 Returning to California, he briefly worked at the Walter Lantz Studio before joining Walt Disney Studios to work on the 1949 full-length animated feature "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad".His career included work on every subsequent Disney animated feature, including character animation on "The Jungle Book" in 1967 and "The Aristocats" in 1970.His final film for Disney was "The Great Mouse Detective" in 1986.