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Cy Young (animator)

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For the Major League Baseball and Hall of Fame pitcher, see Cy Young.
For the Major League Baseball award, see Cy Young Award.


Cy (also known as Sy) Young (died 1964) was a Chinese American special effects animator, best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company.

Young's first work was as lead animator on the 1931 short "Mendelssohn's Spring Song", a project completed while he was a student in New York City. Disney was so impressed with his work that he hired him to be head of the new special effects animation department. The department's first major project was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Young also provided the delicate visual design of the woods and meadows in Bambi. He also worked on Fantasia and Dumbo.

Young left the studio after the 1941 Disney animators' strike and return to New York, where he worked on various animation projects. He committed suicide in 1964.

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