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Shane Acker Shane Richard Acker (born 1971) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter and animation teacher known for directing '' 9'', which is based on his 2005 Academy Award-nominated short film of the same title. He is a graduate of the Unive ...
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Andrew Adamson Andrew Ralph Adamson (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer, screenwriter and animator. He is best known for directing the DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks animated film ''Shrek'' (2001), which is based on the Shrek!, ...
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Takami Akai is an illustrator, game creator, character designer and animator. Career history Akai attended Osaka University of Arts majoring in fine art . While studying there, Akai created the character designs for the Nihon SF Taikai, Daicon III openin ...
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Kazuki Akane is a Japanese animation director. Until the early 2000s, he was a staff member of the anime studio Sunrise, where he collaborated with Shoji Kawamori to direct his most famous work, '' The Vision of Escaflowne''. Since that time, he worked ext ...
* Alexandre Alexeieff *
Roger Allers Roger Allers (born June 29, 1949) is an American film director, screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist, and playwright. He is best known for co-directing Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney's ''The Lion King'' (1994), the highest-grossing t ...
* Pete Alvarado * Robert Alvarez *
Tetsurō Amino is a Japanese anime director, born on October 10, 1955, in Chiba Prefecture. In 1988, he started using his name in katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases ...
* Ken Anderson *
Wes Anderson Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker. Wes Anderson filmography, His films are known for themes of grief, loss of innocence, and dysfunctional families. Due to his films' eccentricity, distinctive visual and narrative ...
* Bryan Andrews * Mark Andrews * Masashi Ando *
Hideaki Anno is a Anime, Japanese animator, filmmaker, Film producer, producer, and voice actor. His most celebrated creation, the Neon Genesis Evangelion (franchise), ''Evangelion'' franchise, has had a significant influence on the anime television industr ...
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Danny Antonucci Daniel Edward Antonucci (, ; born February 27, 1957) is a Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer. He created the Cartoon Network animated comedy series '' Ed, Edd n Eddy'' as well as '' Lupo the Butcher'' and ''The Brothers Grunt'' fo ...
* Ruben A. Aquino * Shingo Araki * Tetsurō Araki *
Wes Archer Wesley Meyer Archer (born ) is an American animation director. He is best known for directing on series such as ''The Simpsons'', ''King of the Hill'' and ''Rick and Morty'', and is a three-time Emmy Award winner. Early life and education We ...
* Shubhavi Arya * Morio Asaka *
Kia Asamiya , best known by the pen name , is a Japanese manga artist whose work spans multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences. Biography Before becoming a manga artist, Asamiya graduated from the Tokyo Designer School, then worked as a character de ...
* Kelly Asbury * Toyoo Ashida * Xavier Atencio * Maxwell Atoms * Virginie Augustin *
Tex Avery Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (; February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, animation director, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of America ...
* Abdelrahim Ahmed


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* Arthur Babbit * Frédéric Back * Mark Baker *
Ralph Bakshi Ralph Bakshi (; born October 29, 1938) is a Mandatory Palestine-born American retired animator and filmmaker, known for his fantastical animated films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent anim ...
* Kyle Balda *
Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Barbera ( ; ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known as the co-founder of the animation studio Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian Americans, Italian immigrants in New York City, Bar ...
* Alan Barillaro * Cordell Barker * Phyllis Barnhart * Jiří Barta * Craig Bartlett * Berthold Bartosch * Niko Barun *
Jules Bass Julius Caesar Bass (; September 16, 1935 – October 25, 2022) was an American director, producer, lyricist, composer and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded the film production company Videocraft ...
* Joy Batchelor * Signe Baumane * James Baxter * Alan Becker * Ed Benedict * Drew Berry * Tom Bertino *
Brad Bird Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both animation and Live action, live-action. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He ...
* Preston Blair *
Don Bluth Donald Virgil Bluth ( ; born September 13, 1937) is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author. He came to prominence working for Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions before creating his own film studio in ...
* Raphael Bob-Waksberg * Ben Bocquelet * Katsushi Boda *
Patrick Bokanowski Patrick Bokanowski (born 23 June 1943 in film, 1943 in Algiers, French Algeria) is a French people, French filmmaker who makes experimental film, experimental and animation, animated films. Career The film ''The Angel (1982 film), The Angel'' (1 ...
* David Bolinsky *
Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was a Polish film director described by film critics as a "genius who also happened to be a pornographer". He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk settled in Paris in 1959. A ...
* Bob Boyle * Konstantin Bronzit *
Bruno Bozzetto Bruno Bozzetto (born 3 March 1938) is an Italian cartoon animator and film director, creator of many short pieces, mainly of a Politics, political or Satire, satirical nature. He created his first animated short "Tapum! the weapons' story" in 19 ...
* Matt Braly * Peter Browngardt * David Bowers * Joe Brumm *
Chris Buck Christopher James Buck (born February 24, 1958) is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter known for co-directing '' Tarzan'' (1999), '' Surf's Up'' (2007) (which was nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Feature), '' F ...
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Henry Burden Henry Burden (April 22, 1791 – January 19, 1871) was an engineer and businessman who built an industrial complex in Troy, New York called the Burden Iron Works. Burden's horseshoe machine, invented in 1835, was capable of making 60 horseshoes ...
* Pete Burness * Bill Burnett *
Tim Burton Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and producer. Known for popularizing Goth subculture, Goth culture in the American film industry, Burton is famous for his Gothic film, gothic horror and dark fantasy films. ...


