Ben Gluck

Ben Gluck is an American animator, screenwriter, and film director. Gluck was a director and head of story at Disney Animation studios Beginnings Benjamin Gluck was born in Missouri. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Character Animation from the esteemed California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and was awarded a full-tuition merit scholarship from Walt Disney Feature Animation studios. His student short film Man's Best Friend was awarded the Walter Lantz First Prize Award. That film premiered worldwide in heavy rotation on MTV's network, and received many top awards in the United States and International film circuits and toured worldwide and theatrically in Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival. Career Gluck started his professional career at DreamWorks Animation as the studio's very first story trainee, on The Prince of Egypt. After graduating with a BFA in character animation, he was recruited by Walt Disney Feature Animation where he worked for over a decade as a story artist on the Disney films Dinosaur, The Emperor's New Groove, and Home on the Range. He was the first head of story at Disney-Television on the film Bambi 2, and he directed Brother Bear 2, Disney's second sequel to have a higher rating on Rotten Tomatoes than its predecessor.