Glen Keane won an Oscar on Sunday for Dear Basketball, which can be viewed here. The animated short was written and narrated by Kobe Briant with music by John Williams.
What's great about this is that of the five nominated shorts, Dear Basketball is the only one that was animated in a traditional hand-drawn style. Whenever I see Keane's animation, I'm reminded of Disney's Tarzan and this documentary in particular.
Having seen it makes his work easy to spot, particularly in his recent shorts, like 2014's Duet. Aside from Tarzan, he also animated the beast in Beauty and the Beast, Arial in The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin in Aladdin. He left Disney in 2012 to start his own company. In this video, he lectures for a half-hour on his animation career.
Keane grew up in Scottsdale, Pennsylvania. His dad, Bil Keane, created the long-running comic strip, The Family Circus. When Bil passed away in 2011, Glen's brother Jeff took over the strip and has been writing and drawing it since. Glen's son Max was the production designer for Dear Basketball.
Glen Keane's next project is the feature-length Over the Moon, which will appear exclusively on Netflix.
