Sito became a mainstay of the Disney
Feature Animation division, contributing to the classic films The Little Mermaid,
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Fantasia 2000, and
Dinosaur. In 2010, Tom Sito was awarded the June Foray Award at
ASIFA-Hollywood's Annie Awards for a lifetime of service to the animation
community.
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