Russ Edmonds

Russ Edmonds is an American animator most noted for his character animation at the Walt Disney Company. He worked on several Disney feature films, including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan, and The Princess and the Frog. He studied at the Program in Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Along with his wife, Angela, Edmonds owns and directs the Edmonds Studios, an independent animation production studio in Red Bluff, California.

Edmonds was nominated for the 1996 Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Animation" as the supervising animator of Phoebus in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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