Clay Kaytis

Clay Kaytis is an American animator currently working at Disney Animation Studios. Kaytis first started as a intern at Disney and in 1994 was hired as a full time animator on . After that, he animated multiple films. He was a supervising animator in Tangled in 2010.
Kaytis has always been interested in 3D animation, but in the 90's, there wasn't a lot of opportunities for people wanting to start in 3D. Plus, Kaytis wanted to work at Disney and Disney wasn't making 3D films at the time. So, Clay started working on films in 2D animation. He continued working on with 2D films until .
Kaytis produces an Animation Podcast animationpodcast.com, where he interviews other animators. These animators include:Andreas Deja, Nik Ranieri, John Musker, Ron Clements, Eamonn Butler, Glen Keane, Burny Mattinson, Ray Harryhausen, Dale Baer, , Ken Duncan, and .
Works
*1995, (inbetween artist: additional clean-up animation)
*1996, (breakdown animator: "Clopin")
*1997, (rough inbetweener)
*1998, Mulan (rough inbetweener)
*1999, (additional rough inbetweener)
*1999, Fantasia 2000 (assistant animator)
*2000, The Emperor's New Groove (animator: "Pacha")
*2002, Treasure Planet (animator: "Scroop")
*2004, Home on the Range (animator: "Farm Animals")
*2005, (animator: "Buck Cluck")
*2007, Meet the Robinsons (animator)
*2008, (supervising animator)
*2010, Tangled (animation supervisor)
 
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