Burny Mattinson

Burny Mattinson is an artist and storyman at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Mattinson started at Disney working in the studio mail room in 1953. After a while, he was eventually promoted to be an animator in the animation department in the 1970s before becoming a story artist. During the 1980s, he directed and produced Mickey Mouse's comeback featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol and the full-length feature The Great Mouse Detective. Mattinson continued to work as a story an on features from the Disney Renaissance, such as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. His latest work was being head story artist for Winnie the Pooh.

In 2013, Mattinson celebrated 60 years with the Disney studio, and was honored with a surprise honoring by John Lasseter at the animation presentation at that year's D23 Expo. Recently, he has been trying to pitch a traditionally-animated feature starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy.