Brian Kesinger
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About
Illustrator and Emmy award winning animation artist. He worked for Walt Disney Studios for over 20 years. On his briankesinger Instagram page, he has 260,000 followers who can see some of his art, animation, and some of his appearances.
Before Fame
He started with Walt Disney Animation when he was only 18-years-old as the youngest animator they had ever hired at that time. In 2000, he did the layout and background design for the animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Trivia
He worked on the Netflix animated action drama series Blue Eye Samurai, for which he won an Emmy in 2024. Some of the other films he has worked on include Wreck-It-Ralph, Tarzan, and Frozen 2, and Prep and Landing.
Family Life
He is from Los Angeles, California. His wife is named Jenny.
Associated With
He created a mashup of Kylo Ren and Darth Vader with the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It also stars Kylo's parents, Princess Leia and Han Solo, who were played by Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in the Star Wars movies.
