Biography
Tony Cipriano was born on
October 9, 1963 in Brooklyn, NY.
He spent his childhood in
Brooklyn as well. Cipriano
received a Bachelor of Fine
Arts at the School of Visual
Arts in New York.
Cipriano has a Disney history:
he has worked as an
inbetween-artist on Beauty and
the Beast (Gaston) and
Pocahontas. But he has also
worked for Disney as a sculptor
on the Disney Classics Mulan and
Brother Bear. He had his own
designing and sculpting studio (Cipriano
Studios) in the time that he
wasn’t working for Disney (in
1998). Later he became a
freelance sculptor.
Cipriano has made Tod & Copper
from The Fox and the Hound:
these are the first figurines
that were ever produced from The
Fox and the Hound by the Walt
Disney Classics Collection.
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