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* Bob Camp *
Ivo Caprino Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norway, Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films. His most noted film, ''Flåklypa Grand Prix'' (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix), was made in 1975. Early life Cap ...
* Tim Cahill * Julie McNally Cahill * Wallace Carlson *
Enrico Casarosa Enrico Casarosa (born 20 November 1971) is an Italian director, screenwriter and storyboard artist. Best known for his work at Pixar, he has directed the short film ''La Luna (2011 film), La Luna'' (2011) and the feature film ''Luca (2021 film), ...
* Osvaldo Cavandoli * Yuriko Chiba * Koichi Chigira *
Sylvain Chomet Sylvain Chomet (; born 10 November 1963) is a French comic writer, animator and film director. Early career Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), near Paris, he studied art at high school until he graduated in 1982. Chomet m ...
* Peter Chung * Daniel Chong *
Bob Clampett Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, film director, director, film producer, producer and puppeteer best known for his work on the ''Looney Tunes'' animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the te ...
* Les Clark *
Ron Clements Ronald Francis Clements (born April 25, 1953) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director John Musker and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animated films ...
* Jackie Cockle *
Pierre Coffin Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born 16 March 1967) is a French animator, director, producer, writer, and voice actor. He is best known for co-directing the first four installments in the Despicable Me, ''Despicable Me'' franchise and being the prima ...
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Émile Cohl Émile Eugène Jean Louis Cohl (; né Courtet; 4 January 1857 – 20 January 1938) was a French caricaturist of the Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon". Biography Émile's father, Elie, ...
* Felix Colgrave * Vince Collins * Richard Condie * Sandro Corsaro * Brian Cosgrove *
Quirino Cristiani Quirino Cristiani (2 July 1896 – 2 August 1984) was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the ...
* Sally Cruikshank * Gabor Csupo *
Shamus Culhane James H. "Shamus" Culhane (November 12, 1908 – February 2, 1996) was an American animator, film director, and film producer. He is best known for his work in the Golden age of American animation. Career Shamus Culhane worked for a number of ...
* Michael Cusack


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* Enzo D'Alò *
Eric Darnell Eric Darnell (born August 21, 1961) is an American animator, storyboard artist, film director, director, screenwriter, songwriter and occasional voice acting, voice actor best known for co-directing ''Antz'' with Tim Johnson (film director), Tim ...
* Jim Danforth * Arthur Davis * John A. Davis * Marc Davis *
Segundo de Chomón Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz (also Chomont or Chaumont ; 17 October 1871 – 2 May 1929) was a pioneering Spanish film director, cinematographer and screenwriter. He produced many short films in France while working for Pathé, Pat ...
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Dean DeBlois Dean Allan DeBlois ( ; born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker and writer. He is best known for co-writing and directing the Oscar-nominated animated feature films '' Lilo & Stitch'' (2002) for Walt Disney Animation Studios (with Chris Sande ...
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Gene Deitch Eugene Merril Deitch (August 8, 1924 – April 16, 2020) was an American illustrator, animator, comics artist, and film director who was based in Prague from the 1960s until his death in 2020. Deitch was known for creating animated cartoons ...
* Phil DeLara *
Kirk DeMicco Kirk DeMicco (born May 15, 1969) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work on animated films, such as writing and directing ''Space Chimps'' (2008), ''The Croods'' (2013), ''Vivo (film), Vivo'' (2021), and ''Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kr ...
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Andreas Deja Andreas Deja (born 1 April 1957) is a Polish-born German-American character animator most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several Disney animated films, in ...
* Osamu Dezaki * Tetsu Dezaki * John R. Dilworth * Mark Dindal * Michael Dante DiMartino *
Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...
* Tsukasa Dokite * Domics * Paul Driessen * Derek Drymon * Michaël Dudok de Wit *
Piotr Dumała Piotr Dumała (born 9 July 1956 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and animator. He is noted for his animation technique. While training to be a sculptor, he discovered that scratching images into painted plaster could be a beautiful way to cr ...
* Jack Dunham


