Ken Kinoshita- Ex-Disney Artist at the Inland Empire!

Ken began his art training in the early 1980’s attending Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. Later he attended California State College Fullerton in Fullerton, California. While attending Mt. San Antonio College, Ken attended Classes offered through the Screen Cartoonist Union. During this time Ken also began taking animation classes Taught by renowned animation artist Cornelius Cole. After graduating from California State Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Ken worked as a freelance illustrator. During this time Ken applied and received

A job with DIC Enterprises, which would lead to work with, Saban, Film Roman, Klasky-Csupo Studios, Hanna-Barbara Studios, Warner Brothers Television Studios, Disney Feature Animation Studios, DreamWorks SKG Studios, Disney Television Studios, Disney Studios Tokyo, Japan, SOB Studios, Auckland New Zealand and many commercial Animation studios such as, Playhouse Pictures,West Indigo, Duck Soup, Bagdasarian Studios, Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, Mike Joens Productions, Film Fair,O pictures, and many more.

During Ken’s time at Disney Feature Animation, Ken worked on: The Prince And The Pauper, Beauty And The Beast, Lion King, Pocahontas, and The Hunchback Of Norte Dame.

In 2000, Ken began teaching various classes at California State College Fullerton, and Mount San Antonio College. In 2006, he started his own company with a few colleagues from Disney and continues to do freelance character design. In 2007 he joined the faculty at Art Institute Inland Empire teaching most of the traditional animation classes where he continues to teach today.