Mel Shaw

[2] Shaw would later join the Harman-Ising Studio, working on the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, as well as MGM's Happy Harmonies series.

Shaw was personally recruited by Walt Disney to work on the 1942 animated classic, Bambi.

[2][3] He left Disney Studios to enlist in the Army Signal Corps, where he served as a combat photographer during World War II.

[2] Shaw partnered with former MGM Studios animator Bob Allen to establish a design firm.

[5][6][7] Shaw died from congestive heart failure on November 22, 2012, at the Woodland Care Center in Reseda, California, at the age of 97.