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* Ralph Eggleston * Izzy Ellis *
Ed Emshwiller Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (February 16, 1925 – July 27, 1990) was an American people, American visual artist notable for his science fiction illustrations and his pioneering experimental films. He usually signed his illustrations as Emsh but ...
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Jules Engel Jules Engel (; March 11, 1909 – September 6, 2003) was an American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher of Hungarian origin. He was the founding director of the experimental anima ...


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Lauren Faust Lauren J. Faust (born July 25, 1974) is an American animator, writer, director, and producer. She is known for developing the animated series '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' and '' DC Super Hero Girls''. Faust has collaborated with her ...
* David Feiss *
Sam Fell Samuel Jason Fell (born 22 November 1965) is a British animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor. Sam started his career as director on the short film ''The Big Cheese'' for 3 Peach Animation. He then joined Aardman Animations and worked ...
* Paul Fierlinger * Don Figlozzi * David Firth * David Fine *
Oskar Fischinger Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (June 22, 1900 – January 31, 1967) was a German-American abstract animation, abstract animator, filmmaker, and painting, painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of co ...
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Dave Fleischer Dave Fleischer (; July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American film director and producer who co-owned Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. He was a native of New York City. Biography Early life and career Fleisch ...
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Max Fleischer Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer ; July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an American animator and studio owner. Born in Kraków, in Austrian Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became a pioneer in the development ...
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Friz Freleng Isadore "Friz" Freleng (; August 21, 1905May 26, 1995), credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, Film director, director, Film producer, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons ...
* Lillian Friedman *
Kazuhiro Furuhashi is a Japanese anime director and supervisor. He is amongst anime's most foremost directors, having directed the '' Rurouni Kenshin'' series (including the original television series, and its subsequent original video animation iterations), '' Zi ...
* Akira Furuya


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* Todd John Galda * Manuel García Ferré * Paul Germain * Ted Geisel *
Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance Gilliam ( ; born 22 November 1940) is an American-British filmmaker, comedian, collage film, collage animator, and actor. He gained stardom as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe alongside John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Pa ...
* Bob Givens * Petar Gligorovski * Tsuneo Gōda * Eric Goldberg *
Keiji Gotoh is a Japanese anime director, character designer, manga artist, and member of three man production team gímik whose works include '' Kiddy Grade'' and '' Uta Kata''. Works Television * ''Thundercats'' (1985), In-between animation * '' Kiko Se ...
* Edd Gould * Manny Gould * Mark Gravas * C. H. Greenblatt *
Zlatko Grgić Zlatko Grgić (21 June 1931 – 4 October 1988) was a Croats, Croatian animator who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s. Born in Zagreb, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Grgić was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 52nd ...
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Paul Grimault Paul Grimault (; 23 March 1905 – 29 March 1994) was one of the most important French animators. He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical. His most important work is ''Le Roi et l'oiseau'' ...
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Matt Groening Matthew Abram Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is best known as the creator of the television series ''The Simpsons'' (1989–present), ''Futurama'' (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2 ...
* Jorge R. Gutierrez *
Otmar Gutmann Otmar Gutmann (24 April 1937 – 13 October 1993) was a German filmmaker who specialised in animation. He co-created the stop-motion television series ''Pingu'' alongside Erika Brueggemann. He started as an amateur in the 1960s. As a professiona ...


