The filmmakers assembled a top team of animators to bring their large ensemble cast of characters to life. Many of the supervising animators (including John Pomeroy, Ron Husband, Dave Pruiksma, Tony DeRosa, Mike Cedeno and Shawn Keller) have been associated with Disney Feature Animation for two decades. Several have supervised characters before (Mike Surrey, Russ Edmunds and Randy Haycock), while others (including Anne Marie Bardwell and Yoshi Tamura) stepped up to the plate with first- time supervising roles on this film.
"We had a great group of people working on this film," notes Hahn. "There was a lot of experience in the ranks, from Gary and Kirk on down, and this was a team which had largely worked together before on 'Beauty' and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.' They communicated well and they had a lot of fun in the process. We had a lot of depth on our bench in terms of creative talent and we discovered some really great new talent as well."
Thomas Schumacher, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, observes, "'Atlantis:
The Lost Empire' presented our creative team with a great opportunity to explore the action- adventure genre in animation and Don, Kirk and Gary have taken full advantage of the medium to tell a great story. They are masters at what they do and this film reflects a new level of maturity and storytelling excellence for them as filmmakers. The film itself has a look and style all its own with a great ensemble of characters that we think audiences are going to love. Everyone seems to have a different theory about Atlantis and it was fun for us to learn about some of those exciting notions and come up with our own mythological take on this fascinating subject."
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