Biography
Hendel Butoy is a Brazilian-born American animator and director. He was born on 15 December 1958 in São Paulo, Brazil, and studied at the California Institute of the Arts before joining Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1979.
He worked as a character animator and supervising animator on several Disney features, including The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Great Mouse Detective (1986) and Oliver & Company (1988). Butoy co-directed The Rescuers Down Under (1990) with Mike Gabriel and directed segments of Fantasia 2000 (2000). He later taught animation at Southern Adventist University.
