Jane Baer, Animator on ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ‘The Rescuers’ and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit,’ Dies at 91

Jane Baer, whose half-century in animation including work on such films as Sleeping Beauty, The Rescuers and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died. She was 91.

Baer died Monday in her sleep at her home in Van Nuys, a spokesperson for Walt Disney Animation announced.

In 1984, she and second husband Dale Baer launched Baer Animation, and she supervised the Toontown sequences and the character Benny the Cab for the landmark Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

Under her supervision, Baer Animation expanded to become one of the few, fully self-contained and independent animation facilities in the U.S., with departments for every facet of animation production, including digital ink and paint, compositing, recording and effects. She oversaw a staff ranging from 50 to 100-plus artists and personnel, based on the production.

Baer also expanded with Baer Animation Camera Services, which shot major portions of Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Prince and the Pauper…