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* Zach Hadel * John Halas * Mark Hall * Lisa Hanawalt *
William Hanna William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, voice actor, and musician who is best known for co-creating ''Tom and Jerry'' and providing the vocal effects for the series' title characters. Alongside Joseph B ...
* Peter Hannan *
Arin Hanson Arin Joseph Hanson (born January 6, 1987), also known as Egoraptor, is an American YouTuber, actor, rapper, and animator. He is well known for his Flash cartoons, as well as being the co-founder and co-star of the popular YouTube Let's Play seri ...
* Keiichi Hara * Hugh Harman * Cyriak Harris * Ken Harris *
Ray Harryhausen Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American-British animator and special effects creator who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of both fields. In a career spanning more than 40 ...
* Butch Hartman *
Emery Hawkins Emery Otis Hawkins (April 30, 1912 – June 1, 1989) was an American animator, best known for his work during the Golden age of American animation, working in various studios in the industry. Early life and career Emery Hawkins was born in Jerom ...
* Ainslie Henderson *
Don Hertzfeldt Don Hertzfeldt (born August 1, 1976) is an American animator, writer, and independent filmmaker. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee who is best known for the animated films ''It's Such a Beautiful Day (film), It's Such a Beautiful Day'', the ...
* Shinji Higuchi * Stephen Hillenburg * Nick Hilligoss * Michi Himeno * Christopher Hinton * Hisashi Hirai * Toshiki Hirano * Hirokazu Hisayuki * Takeshi Honda * Yukiko Horiguchi * Mamoru Hosoda * Bu Hua *
Faith Hubley Faith Hubley (née Chestman; September 16, 1924 – December 7, 2001) was an American animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death. Biography Bor ...
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John Hubley John Kirkham Hubley (May 21, 1914 – February 21, 1977) was an American Animation, animated film director, art director, Film producer, producer, and Screenwriter, writer, known for his work with the United Productions of America, United Product ...
* Larry Huber *
Pixote Hunt Pixote Hunt (or Maurice Hunt) is an American film director and animator. He has been involved in films such as ''The Black Cauldron'', '' The Rescuers Down Under'' and '' Fantasia 2000'', and was most prolific in the 1980s and 1990s. Filmography ...
* Andreas Hykade * Alex Hirsch


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* Sayuri Ichiishi * Hiroyuki Imaishi * Isamu Imakake * Mutsumi Inomata *
Yasuhiro Irie is a Japanese animator, character designer and anime director. Biography Beginning his career at Sunrise, Irie worked as an animation director and animator on several productions before transitioning into directing. He made his directorial debu ...
* Noboru Ishiguro * Atsuko Ishizuka *
Rudolf Ising Rudolf Carl "Rudy" Ising ( ; August 7, 1903 – July 18, 1992) was an American animator best known for collaborating with Hugh Harman to establish the Warner Bros. and MGM Cartoon studios during the early years of the golden age of American a ...
* Mitsuo Iso * Willie Ito * Ikuko Itoh *
Ivan Ivanov-Vano Ivan Petrovich Ivanov-Vano (; – 25 March 1987), born Ivanov, was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian animation director, animator, screenwriter, educator, professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cine ...
* Janet Iwasa *
Ub Iwerks Ubbe Ert "Ub" Iwerks ( ; March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, Invention, inventor, and special effects technician, known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and f ...


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* Jaiden Animations * James Rallison * Jazza *
Wilfred Jackson Wilfred Emmons Jackson (January 24, 1906 – August 7, 1988) was an American animator, arranger, musical arranger and film director, director best known for his work with The Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney Productions. Jackson joined Walt Dis ...
* Hannah Jacobs * Nick Jennings * Graham Johnson * Tim Johnson * Ollie Johnston *
Chuck Jones Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, painter, voice actor and filmmaker, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of shorts. He ...
* Ian Jones-Quartey *
William Joyce William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born Fascism, fascist and Propaganda of Nazi Germany, Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the World War II, Second World War. After moving from ...
* JoWOnder * Jim Jinkins *
Mike Judge Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for being the creator of the animated television series ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' (1993–1997, 2011, 2022–present). He ...


