He was literally working on Princess and the Frog while undergoing chemo. The fact that Disney wasn’t helping cover medical bills and the community needed to fundraise the medical is crazy.

i was at dreamworks roughly 15 years, from prince of egypt through the how to train your dragon movies, animating and storyboarding. pres was a sweet soul.

Spirit in my opinion is the best animated film ever made. It takes a different approach by telling the narrative by music rather than voice, animates horses accurately, is 100% original, and has incredible heart and history intertwined

The knife scene also has foreshortening of the leg, which is incredibly impressive to pull off, with all the perspective and anatomy. It feels so great to learn that animated movies which I appreciated on emotional level as a kid can also be appreciated as works of art as an adult.

I just randomly stumbled across this. Pres and I met and became friends back when we worked on "Beauty and the Beast", though I was in FL and he in LA. I seem to vaguely recall that Disney nearly didn't hire him after his internship, and that Glen stepped in and said that he'd work with Pres directly to get him up to speed. They were sharing an office together when we met (I was one of Glen's key assistants for a time) and I was amazed at how rapidly Pres picked up Glen's style...I could still tell their work apart, but it was damned impressive. He was a sponge; anything he set his mind to learning he seemed to master in record time.

He was also one of the nicest people you could ever wish to meet, truly a gentle and kind soul. I still have a lovely drawing of Pocahontas that he made for me for Christmas one year done in ink and prismcolor on Canson paper. He was always so thoughtful, and put so much care into everything he did. His illness and passing came as such a shock, and felt so profoundly unfair.

Miss you Pres. ❤

3:13  not to mention the dirt being scraped from the ground by the knife

3:50 The US is a horrible place, needing a GoFundMe not to die to cancer

RIP Pres. What an amazing and talented artist.

I wonder if he had to act it out in order to see the movement and limitations of being tied up and using your foot to grab things

I don't know about anyone else but that scene was never a subtle "you probably missed it the first time" kind of scene, the action itself always struck me as so impressive, not only in the way Little Creek was able to grab the knife with his foot (and as a kid, who of us hasn't tried lifting objects with our toes before just to be silly? So that part was already eye catching for its relatability), but how he uses his shoulder to nudge the knife behind his back and into his hands. It was such a slick move, I always remembered it! Maybe I didn't always specifically think about the impressiveness of the animation itself but being an amateur artist who finds anatomy very difficult even when the character is just standing up straight, I am definitely in even more in awe of it now! Very sad to hear the animator passed away.

The fact that Disney is getting rid of such devoted people to their job to cut cost is just miserable...

He was so young when he passed 🥺 Glad his amazing work is still being appreciated to this day

The original foot animation master.
RIP king!

Thanks for bringing Pres to our attention!

Spirit is one of the most under appreciated films in modern animation history.

Man, fuck cancer! RIP.

I will forever remember this guy because THAT IS AMAZING. It’s a shame he’s so underrated because his work is so well known!!

This the kind of stuff you'll never get from AI RIP Pres

1:12 Damn ‼️

He was mentored by one of the best in the industry before him as well. Pretty full circle moment for him. It's very unfortunate that cancer took him from us so soon. May he continue to rest in power!