Tom Sito
Adjunct Faculty

Tom Sito's screen credits include the Disney classics THE LITTLE MERMAID 1989, BEAUTY & THE BEAST 1991, ALADDIN 1992, THE LION KING 1994, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBITT 1988, POCAHONTAS 1995, DINOSAURS 2000 and FANTASIA 2000. Animation World Network called Tom "one of the key players in the Disney Animation Revival" ( January 2001 ) In 1995 he left a Disney directorship post to help set up the Dreamworks Animation unit. He worked on THE PRINCE OF EGYPT 2001, ANTZ 1999, PAULIE 1998, SPIRIT, STALLION OF THE CIMMARON 2002, and was the storyboard supervisor for a time on the award winning film SHREK 2001.

Tom also helped animate the title sequence of CITY SLICKERS, the 1982 Emmy award winning ABC special ZIGGY'S GIFT 1982, directed 22 hours of Sat morning television including FAT ALBERT, HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, SHE-RA and numerous commercials. Tom co-directed the animation for Warner Bros. OSMOSIS JONES 2001 and did storyboards for Warners Bros THE LOONEY TUNES MOVIE 2003 and Fox's GARFIELD 2004 and SON OF THE MASK 2005. He has his own company called Gang of Seven Animation and is currently directing episodes of the tv series BIKER MICE FROM MARS and directing animation for the documentary FLOCK OF DODOS (2006).

Tom Sito has produced short films, is an Adjunct Professor of Animation at the University of Southern California and UCLA and has written numerous articles for Animation Magazine and Animation World Network. He has lectured on animation at NYU, SVA, Cal Arts, AFI, SCAD, BYU, Univ.of Washington, Microsoft, Woodbury College, Capilano College, VFS and Sheridan College in Canada, EURO-CARTOON, the Ecole Du Grand Gobelin in Paris and Cartoon Masters in Erfurt Germany, ICA Channel 4/MESH in London, The Animation Academy of Viborg Denmark, The Filmakademie Stuttgart, The Animar Festival in Palma Majorca, The Beijing Film Academy and the Yomiuri New Media Forum in Tokyo.

He is President-Emeritus of the Hollywood Animation Guild Local 839 Hollywood and is vice president of the International Animator's Society (ASIFA/Hollywood) He is a member of the Motion Picture Academy, the National Cartoonists Society and Hollywood Heritage.

His first book "Drawing the Line: the Untold Story of Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson", is due out in the fall from University Press of Kentucky.

In 1998 he was named in Animation Magazine's list of "the 100 Most Important People in Animation".