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* Megumi Kadonosono * Milt Kahl * Masaki Kajishima * Narumi Kakinouchi * Sachiko Kamimura * Ryōki Kamitsubo * Yoshinori Kanada * Hiroshi Kanazawa * Hiroki Kanno * Christy Karacas *
Kunio Katō (born 1977) is a Japanese animator known for the short film ''La Maison en Petits Cubes'' which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He also created ''The Diary Of Tortov Roddle'', a surrealistic dream adventure. Filmograph ...
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Yoshiaki Kawajiri is a Japanese writer, director, storyboard artist and animator. A co-founder of the anime studio Madhouse, he is best known as the director of '' Wicked City'', '' Ninja Scroll'', and '' Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust''. Biography Kawajiri was bo ...
* Kihachirō Kawamoto *
Toshihiro Kawamoto is a Japanese animator. He is the co-founder and director of the anime studio Bones. He was the character designer and animation director of ''Cowboy Bebop''. Biography Early period Upon graduating from high school, Kawamoto was first employed ...
* Glen Keane * William Kentridge * Yoko Kikuchi *
Ward Kimball Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 – July 8, 2002) was an American animator employed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was part of Walt Disney's main team of animators, known collectively as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honor ...
* Hidefumi Kimura * Takahiro Kimura *
Jack Kinney John Ryan Kinney (March 29, 1909 – February 9, 1992)Lenburg (2006), pp. 180 was an American animator, director and producer of animated shorts. Kinney is the older brother of fellow Disney animator Dick Kinney. Early life Jack Kinney was born ...
* Hiroyuki Kitakubo * Masaru Kitao *
Hiroyuki Kitazume is a Japanese animator, manga artist and illustrator. He is often noted for his work with anime studio Sunrise (company), Sunrise. Helen McCarthy in ''500 Essential Anime Movies'' commented that he "shot to fame" in 1985 as an animation directo ...
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Arlene Klasky Arlene Phyllis Klasky (born May 26, 1949) is an American animator, graphic designer, Film producer, producer and co-founder of Klasky Csupo with Gábor Csupó. In 1999, she was named one of the "Top 25 Women in Animation" by ''Animation Magazine' ...
* Milton Knight * Osamu Kobayashi * Tomonori Kogawa * Takeshi Koike *
Masayuki Kojima is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, and director, best known for directing the acclaimed anime series ''Monster (manga), Monster'' and ''Made in Abyss''. He was born on March 11, 1961, in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan. Career Kojima first g ...
* Kazuo Komatsubara *
Satoshi Kon was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido, and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art Univer ...
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Katsuya Kondō is a Japanese mangaka, manga artist, character designer, animator and animation director. He is best known for his character design work on the Studio Ghibli films ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' and ''Ocean Waves (film), Ocean Waves'', as well as t ...
* Bryan Konietzko *
Yoshifumi Kondō was a Japanese animator who worked for Studio Ghibli in his last years. He was born in Gosen, Niigata, Gosen, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He worked as an animation director on ''Anne of Green Gables (1979 TV series), Anne of Green Gables'', ''She ...
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Bill Kopp William Kopp (born April 17, 1962) is an American animator, writer and voice actor. Career Kopp studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. In 1984, he won a Merit Award from the Student Academy Awards for ''Mr. Gloom''. In 1985, ...
* John Korty * Kitarō Kōsaka * Yōichi Kotabe *
Junichi Kouchi Jun'ichi or Junichi is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms Junichi can be written using different kanji characters. "Ichi" is nearly always written with the character ("one") or its ''daiji'' (large numerals) form , while "jun" migh ...
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John Kricfalusi Michael John Kricfalusi ( ; born September 9, 1955), known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, and former animator and voice actor. He is the creator of the animated television series ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', which ...
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Bill Kroyer William Kroyer is an American director of animation and computer graphics commercials, short films, movie titles, and theatrical films. He and Jerry Rees were the main animators for the CGI sequences in '' Tron''. From 2009 to 2021, he served as ...
* Ayumi Kurashima * Yōji Kuri * Kazuya Kuroda * Bob Kurtz * Bob Kuwahara * Tomoki Kyoda


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* Jean-François Laguionie * Michael Lah *
René Laloux René Laloux (; 13 July 1929 – 15 March 2004) was a French animator, screenwriter and film director. Biography He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in ...
* Evelyn Lambart * Walter Lantz * Eric Larson *
John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter ( ; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, a ...
* Caroline Leaf *
Phil Lord Philip Anderson Lord (born July 12, 1975) and Christopher Robert Miller (born September 23, 1975) are an American filmmaking and acting duo. Their films are known for subversion of genre and detailed visual sensation, spanning various styles of ...
* Peter Lord * John Lounsbery *
Andy Luckey Andrew A. Luckey (born October 7, 1965) is an American animator, artist, author, designer, director, illustrator and television producer, primarily of animated works. He also writes and illustrates children's books and Bible studies. Luckey has ...
* Bud Luckey * Robert Lue * Don Lusk *
Len Lye Leonard Charles Huia Lye (; 5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980) was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, ...


