He began his career as an inbetweener for Ollie Johnston on The Rescuers and progressed to full animator on Pete's Dragon.

He also worked at Disney with John Musker and Ron Clements storyboarding and animating on The Princess and the Frog.

He filmed two Super 8 sound home movies of the Disney animation department in 1980, 1983 with John Lasseter as his cameraman.

He also filmed one more in 1990 on video tape which was 10 years to the day of the first movie with Joe Ranft as the cameraman.

Excerpts of these movies have been seen in the documentary The Pixar Story and more extensively in Waking Sleeping Beauty.