🦁 I based my drawing of Lambert on (once again) another Milt Kahl drawing. Kahl didn’t animate on the short, but helped refine the final design of Lambert. As Andreas Deja said in a blog post, “I see a foreshadowing of Tigger in the first sheet. Beautiful squash and stretch in his face. Wonderful gutsy drawings”. Bill Peet was the main storyboard artist of the 1952 Disney short, “Lambert the Sheepish Lion”, which is definitely a cute story, beautifully narrated by Sterling Holloway, who also reprised his role as Mr. Stork from “Dumbo”. Animators Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Judge Whitaker, and Don Lusk were the animators who animated the characters. 🐑🐾

http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2016/03/lambert.html?m=1

Don Lusk – who was the last-surviving Disney artist who worked on Bambi (1942) – died December 30, 2018, at the age of 105.

All of the Disney animators of the Golden Age are gone now.

A more comprehensive tribute to this man's remarkable career can be read here.