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David Pruiksma

Born

1957-01-15 (69)

Place of birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Known for

Visual Effects

Credits

1 titles

IMDb profile

American animatorbest known for his work for The Walt Disney Company. He has worked on Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under (Bernard and Miss Bianca), Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts and Chip), Aladdin (The Sultan), The Lion King, Pocahontas (Flit), and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor and Hugo). He attended J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church, Virginia. After high school, he attended Pratt Institute in New York. He later studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. After completing work on 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Pruiksma quit Disney and went into semi-retirement, although he did serve as an animation director and storyboard art…

Known for

Waking Sleeping Beauty poster
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By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2010

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