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Deja is best known as the supervising animator of some of the most memorable Disney villains: Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Jafar in Aladdin, Scar in The Lion King and Queen Narissa in Enchanted.
Andreas Deja. Animation Department: Mushka. Andreas Deja was born on 1 April 1957 in Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland. He is an assistant director, known for Mushka (2023), The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Winnie the Pooh (2011).
Andreas Deja is a Polish animator, who joined the animation department of Walt Disney Productions in the 1980s, and soon established himself as a supervising animator on several villains in Disney animated features.
Jun 17, 2023 · Andreas Deja, Animayo, Annecy Animation Festival. Disney legend Andreas Deja talks about how his childhood dream, professional life coming full circle with his directorial debut, ‘Mushka.’.
May 5, 2023 · After a decade in development and production, Disney great Andreas Deja is now introducing the world to his directorial debut Mushka.
Having been mentored by some of animation’s greatest legends, Andreas Deja is at once a link to Disney’s past, one of the greatest animators of its modern era, and an inspiration for the Studio’s future. Andreas is living proof of the most beloved Disney notion about dreams coming true.
Join us for an interview with Deja as he discusses his decades-long career with The Walt Disney Studios animating many iconic characters including Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (1991), Jafar in Aladdin (1992), and the titular hero in the Greek mythology-inspired Hercules (1997).
