Mark Walton
Storyboard art is the half of an animated film nobody buys a ticket for: the drawings that fix timing, staging and the shape of a joke long before anything is animated. That is Mark Walton's actual job. He has done it at Walt Disney Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Blue Sky Studios and Warner Animation Group, and as of 2023 he does it at Illumination.
Audiences know him for something else entirely. In Bolt he voices Rhino the hamster, a part that landed hard enough to come back the following year in a short of its own, Super Rhino. The five screen credits gathered here all follow one pattern, and it is the pattern of a story artist who happened to be in the room: Goosey Loosey in Chicken Little, two characters at once in Home on the Range, an official in Turbo. Nothing here is a leading man's filmography, and it was never meant to be. It is a record of somebody whose main contribution to these films is not on the cast list.
Movies (5)
Where to start with Mark Walton
Bolt is the obvious place to begin and the only one where the voice does real work. Rhino is delivered with the confidence of a person who already knows how the gag will be drawn, which is a specific advantage a storyboard artist has over a hired actor. Go straight from there to Super Rhino, the short that exists because the character connected.
The rest is smaller by design. Chicken Little and Home on the Range are Disney features from the studio's least fashionable stretch, and his parts in them are comic texture rather than performances to study. Turbo amounts to one official. Treat those three as a tour of the animation houses he has passed through rather than as a body of acting work.