Tom Sito

Tom Sito
Sito at a September 16, 2013 lecture on the history of computer animation at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan.
Born	(1956-05-19) May 19, 1956 (age 60) Brooklyn, New York
Occupation	Animator, writer, historian, educator

Tom Sito, born May 19, 1956, is a well-known American animator, animation historian and teacher. Sito has been called a "key figure in the Disney Renaissance", and one of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation.

Tom Sito was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Sito first began studying animation while attending cartooning classes at the High School of Art and Design. He continued his animation studies at The School of Visual Arts with Howard Beckerman, cartooning under Harvey Kurtzman, Gil Miret, Howard Beckerman and Robert Beverly Hale. Sito graduated from SVA in 1977 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts. He met his wife, Pat, at SVA. Additionally, Sito studied life drawing at The Art Students League of New York under Robert Beverly Hale.

Sito's cartooning career began with him working on cartoons for Dixie Cups, as well as gag writing for Playboy magazine's comic series, Little Annie Fanny, under his instructor, Harvey Kurtzman. Sito assisted retired Disney animator Shamus Culhane on one of his final projects, a 1977 education short entitled Protection in the Nuclear Age. Sito's first big break came in 1976 when he was hired by legendary animation director Richard Williams to work on his film Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure. There he met and worked with animation luminaries like Eric Goldberg, Art Babbitt and John Canemaker. After several years doing commercial animation work in New York and Toronto, Sito relocated to Los Angeles and worked on TV projects like Super Friends for Hanna-Barbera (1978), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1983–1985).