Education
Trousdale planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years.
Trousdale planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years.
He frequently works with Kirk Wise and Don Hahn. He was hired in 1982 to design storyboards and do other animation. He then went to work designing restaurant menus and t-shirts.
Trousdale was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1985 as an effects animator on The Black Cauldron.
He later directed The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996. In 2001 he directed Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
He moved to DreamWorks Animation in 2003, where he worked on projects such as The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Shrek the Halls and more recently Scared Shrekless. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise have cast certain actors in more than one of their films.