Ellen Woodbury is a stone sculptor, former Disney directing animator and character animator who worked on the following films at Walt Disney Animation Studios. She attended the Experimental Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts under the mentorship of Jules Engel. She moved to Loveland, Colorado, in 2005 to become a full-time sculptor. She taught Character Animation at the Art Institute of Colorado from 2010 to 2014, and ran a character animation workshop along with her class each week.