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List Of Animators
This is a list of notable animators: __NOTOC__ A * Andrew Adamson * Takami Akai * Kazuki Akane * Alexandre Alexeieff * Roger Allers * Pete Alvarado * Robert Alvarez * Tetsurō Amino * Ken Anderson * Wes Anderson * Mark Andrews * Masashi Ando * Hideaki Anno * Danny Antonucci * Shingo Araki * Tetsurō Araki * Wes Archer * Shubhavi Arya * Morio Asaka * Kia Asamiya * Kelly Asbury * Toyoo Ashida * Xavier Atencio * Maxwell Atoms * Virginie Augustin * Tex Avery * Abdelrahim Ahmed B * Arthur Babbit * Frédéric Back * Ralph Bakshi * Kyle Balda * Joseph Barbera * Alan Barillaro * Cordell Barker * Phyllis Barnhart * Craig Bartlett * Berthold Bartosch * Niko Barun * Jules Bass * Joy Batchelor * Signe Baumane * James Baxter * Alan Becker * Ed Benedict * Drew Berry * Tom Bertino * Brad Bird * Preston Blair * Don Bluth * Raphael Bob-Waksberg * Ben Bocquelet * Katsushi Boda * Patrick Bokanowski * David Bolinsky * Walerian Borowczyk * Bob Boyle * Konstantin Bronzit * Brun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Adamson
Andrew Ralph Adamson (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, where he directed the Academy Award-winning animated films '' Shrek'' and '' Shrek 2''. He was director, executive producer, and scriptwriter for the 2005 production of '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''. He also worked on the movies ''Batman Forever'' and '' Batman & Robin'' as a visual effects supervisor. He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to film, in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours. Personal life Adamson's parents were a homemaker and a computer engineer. Born in New Zealand, Adamson moved to Papua New Guinea with his parents aged eleven, and he returned to Auckland aged eighteen. When 24, he moved to San Francisco, and divided time between there and Los Angeles. Since making the ''Narnia'' films, he has settled back in New Zealand. Adamson has two children. Career Ada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shubhavi Arya
Shubhavi Arya is an Indian animator and film director. She is most noted for creating cutout stop-motion animated film Adventures of Malia at a young age of 16 years. In 2015, she directed and animated the Adventures of Malia which got nominated for 11 international film awards, winning 3 of them including the Honorary Mention Foreign Film Award at the ColorTape International Film Festival, Australia and Best Under 18 Filmmaker at the Global Independent Film Awards, United States. Early life and background Shubhavi Arya was born in New Delhi, India. Shubhavi's father, Jaibir Singh Arya, is an Indian Administrative Service Officer and her mother, Minakshi Arya, is a veterinary surgeon, both of whom work in the Government of India. Her mother, Minakshi Arya, also holds an MBA and M.S. in Software Engineering from North Dakota State University. She has one younger brother, Saatvik Arya. Education Shubhavi Arya is currently studying for dual bachelor of science degrees in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Balda
Kyle Balda (born March 9, 1971) is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing the Illumination films ''The Lorax'' (2012), with Chris Renaud; '' Minions'' (2015), with Pierre Coffin; and '' Minions: The Rise of Gru'' (2022), with Brad Ableson and Jonathan del Val. He previously worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic before moving to Pixar where he worked on three of their films. Early life Balda was born in Tucson, Arizona, to a Maltese mother. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1990s and dropped out after two years for a job he was offered. Career During his time at CalArts, Balda was hired by LucasArts as an intern to create the animated opening credit sequence for the graphic adventure game ''Day of the Tentacle''. He started his career as an animator by working at Industrial Light & Magic, in films including ''The Mask'' as graphics animator, '' Jumanji'' as animation supervisor, and '' Mars Attacks! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American animator and filmmaker. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer, and animator. Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Bakshi was eventually promoted to animator, and then director. He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi made his debut feature film, ''Fritz the Cat'', released in 1972. It was based on the comic strip by Robert Crumb and was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and is the most successful independent animated feature of all time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Back
Frédéric Back (April 8, 1924 – December 24, 2013) was a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films.John L. Kennedy and Eugene Walz"Frédéric Back". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 4, 2007. During a long career with Radio-Canada, the French-language service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning two, for his 1981 film ''Crac'' and the 1987 film ''The Man Who Planted Trees''. Biography Born in Saarbrücken, The Territory of the Saar Basin, and raised in Strasbourg, Back's family moved to Paris at the start of the Second World War. Back studied art, first at the École Estienne and then at École régionale des beaux-arts de Rennes. Back's first exhibition took place at the Salon de la Marine in 1946. Back emigrated to Canada in 1948, at the invitation of a pen pal, Ghylaine Paquin, who would become Back's wife the following year. Prior to joining the CBC, he taught at the École des beaux-arts. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Babbit
Arthur Harold Babitsky (October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He received over 80 awards as an animation director and animator, and also developed the character of Goofy. Babbitt worked as an animator or animation director on films such as ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Pinocchio'', ''Fantasia'' and ''Dumbo'', among others. Outside of Disney, he also animated ''The Wise Quacking Duck'' for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Early life Babbitt was born to a Jewish family in the Little Bohemia section of Omaha, Nebraska, but moved to Sioux City, Iowa after he finished kindergarten. When his hard-working father had an accident on duty and became paralyzed as a result, Art decided to move to New York to take on the role of breadwinner. Career Art Babbitt began his career in New York City working for Paul Terry's Terrytoons Studio. But in the early 1930s he moved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdel Rahim Ahmed
