Don Lusk, who has died aged 105, was an animator from the “golden age” of Walt Disney best known for his work on the Fish Dance in the Nutcracker Suite sequence in Fantasia (1940); he described himself as the “little animals guy”. Lusk joined the Disney studios as an “inbetweener” (a person who finishes the scenes in animated cartoons by drawing in between the areas left by the animator) in 1933, working on Goofy shorts, and had his first outing as an animator on Ferdinand the Bull in 1938. He went on to animate key scenes in such classics as Bambi, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty and One Hundred and One Dalmatians. He was responsible for Geppetto’s pet goldfish Cleo and Figaro the cat in Pinocchio and the sequence in Alice in Wonderland where Alice falls through the rabbit hole and her cat Dinah waves goodbye. The Telegraph, London.
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