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Russell H. "Russ" Edmonds (born October 11, 1961) is an American Disney animator who has worked as a character animator, an animator, a supervising animator, a lead animator and a final line animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He worked on several Disney feature films, including Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Home on the Range, The Princess and the Frog, and Winnie the Pooh. He studied at the Program in Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Along with his wife, Angela, Edmonds owns and directs the Edmonds Studios, an independent animation production studio in Red Bluff, California.
Earlier career opportunities include development of isometric for Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant. (1st hand)
| Year | Title | Credits | Characters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Snookles (Short) | Special Thanks | |
| Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (Short) | "Aided and Abetted By" | ||
| 1987 | A Story (Short) | Thanks | |
| Amazing Stories (TV Series) | Principal Animator - 1 Episode | ||
| 1988 | Somewhere in the Arctic (Short) | Thanks | |
| Oliver & Company | Character Animator | ||
| 1989 | The Little Mermaid | Character Animator | |
| 1990 | The Rescuers Down Under | Supervising Animator | |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Supervising Animator | Phillipe |
| 1992 | Aladdin | Animator | Aladdin |
| 1993 | The Simpsons (TV Series) | Animator/Character Designer - 1 Episode | |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Supervising Animator | Sarabi |
| 1996 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Supervising Animator | Phoebus |
| Quack Pack (TV Series) | Supervising Animator - 1 Episode | ||
| 1999 | Tarzan | Supervising Animator | Kala |
| 2001 | Atlantis: The Lost Empire | Supervising Animator | Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini |
| 2004 | Home on the Range | Supervising Animator | Rico, The Willie Brothers and Horses |
| 2005 | Kronk's New Groove (Video) | Walk Cycle Animator | |
| 2006 | Curious George | Animator: Project Firefly | |
| 2007 | Slacker Cats (TV Series) | Animator - 1 Episode | |
| 2008 | The Mr. Men Show (TV Series) | Animator - 1 Episode | |
| 2009 | Wild About Safety: Timon and Pumbaa Safety Smart Goes Green! (Video short) | Animator | |
| Wild About Safety: Timon and Pumbaa Safety Smart in the Water! (Video short) | Animator | ||
| The Princess and the Frog | Animator / Lead Animator | Prince Naveen, Marcel and Stella | |
| 2010 | The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) | Animator - Segment "What the Oscars would mean to me": "The Princess and the Frog" | Prince Naveen |
| 2011 | Winnie the Pooh | Animator | |
| Bubble Guppies | Storyboard Artist - 1 Episode | ||
| 2012 | Paperman (Short) | Final Line Animator | |
| 2013 | Get a Horse! (Short) | Animator | |
| 2015 | Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja (TV Series) | Storyboard Artist - 4 Episodes | |
| 2019 | Wonder Park | Story Artist |
Edmonds was nominated for the 1996 Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Animation" as the supervising animator of Phoebus in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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