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Retta Scott Worcester | Penguin Random House

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Retta Scott Worcester (1916-1990) was an American artist and the first woman to receive a screen credit as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Throughout her career, she worked on the films...

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“Retta had an astounding ability to draw powerful animals. She seemed to have a keen understanding of their moods and attitudes.”

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“Retta had an astounding ability to draw powerful animals. She seemed to have a keen understanding of their moods and attitudes.”

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Bambi former supervising animator Frank Thomas recalled,

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Legends Award Category: Animation
Year Inducted: 2000

Though Retta Scott's career at Disney was brief, she left an indelible mark as the Studio's first woman animator, receiving screen credit on the 1942 classic Bambi. As Bambi former supervising animator Frank Thomas recalled, "Retta had an astounding ability to draw powerful animals. She seemed to have a keen understanding of their moods and attitudes."

Born in Omak, Washington, on February 23, 1916, Retta graduated from Seattle's Roosevelt High School in 1934. She moved to Los Angeles to attend Chouinard Art Institute on scholarship and spent much of her free time sketching wildlife at the nearby Griffith Park Zoo.

While her heart was originally set on a fine arts career, the school's director encouraged Retta to apply at Disney. In 1938, she joined the Story department working on Bambi. Her stunning story sketches and character development caught the attention of Walt Disney and director Dave Hand, so when the film went into production she was assigned to animate scenes featuring hunting dogs chasing Faline.

As she later recalled, "I developed the hunting dogs into vicious, snarling beasts... running and scrambling, trying to climb the cliff and sliding back."

After Bambi, Retta worked on Dumbo and then animated the weasels in the "Wind in the Willows" segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In 1941, she appeared in Disney's feature film The Reluctant Dragon, starring Robert Benchley.

Later that year, when the Studio hit a slump, she and other artists were laid off. Retta returned to Disney's Story department in 1942, when the Studio was producing military training films during World War II. Four years later, she resigned from Disney to move east with her husband, a United States Naval officer.

She continued to contribute to Disney as a freelance artist, illustrating the Big Golden Book of Cinderella and Cinderella Puppet Show, published in 1950. The cover of the Cinderella Golden Book was released by Disney Art Classics in 2000, as a color serigraph with gold enhancements, under the Art of Disney Storybooks line.

Creative Director of Disney Publishing Worldwide, Ken Shue, described Retta's work: "Her Cinderella storybook illustrations are very stylized," he observed. "I keep the Cinderella cover framed on an easel outside my office. It's a very detailed, complex composition that informs and inspires our art staff daily. It's show-stopping."

In 1980, Retta worked on The Plague Dogs, a non-Disney animated film directed by Martin Rosen. She also helped animate television commercials produced by Luckey Zamora for such products as Cookie Crisp Cereal.

Retta Scott passed away on August 26, 1990, at her home in Foster City, California.

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Legends Award Category: Animation Year Inducted: 2000 Though Retta Scott's career at Disney was brief, she left an indelible mark as the Studio's first woman animator, receiving screen credit on the 1942 classic Bambi. As Bambi former supervising animator Frank Thomas recalled, "Retta had an astounding ability to draw powerful animals.

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Wikipedia
Retta Scott (23 February 1916 - 26 August 1990) was an American artist. She is notable as the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Early life
Scott was born in Omak, Washington. She graduated from Seattle's Roosevelt High School in 1934. She received an academic scholarship from the Chouinard Art Institute, so she moved to Los Angeles, California. She spent much of her free time sketching wildlife at the nearby Griffith Park zoo. Her ambition was to mold a career in Fine art.
Career as movie animator
As she readied to complete her Institute training, the Institute's director encouraged Scott to apply at Disney Studios. She was hired in 1938 and assigned to the Story Department, where the ambitious Bambi project was being developed. Her stunning sketches caught the eye of Disney himself, so when the film went into production she was assigned to animate scenes of hunting dogs chasing Faline. This was a significant coup for the young woman, since at the 1930s-era Disney studio, women were considered only for routine tasks: "Ink and paint art was a laborious part of the animation process, and was solely the domain of women . ." She worked under the film's supervising director, David D. Hand, and was tutored by Disney animator Eric Larson.

After Bambi, Scott contributed to Disney features Fantasia, Dumbo, and Disney's version of The Wind in the Willows, which was shelved due to World War II and released in 1949 as part of the film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In addition, Albert Becattini's website of animator credits lists her as an animator on the 1942 Donald Duck cartoon releases Donald's Snow Fight and Donald Gets Drafted, along with an unnamed Goofy short (1945). Retta appears on-screen in the Disney live-action studio tour film The Reluctant Dragon, alongside other Disney animators such as Wolfgang Reitherman in the portion of the film where Robert Benchley tours the Disney Studio's life-drawing classroom (where the model that day happens to be an elephant). Retta presents Benchley with a caricature of himself as an elephant. She was laid-off from Disney during a periodic studio downsizing in late 1941, (partially as a result of the infamous Disney animators' strike in the summer of 1941) but was rehired by the Disney Studio in 1942 to work in the Story Department. Retta Scott left Disney in 1946 and moved to the East Coast, where she continued to freelance, illustrating Disney publications such as the Big Golden Book edition of Disney's Cinderella. She remained active as an illustrator for many years and returned to film animation with The Plague Dogs, directed by Martin Rosen, released in 1982. Around that same time in the early 1980s she also worked for the animation studio founded by Bud Luckey, The Luckey-Zamora Moving Picture Co. in the San Francisco Bay area. That studio later became a part of Colossal Pictures, and Luckey later became part of Pixar.

Some writers have occasionally confused Retta Scott with another Disney artist with the first name Retta, Retta Davidson, who worked at Disney from 1939 through 1966.

Scott merited a chapter in The Little Big Book of Disney ("Retta Scott: Beauties and Beasts", pp. 303-319) by Monique Peterson, and also a chapter in Walt's People - Volume VIII ("Retta Scott") by Didier Ghez.

Retta Scott died at her home in Foster City, California on 26 August 1990.

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Wikipedia Retta Scott (23 February 1916 - 26 August 1990) was an American artist. She is notable as the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Early life Scott was born in Omak, Washington. She graduated from Seattle's Roosevelt High School in 1934.

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Trabajo en peliculas como Bambi, Fantasia y Dumbo

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Trabajo en peliculas como Bambi, Fantasia y Dumbo

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se dedicó a ilustrar libros infantiles como The Santa Claus Book y Happy Birthday. También continuó colaborando para Disney a través de trabajos independientes

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Trabajó en los guiones gráficos de Bambi. Sus compañeros se impresionaron con su trabajo ya que asumieron  que solo un artista hombre era capaz de crear dibujos con aquel tipo de intensidad y habilidad técnica

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Nacio en Washinton en 1916 y murio en los noventas

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Retta es la primera mujer que pudo ser animadora en la industria, es de origen americano y trabajo en Disney Studios.