In 1951 he joined Walt Disney Productions as an assistant background painter and received credit for the experimental background painting in the Goofy short, "For Whom the Bulls Toil". In 1953 he created the look of "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", a short animated film which won an Academy Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award. He also worked on "Peter Pan", "Working for Peanuts", "Pigs is Pigs", "Paul Bunyan", and "Lady and the Tramp". He was responsible for the styling, background and colors for the highly acclaimed "Sleeping Beauty".