John Pomeroy

John Foster Pomeroy is an American Disney animator. 
Pomeroy started work at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1972 as a background artist and then a full animator. He met fellow animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, and began working with them on an independent short film project, Banjo the Woodpile Cat. In 1979, he, Bluth, Goldman, and several other Disney animators left the studio to form the independent studio Don Bluth Productions which produced the film The Secret of NIMH and the animation for laserdisc video games "Dragon's Lair" and "Space Ace".
He encountered varying degrees of success and failure through the new studio, but Pomeroy was convinced to return to Disney by Don Hahn to work as the supervising animator on John Smith for Pocahontas. While working at Disney, Pomeroy also provided animation for the films Fantasia 2000, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Treasure Planet.
Pomeroy left Disney once again in 2003 and subsequently started to do freelance work and was an animator for various projects, like direct-to video Tom and Jerry films.
He is a talented sculptor, and creates busts that animated film artists use to visualize a 3-D model of their character as well as painted and built historic weapons used in movies.
==Filmography credits==
Year	Film 	Position
1973	Robin Hood 	Assistant animator (uncredited)
1974	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! 	Animator: Rabbit and Christopher Robin / Story (uncredited)
1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Animator: Rabbit / Story (uncredited)
1977	The Rescuers 	Character animator
1977	Pete's Dragon 	Character animator
1978	The Small One 	Directing animator
1981	The Fox and the Hound 	Animator (uncredited)
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Animator (uncredited)
1995	Pocahontas 	Supervising animator: John Smith
2000	Fantasia 2000 	Lead character animator: Firebird from The Firebird Suite Segment
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	Supervising animator: Milo / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
2002	Treasure Planet 	Supervising animator: Captain Flint and His Crew / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
2013	Planes 	Story artist / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
==Gallery==
File:Winnie-the-pooh-disneyscreencaps.com-7913.jpg|Rabbit
File:Christopher Robin Pooh.jpg|Christopher Robin
File:Pocahontas-disneyscreencaps.com-2202.jpg|John Smith
File:Fantasia-disneyscreencaps com-7469.jpg|Firebird
File:Atlantis-disneyscreencaps.com-271.jpg|Milo
File:Treasure-planet-disneyscreencaps.com-64.jpg|Captain Flint
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Category:1950s births
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