Willie Ito is an American animator. He worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios in the 1950s, moved to Warner Brothers Productions and Hanna-Barbera Productions as a character designer, and later returned to Disney. Ito was with Hanna-Barbera for the next fourteen years, where he worked on layouts and backgrounds for such series as The Flintstones and The Yogi Bear Show, and designed characters like the title characters from Hong Kong Phooey and Goober and the Ghost Chasers. Ito continues to draw and speak to audiences about his career at the leading animation studios.