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Andreas Deja (born April 1, 1957) is a Polish-born German-American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several Disney animated films, including the Disney villains Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Jafar in Aladdin, Scar in The Lion King and the title character in Hercules.

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I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance. I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie Johnson, Ward Kimball, all these great animators, and just ask them all these questions about how they did certain things, what their trials and errors were, the ups and downs.

Errors, Johnson, Thomas, Trial And Error, Trials

I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation. ' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with animals. I have a passion for animals. Maybe I would've become a veternarian.

Animal, Animation, Artist, Know, Passion, Veternarian

The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so I thought about the character a lot before I animated it. I really got into the character, where [I] almost felt that pain that she had. The loss of the parents - you need to feel all that. That was a big learning experience for me.

Girl, Honest, Jobs, Kids, Loss, Pain

There will always be stories that require a feature-length format, and there will always be stories that will be told in short-form.

Form, Format, Length, Stories, Told

I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater like Lady and the Tramp and so forth. If you want to animated the dog, you have to know where the ribcage is and the hip bone and all that.

Animated, Cartoon, Character, Characters, Come, Dog

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