John Foster Pomeroy is an American Disney animator.
Pomeroy started work at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1973 as a background artist then a full animator. He met fellow animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, and began working with them on an independent short film project, Banjo the Woodpile Cat. In 1979, he, Bluth, Goldman, and several other Disney animators left the studio to form the independent studio Don Bluth Productions which produced the film The Secret of NIMH and the animation for laserdisc video games "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace".
He encountered varying degrees of success and failure through the new studio, but Pomeroy was convinced to return to Disney by Don Hahn to work as the supervising animator on John Smith for Pocahontas. While working at Disney, Pomeroy also provided animation for the films Fantasia 2000, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Treasure Planet.
Pomeroy left Disney once again in 2003 and subsequently started to do freelance work and was an animator for various projects, like direct-to video Tom and Jerry films.
He is a talented sculptor, and creates busts that animated film artists use to visualize a 3-D model of their character as well as painted and built historic weapons used in movies.
Disney filmography credits[]
Year | Film | Position |
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1974 | Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! | Animator |
1977 | The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | Animator |
The Rescuers | Character Animator: Penny | |
Pete's Dragon | Character Animator | |
1978 | The Small One | Directing Animator |
1995 | Pocahontas | Supervising Animator: John Smith |
2000 | Fantasia 2000 | Lead Character Animator: Firebird from The Firebird Suite Segment |
2001 | Atlantis: The Lost Empire | Supervising Animator: Milo |
2002 | Treasure Planet | Supervising Animator: Captain Flint and His Crew |
2013 | Planes | Story Artist |
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