Abdel Rahim Ahmed ( ar, عبدالرحـيم أحمد) is an Egyptian director and author, born in Egypt, graduated from the 6 October University, Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Photography, Film and Television, and then studied film directing at the Arab School of Film and Television in Egypt under Dr Mona Al-Sabban. Published works Short films See: A silent animated Short film, that Abdel Rahim worked as an author, director, art director and animation artist. The film was produced by Abdel Rahim Ahmed in 2020. A new dream movie: a short fictional film that Abdul Rahim worked as an author, director, and the film for the Arab Film School graduation project. Series * The series "Heroes of the Cartoon": The work includes a group of Saudi and Egyptian artists, He is worked as an author, screenwriter, director and production director. The series is produced by Saudi Arabia. * "Future Child" series: An Egyptian series that discusses several topics in the childhood p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, The Wolf, Red Hot Riding Hood, and George and Junior. He gained influence for his technical innovation, directorial style and brand of humor. Avery's attitude toward animation was opposite that of Walt Disney and other conventional family cartoons at the time. Avery's cartoons were known for their sarcastic, ironic, absurdist, irreverent, and sometimes sexual tone in nature. Avery's cartoon focused on sight gags, surrealist humor, rapid pacing, racial stereotypes, and violent humor, with wacky c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginie Augustin
Virginie Augustin (March 11, 1973, Chatou) is a French comics book artist. She has also worked on animated features with Walt Disney Animation Studios and France 3. Biography After studying at Gobelins, Augustin worked with Walt Disney Animation Studios on the animated features ''Tarzan'' (1999) and ''Hercules'' (1997). Her career in animation also led her to work on ''W.I.T.C.H.'' (2001), ''Dragon Hunters'' (2006), and ''Code Lyoko'' (2003) for France 3, and on the animated film ''Corto Maltese, la cour secrète des arcanes'' (2002). Shortly after ''Corto Maltese'', in 2003, she joined the comic strip world and drew the four volumes of the ''bande dessinée'' heroic fantasy series ' with scriptwriter . Augustin then participated in several collectives (, , , , and ). She also produced a sketchbook for Comix buro, the collection of books directed by . Then she entered the collection of ', where she drew ''Voyage aux Ombres,'', a one-shot scripted by Christophe Arleston and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxwell Atoms
Adam Maxwell Burton, known professionally as Maxwell Atoms, is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is the creator of the Cartoon Network series '' Grim & Evil'' and its subsequent spin-offs, ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' and ''Evil Con Carne''. Career Atoms is the creator of Cartoon Network's animated television series ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'', ''Evil Con Carne'', and has developed a ''Billy & Mandy'' spin-off Halloween special called '' Underfist: Halloween Bash''. Atoms attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Before he started working on his own series, Atoms was an intern at Film Roman, a freelance artist at Warner Bros., had a brief stint at WildBrain, and had also worked on ''The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat''. Atoms got a job at Hanna-Barbera and as a story and storyboard artist on ''Cow and Chicken'' and ''I Am Weasel''. Atoms also performed the voice of Jeff the Spider and Piff on ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Atencio
Francis Xavier Atencio, also known as X Atencio (September 4, 1919 – September 10, 2017) was an animator and Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company. He is perhaps best known for writing the scripts and song lyrics of the Disney theme park attractions, Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion. Biography Atencio was born in Walsenburg, Colorado in 1919. He was a Disney artist from 1938 to 1965, when he became an Imagineer to help design the Disneyland Railroad's Primeval World diorama segment. He then contributed to various Disney attractions. He wrote the scripts for Adventure Thru Inner Space and Pirates of the Caribbean. For the latter, he also penned the lyrics of " Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" and provided the voices of various characters, including the talking skull that appears before the waterfall that carries riders into the main body of the attraction and the drunken pirate on the bridge who heckles the auctioneer He also wrote the script for the Haunted Mans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyoo Ashida
was an anime character designer, animation director and director. He was most notable for directing the original ''Vampire Hunter D'' anime, as well as for providing character designs for '' Vifam'', ''Mashin Hero Wataru'', '' Minky Momo'' and '' F-Zero GP Legend''. He is the founder of the anime production studio, Studio Live and as well as the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) along with Satoshi Kon. His designs are similar to those of Akira Toriyama. Toyoo got his style while working on Dr. Slump. He was also heavily inspired by Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, the Fleischer Brothers, Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis. Notable works as character design and animator * ''Uchū Shōnen Soran'' (1965) (in-between animation) * ''Space Boy Soran'' (1965) (animation) * ''Bōken Gabotenjima'' (1967) (animation) * ''Moomin'' (1969) (animation director) * ''Cleopatra'' (1970) (animation) * ''New Moomin'' (1972) (animation director) * ''Wansa-kun'' (1973) (art director) * ''Hei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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