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Seth MacFarlane Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television series ''Family Guy'' (since 1999) and ''The Orvill ...
* Mahiro Maeda * Marcos Magalhães * Johji Manabe *
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh Jeffrey Kent "Swampy" Marsh (; born December 9, 1960) is an American animator, voice actor, writer, director, and producer. With Dan Povenmire, Marsh is the co-creator and co-star of the Disney Channel animated series ''Phineas and Ferb'' and ...
* Masao Maruyama *
Kenzō Masaoka was a Japanese early anime creator. Masaoka was the first to use cel animation and recorded sound in anime.Kōdansha (1993). ''Japan: an illustrated encyclopedia.'' Kōdansha, He worked at a number of companies as an animator and actor, and w ...
* Ryuji Masuda * Mitsuyuki Masuhara *
Leiji Matsumoto was a Japanese manga artist, and creator of several anime and manga series. His widow Miyako Maki is also a manga artist. Matsumoto was famous for his works such as ''Space Battleship Yamato'' and ''Galaxy Express 999''. His style was chara ...
* Norman McCabe *
Winsor McCay Zenas Winsor McCay ( – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip ''Little Nemo'' (1905–1914; 1924–1927) and the animated film ''Gertie the Dinosaur'' (1914). For contractual reasons, he w ...
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Craig McCracken Craig McCracken (born March 31, 1971) is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer known for creating Cartoon Network's ''The Powerpuff Girls'' and ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', Disney Channel and Disney XD's ''W ...
* Malcolm McGookin * Tom McGrath * Aaron McGruder * Patrick McHale * Chris McKay * Robert McKimson *
Norman McLaren William Norman McLaren, LL. D. (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish-Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).Rosenthal, Alan. ''The new documentary in action: a caseb ...
* Glenn McQueen *
Vivienne Medrano Vivienne Medrano (born October 28, 1992), also known by her online alias VivziePop, is an American YouTuber, animator, writer, director, producer, and voice actress. She is best known as the creator of the musical television series ''Hazbin Hotel ...
* Bill Melendez * Otto Messmer * Sarah E. Meyer * Pete Michels * Haruhiko Mikimoto * Christopher Miller * Greg Miller * Rob Minkoff * Yutaka Minowa * Toru Miura *
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Anime, Japanese ani ...
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Tadahito Mochinaga was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator. Having done many stop motion films in Japan, he is best known as the animator for Rankin/Bass' " Animagic" productions at his MOM Production Studio in Tokyo throughout the 1960s. He did this work in a ...
* Ram Mohan * Phil Monroe * Fred Moore * Yasuji Mori * Kōji Morimoto * Katsuji Morishita * Hiroyuki Morita *
Yuji Moriyama is a Japanese anime character designer, animator, animation supervisor and director. He is a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association and a winner of the 4th Japan Animation Awards in the Animation Director category. Career Moriyama ...
* Joshua Mosley * Phil Mulloy * Shukō Murase * Yasuji Murata * Joe Murray * Dave Mullins * James Ford Murphy * Kenneth Muse *
John Musker John Edward Musker (born November 8, 1953) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director Ron Clements and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animated films ''Th ...


