Rusty Stoll, Lead Key Assistant Animator
That's right pardner's...Russell "Rusty" Stoll shares his nickname with old dogs, lame horses and cowboys and for him life's been one great big adventure...from his early days of playing in the backlots of the Old Hollywood movie studios out west to starting his artistic career as the ship's artist on the USS Hornet that plucked the first men on the moon out of the South Pacific waters.
Rusty studied with some of the Disney old timers at Art Center College of Design and has been in the animation business goin' on 26 years (18 of em' with the mouse house) and has wrangled with Disney and many other illustrious animation hombres. Why he even taught for a spell in Paris and Milan. Other than a clean-up guy, he's been an animator, designer, illustrator, journalist, painter and gardener. How do ya like them apples?...
But the apples of his eyes are his lovely wife, Natasha, a concert pianist from Moscow, their son Valery, and Christina, along with his very special lad, Sean. He's a workin' on teachin' 'em all how to say "yippie-ai-o-kai-yeh" and to develop a fascination for moths...