Dick Sebast

Richard Sebast is an American director, story director, animator, and television producer known for working at companies such as Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros., Marvel, MGM, and Universal Animation Studios.

Career

Dick Sebast began his career in 1972 at Walt [Disney Productions] as an animator on Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and as writer/animator on The Rescuers.
He then joined Hanna-Barbera and worked as a story director on Challenge of the Superfriends, The Ri¢hie Ri¢h/Scooby-Doo Show, and The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang.
He then joined Ruby-Spears Productions and did development and story direction on various projects including, Thundarr the Barbarian, The [Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show], Goldie Gold and Action Jack, Dragon's Lair, Mister T, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, and Sectaurs.
His next project was as a storyboard artist, character designer and sequence director on the feature animated film, Rover Dangerfield. He directed nine episodes of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series for which he won an Emmy as the director of the episode, "Robin's Reckoning, Part 1".
Following this, he produced and directed the first season of Sonic [the Hedgehog |Sonic the Hedgehog] for DIC Entertainment. He worked as a storyboard artist on the 1994 TV series, Spider-Man, which he followed up as the producer/director of The Incredible Hulk TV series for New World Animation.
Later he was a storyboard artist on The [Legend of Tarzan |The Legend of Tarzan] series for Walt Disney TV Animation and was a director on the TV series Max Steel for Sony Television and The Mummy for Universal Cartoon Studio.
From 2004 through 2005 he was a director on the Ultimate Avengers II and Doctor Strange direct-to-video features for Marvel Entertainment/Lionsgate. In 2006 he joined Universal Animation Studios as the director of a number of episodes of The Land Before Time: The Series.