Dan Read

Daniel Read worked for more than twenty years in the United States and Italy as a painter and teacher of painting and figure drawing before joining Disney's Paris studio as a background painter on the animated short "Runaway Brain." He earned the Master's Degree from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied under Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown, and also attended the University of California, Davis, where he studied under Wayne Thiebaud. His fine art has been exhibited in the United States, Scotland and Italy, and is in numerous private collections in the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland and Italy.

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  The Princess and the Frog

  Background Designer

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  Bolt

  Visual Development

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  Chicken Little

  Visual Development

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  Treasure Planet

  Painter

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  Home on the Range

  Background Designer

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  Winnie the Pooh

  In Memory Of

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  The Royal Treatment

  Executive Producer

• 2022The Royal TreatmentExecutive Producer
• 2011Winnie the PoohIn Memory Of
• 2009The Princess and the FrogBackground Designer
• 2008BoltVisual Development
• 2005Chicken LittleVisual Development
• 2004Home on the RangeBackground Designer
• 2002Treasure PlanetPainter