One half of America's leading contemporary animation team with John Musker. Clements began his career as an animator for Hanna-Barbera. After a few months there, he was accepted into Disney's Talent Development Program, an animator training ground and workshop. Following the workshop he served a two year apprenticeship with famed animator Frank Thomas, supervising animator on such Disney films as "Peter Pan" (1953), "Lady and the Tramp" (1955) and "The Aristocats" (1970).Clements made his feature debut as a character animator on "The Rescuers" (1977) and "Pete's Dragon" (1977). In 1981 he
