There, a fellow alumnus told Meador he was traveling to California to be interviewed at Walt Disney Productions, and suggested for him to come along.
At first, Meador refused as he wanted to do commercial art, but he was coerced into interviewing at Disney.
Meador also created the animation effects for the 1956 MGM science-fiction film Forbidden Planet,[3] most notably the "Monster from the Id" that attacks the spaceship.
[1] In August 1965, Meador suffered a heart attack and died at his residence in Casper, California.
[4] He is buried at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi,[1] which was also his hometown.