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Mike Nawrocki Michael Louis Nawrocki (born July 8, 1966) is an American animator, filmmaker, teacher, and voice actor best known as the co-creator of the Christianity, Christian video series, ''VeggieTales'' where he voiced Larry the Cucumber. He voiced many ...
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Teddy Newton Teddy Newton is an American animator and voice actor, best known for his work at Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios. Career Newton worked as a storyboard artist on ''2 Stupid Dogs'', ''The Iron Giant'', and ''Dexter's Laboratory.'' He was a charact ...
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Chris Niosi Christopher Edwin Niosi (born December 31, 1988), also known by his pseudonym Kirbopher, is an American voice actor, animator, and producer. His voice-work includes Lord Uroko in '' Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea'', Arataka Reigen in '' Mob Psycho 10 ...
* Daisuke Nishio * Yoshinobu Nishizaki *
Floyd Norman Floyd Ernest Norman (born June 22, 1935) is an American animator, writer, and cartoonist. Over the course of his career, he has worked for various animation companies, among them Walt Disney Animation Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Ruby-Sp ...
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Willis O'Brien Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962), known as Obie O'Brien, was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known im ...
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Matthew O'Callaghan Matthew O'Callaghan is an American film director, animator, writer, and storyboard artist whose credits include directing the 2006 film Curious George (film), ''Curious George'' and co-creating the television series ''Life with Louie''. Life an ...
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Steve Oedekerk Steven Brent Oedekerk (born November 27, 1961) is an American filmmaker, actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for his collaborations with actor and comedian Jim Carrey and director Tom Shadyac (particularly the '' Ace Ventura'' franc ...
* Noburō Ōfuji * Atsushi Ogasawara * Fumitoshi Oizaki * Tadanari Okamoto * Tensai Okamura * Hiroyuki Okiura * Reiko Okuyama * Takahiro Omori * Joe Oriolo * Phil Ortiz * Hiroshi Ōsaka *
Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including ''Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer'' (1984), ''Angel's Egg'' (1985), '' ...
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Masaaki Ōsumi is a Japanese director known for his work in animated television series and films. Career Ōsumi was born in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from School of Media Science at the Tokyo University of Technology. He got his start in the en ...
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Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese Mangaka, manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave (manga), New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of ''Akira (franchise), Akira'', bo ...
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Monty Oum Monyreak "Monty" Oum ( ; June 22, 1981 – February 1, 2015) was an American web-based Computer animation, animator and writer. Oum attracted attention within the gaming community after releasing an animated video in 2007, titled ''Haloid'', wher ...


