Andy Gaskill
# Andy Gaskill

Andrew Alan Gaskill (born December 29, 1951), nicknamed "Andy", is an American animator, art director, and storyboard artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His work with the animation studio includes Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion King.

Gaskill was chosen as art director for The Lion King after Disney executives saw storyboards that he created for one of the film's songs.

## Biography

Gaskill was born in Camden, New Jersey to an American soldier in the Pacific who was stationed in Tokyo, Japan, after the war, where he met and married a Japanese woman. Gaskill graduated in 1969 from Camden Catholic High School.

