Kira Lehtomaki, animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios © Mat Fretschel Since she was three years old, Kira Lehtomaki has known that she wanted to be an animator at Walt Disney DIS Animation Studios. Through hard work, and a bit of a strange path, Lehtomaki made that dream a reality and has worked at the animation studio for a little over 15 years now, working on beloved films like Tangled, Zootopia, and Ralph Breaks the Internet. “I came in at the kind of entry-level, and I’ve been able to grow over my career. Right now I’m an animation supervisor, but I’ve been head of animation on a couple of films. I’ve just had a magical journey,” says Lehtomaki. When it comes to milestones in her career, one that stands out to Lehtomaki was working on Tangled, which was the first film where she was a credited animator. “Before [Tangled] I worked on Bolt as a fix animator, but I was just out of the training program, but on Tangled I got to be a full-fledged animator,” she says. Tangled follows the journey of Rapunzel, a princess who’s stolen at birth because of the magical p… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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