T. Hee

American animator director and teacher He taught character design and caricature Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 193536 as a character designer He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in The Coo Coo Nut Grove 1936 and The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos 1937 A 1936 Christmas card that he drew featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators was used to design the gremlins in the 1944 animated short Russian Rhapsody Hee joined The Walt Disney Company around 1937 He is most recognized for directing the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia He left after thestrike but returned to work there twice from 1940 to 1946 and again from 1958 to 1961 Hee also worked for United Productions of America 1951 to 1958 and Terrytoons 1961 to 1963 Hee was one of the cofounders along with Jack Hannah of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts He later served as chairman of the Film Arts Department Hee provided the illustrations used during the opening credits of The Life of Riley television show of the 1950s Wikipedia