Andreas Deja is a Polish-born German-American character animator most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several Disney animated films, including the Disney villains Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Jafar in Aladdin, and Scar in The Lion King, the titular character in Hercules, and Lilo Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch.
At the 35th Annie Awards in 2006
Deja in 2012 at a Masterclass workshop at the Studio Technique in Montreal
Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Gaston is a fictional character in Walt Disney Pictures' animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). Voiced by American actor and singer Richard White, Gaston is an arrogant and ruthless hunter whose unrequited feelings for the intellectual Belle drive him to murder his adversary, the Beast, once he realizes she cares for him instead. Gaston serves as a foil personality to the Beast, who was once as vain as Gaston prior to his transformation.
French filmmaker Jean Cocteau, who created the character Avenant for his 1946 live-action adaptation of the fairy tale; a character that would inspire Disney's Gaston
Gaston was the first villain that supervising animator Andreas Deja animated for Disney. Deja originally struggled to realize executive Jeffrey Katzenberg's vision of a handsome villain.
Luke Evans
Spanish actor Lisardo (Left) as Gaston