September 2015
Beginner
394 pages
7h 54m
English
THE AUTHOR
Andreas Deja first applied for a job as a Disney animator at the age of ten. Born in Poland and raised in Germany, he remembers writing to the studio immediately after seeing The Jungle Book. “I’d never seen a Disney feature before,” he recalls. “It was one of those key experiences because I just couldn’t believe what I’d seen. All those drawings moving, thinking, and acting so real.”

Photo by Roger Viloria
The studio wrote back to Deja explaining that there were no openings but they were always on the lookout for new talent. This offered him the encouragement he needed and the motivation to work hard towards that goal. At the age of ...
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