The Big Shot Bear

A 38-year veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Glen Keane is most noted for creating and animating such legendary Disney characters as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, and Tarzan. He also served as supervising animator and executive producer on Tangled. For his contribution to the field of animation, he has received the National Cartoonist Society Animation Award, the Windsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement in Animation, and the Tex Avery Award, and was a Disney Legend Award honoree in 2013. In 2012, he launched Glen Keane Productions and won an Academy Award alongside Kobe Bryant for the animated short “Dear Basketball.” Throughout his fifty-year career, he has continued to write and illustrate his Adam Raccoon children’s book series. He and his wife, Linda, now live in Paris along with their family.