Dick McClane

Dick McClane (born 1971) is an artist, known for working at various MGM animated films from 1997-2021.

Career
McClane first joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation in 1997 where he worked on Darkness Awakening and The Forests Between Mountains. Following MGM Animation's closure in 2000, he continues to work as story artist for other MGM animated films, such as Dusk and Dawn, Upside Mystery, Drilling Pursuit, Upside Mystery 2, and Puma Race. He also wrote and directed The Pink Panther short film License to Pink, before making his feature directorial debut in Dusk and Dawn 2 (2008). He took a leave of absence from MGM Animation Studios to do additional storyboards of Crystal: The Lost Realms (2015) for 20th Century Fox Animation before returning to MGM Animation Studios with Lily & Lester and Sherlock Gnomes (uncredited). On April 16, 2021, McClane confirmed on Twitter that he was leaving MGM Animation Studios after 24 years, with his last works at MGM Animation being Dusk and Dawn: A Zodiacal Night and Hailey. He later began storyboarding Spellbound for Skydance Animation. He finished storyboarding at Skydance Animation in September 2022.