Dr. Stuart S. Sumida
Anatomical Consulting for
Animation and Special Effects with
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Beauty and the Beast
Designed and anatomical lectures for design of equine (“Philipe, Belgian draft horse) and canid characters.
Walt Disney Feature
Animation California Animator Development Program
Provided
complete course and overview of comparative vertebrate anatomy with dissection
for new Disney Animators as well as review for veteran animators.
Consultant
on comparative anatomy, biomechanics, and character design for summer 1994
feature animation release. Topics
included all animal characters in the film and computer graphic character
design. (Screen credit.)
Consultant on (1) human anatomy and locomotion; (2) differences on human with emphasis on sexual dimorphism; and (3) biological species diversity and issues of human populational variation.
Dinosaur
Consultant on comparative anatomy of dinosaurs, particularly the genus Iguanodon.
Consultant on equine anatomy, human anatomy, and martial arts fight sequences.
Walt Disney
Feature Animation Studios, Paris, France, 1995, Animator Development Program
Training in anatomical structure and comparative mammalian anatomy Paris France division of the Walt Disney Company.
Consultant on equine, avian, and human anatomy.
Instruction
in comparative animal anatomy, particularly gorillas, humans, elephants, and
developmental features of both gorillas and humans from juvenile to adult. (Screen
credit.)
Instruction in anatomy of elk for Firebird sequence.
Consultation
on dog anatomy for scene in which Stitch acts like a dog. Also worked with animators on various
aspects of “alien biomechanics”.
Anatomy
and locomotion studies on bears and moose.
(Screen credit.)
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