As a 32-year veteran of The Walt Disney Company, David Bossert contributed his talents to The Black Cauldron (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), The Lion King (1995), Fantasia 2000 (1999), and the Academy Award©-nominated shorts “Runaway Brain” (1995), “Dali/Disney Destino” (2003), and “Lorenzo” (2004), among many others. Bossert is now an independent producer, creative director, and writer.
As an author, Bossert has published eight books, numerous articles, liner notes, and program notes. His latest book is 3D Disneyland: Like You’ve Never Seen It Before (2020, The Old Mill Press). Learn more at davidbossert.com.
Bossert is a member of the CalArts Board of Trustees, Visual Effects Society (VES), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) in Pittsburgh. He has presented and lectured at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Salvador Dali Museum, School of Visual Arts, NYU Film School, Bowers Museum, Newport Beach Film Festival, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí (Figueres, Spain), Oscar Pomilio- Blumm Forum (Pescara, Italy), and at other venues and festivals. Bossert is considered an authority on Disney animation art and history.
He co-authored Disney Animated, which was named iPad App of 2013 by Apple, and in 2014 won a prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award. In 2018, Bossert was awarded a US patent for his invention Parallax Based Monoscopic Rendering and in 2020, he received an additional US patent for Varying Display Content Based on Viewpoint.
