Broose Johnson

Broose Johnson is a pseudonym for American animator and story artist, Bruce Bryan Johnson (born, October 12, 1963 in San Diego, California). He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1987-2004 in both their Burbank, California and Orlando, Florida, studios. He is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts (BFA 1987)

He is credited [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424666/]for animating several notable characters such as: the Beast in (Beauty and the Beast) with Glen Keane1; the Genie in Aladdin with Eric Goldberg2; and Young Simba in (The Lion King) with Mark Henn3. Later he supervised Ling and Chien-Po in Mulan and Tuke the Moose in Brother Bear for the studio's Florida facility located in Walt Disney World's Disney/MGM Studios Theme Park.

As the head of the Florida studio's story department Johnson was instrumental in the development of the short film, John Henry (with Mark Henn and Tim Hodge4), and provided significant story development for Brother Bear including the creation of the two dimwitted moose brothers, Rutt and Tuke (who he also went on to animate with Tony Stanley5).

More recently, after the closing of the Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida studio, Johnson moved to Cecropia, Inc., a video game development company based in Lexington, Massachusetts. At their Florida facilities, Johnson acted as Head of Story and Director of Animation on a project entitled, The Act. The video game was unique in its simple controls, focus on emotion and character driven game-play and use of high quality, traditional, hand-drawn animation for its graphics.

Johnson is also the creator of the song, A Princess After All, a six and a half minute, personalizable Princess song for christian girls.