Scott Santoro

Scott Santoro was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania in 1953 and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. After college, he moved to Hollywood where he began a long career in feature animation. In the 1980s and 1990s he was an effects animator and was head of 2D (hand drawn) effects on "The Lion King" and "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron." The second half of his career in animation has been as a story artist. His first picture book was published in 1999. Visit his blog at: www.scottsantoro.blogspot.com