Tony Bancroft

Program Director for Lipscomb University's Animation Degree Program

With over 30 years in the animation industry, Tony Bancroft has been creatively involved in almost every position making an animated film, video, commercial, or short film. During his 12-year career with Disney Studios, Bancroft helped create and animate Pumbaa, the lovable warthog in The Lion King; Kronk, the dim-witted sidekick in The Emperor’s New Groove; Cogsworth the nervous clock from Beauty and the Beast; and Iago the pestering parrot in Aladdin. He was the animation supervisor of Sony’s Stuart Little 2, for which he received the Visual Effects Society’s top award for character animation. Currently Tony prepares and enriches the next generation of animators and storytellers as the Program Director for Lipscomb University’s Animation degree program.