David Pruiksma is an American animator,[1][2] best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company. His work includes Bernard and Miss Bianca (The Rescuers Down Under), Mrs. Potts and Chip (Beauty and the Beast), The Sultan (Aladdin), Victor and Hugo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), and Flit (Pocahontas). He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
After completing work on 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Pruiksma quit Disney and went into semi-retirement, although he did serve as an animation director and storyboard artist for the Cartoon Network series Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.