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Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker and animator who created '' Wallace & Gromit'', '' Creature Comforts'', '' Chicken Run'', '' Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Early Man''. Park has been nominated for an Academy ...
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Trey Parker Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He is best known for co-creating ''South Park'' (1997) and '' The Book of Mormon'' (2011) with his creative part ...
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Priit Pärn Priit Pärn (born 26 August 1946 in Tallinn) is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals. Pärn formerly worked as a plant ecologist; his car ...
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Jan Pinkava Jan Jaroslav Pinkava (born 21 June 1963) is a Czech-British-American producer, director, writer, and animator. He directed the Pixar short film '' Geri's Game'' and served as co-director and co-wrote the story for ''Ratatouille'', both of which ...
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Bill Plympton Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Award–nominated animated short '' Your Face'' and his series of shorts featuring a dog character starting ...
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Břetislav Pojar Břetislav Pojar (7 October 192312 October 2012) was a Czech puppeteer, animator and director of short film, short and feature films. Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on ''The Story of the ...
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Oliver Postgate Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English Animation, animator, puppeteer, and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. ''Bagpuss'', ''Pingwings' ...
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Joanna Quinn Joanna Lisa Quinn is an English independent film director and animator. Early life Quinn was born in Birmingham, England and grew up in North London. She went to school at Highgate Wood Secondary School and completed a foundation course in ar ...
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Mike Reiss Michael L. Reiss ( '; born September 15, 1959) is an American television comedy writer. He served as a showrunner, writer, and producer for the animated series ''The Simpsons'' and co-created the animated series ''The Critic''. He created and ...
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Lotte Reiniger Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are ''The Adventures of Prince Achmed'', from 1926, the oldest surviving feature-length a ...
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Wolfgang Reitherman Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909 – May 22, 1985), also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a German-American animator, director and producer. As a member of the "Disney's Nine Old Men, Nine Old Men" at Walt Disney Animati ...
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William Reiss William Arthur Reiss (born May 4, 1976) is an American animator, storyboard artist, and writer. Career Reiss first worked on the Nickelodeon series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' as an assistant storyboard artist in Season 1 as Bill Reiss, then go ...
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Émile Reynaud Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877 that improved on the zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated fil ...
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Richard Rich Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564. He was ...
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Justin Roiland Mark Justin Roiland (born February 21, 1980) is an American voice actor, animator, writer, and producer. He co-created the Adult Swim animated sitcom ''Rick and Morty'', for which he voiced the protagonists Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith from 2013 ...
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Tom Ruegger Tom Ruegger () is an American animator and songwriter. Ruegger is known for his association with Disney Television Animation and Warner Bros. Animation. He also created ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', ''Animaniacs'', '' Pinky and the Brain'', and '' H ...
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Carlos Saldanha Carlos Saldanha (; born 24 January 1965) is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who worked with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021. He was the director of ''Ice Age: The Meltdown'' (2006), ''Ice Ag ...
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Chris Savino Christopher Mason Savino (born October 2, 1971) is an American comic book artist, writer and former animator. He is well-known for having created the animated series '' The Loud House'' (2016–present) for Nickelodeon. Savino has also worked on ...
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Rod Scribner Roderick Henry Scribner (October 10, 1910 – December 21, 1976) was an American animator. He was best known for his work on the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons from Warner Bros. Cartoons. He worked during the Golden ...
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Fred Seibert Frederick G. Seibert is an American television producer and media proprietor. Seibert began his professional career as a jazz and blues record producer and audio engineer in the 1970s. He co-founded the record label Oblivion Records by 1972 an ...
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Henry Selick Charles Henry Selick Jr. (; born November 30, 1952) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his work in stop motion animation and for directing the films ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (1993), ''James and the Giant Peach (film) ...
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Mitsuyo Seo was a Japanese animator, screenwriter, and film director, director of animated films who played a central role in the development of Japanese anime. He was born in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture. Career Initially working as a sign painter, Seo began ...
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Ben Sharpsteen Benjamin Sharpsteen (November 4, 1895 – December 20, 1980) was an American film director and producer for The Walt Disney Company, Disney. He directed 31 films between 1920 and 1980. Sharpsteen created a museum documenting the history of C ...
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Makoto Shinkai , known as , is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist. He is known for his anime feature films produced with CoMix Wave Films. Shinkai began his career as a video game animator with Nihon Falcom in 1996, and gained recognition as a filmmaker with ...
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Masamune Shirow , better known by his pen name , is a Japanese manga artist. Shirow is best known for the manga ''Ghost in the Shell'', which has since been turned into three theatrical anime films, two anime television series, an anime television film, an ani ...
* David Silverman * Sindhuja Rajaraman * Marek Skrobecki * Mike Scully *
Alvy Ray Smith Alvy Ray Smith III (born September 8, 1943) is an American computer scientist who co-founded Lucasfilm's Computer Division and Pixar, participating in the 1980s and 1990s expansion of computer animation into feature film. He is one of the 50 F ...
* Bruce W. Smith * Jim Smith * Peter Sohn * Manick Sorcar * Alison Snowden * Irven Spence * Michael Sporn * Aaron Springer * David Sproxton *
Vernon Stallings George Vernon Stallings (September 9, 1891 – April 9, 1963) was an American animation director and writer. He started working for Bray Productions in 1916 where he directed the Colonel Heeza Liar series of shorts, and the Krazy Kat shorts. He ...
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Andrew Stanton Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker. He is best known as the director and co-writer of the Pixar animated films ''Finding Nemo'' (2003), ''WALL-E'' (2008), ''Finding Dory'' (2016), and the upcoming ''Toy Story 5 ...
* Ladislas Starevich * Richard Starzak *
Matt Stone Matthew Richard Stone (born May 26, 1971) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, and musician. He is best known for co-creating ''South Park'' (since 1997) and ''The Book of Mormon (musical), The Book of Mormon'' (2011) with his cre ...
* Eiji Suganuma * Rebecca Sugar * Pat Sullivan * Rosana Sullivan * Sid Sutherland *
Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl- boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl- halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979. Early life a ...
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Jan Švankmajer Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech retired film director, animator, writer, playwright and artist. He draws and makes free graphics, collage, ceramics, tactile objects and asse ...
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Doug Sweetland Doug Sweetland is an American animator and filmmaker. He wrote and directed the Pixar short film ''Presto (film), Presto'' (2008), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Career In 1994, Sweetland joined Pixar af ...
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Charles Swenson Charles Gregory Swenson (born March 28, 1941) is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, sound designer, producer and director who worked with animated film for many years. He wrote, directed, and animated the 1974 unrated adult-themed ...


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Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with ''Urusei Yatsura'' in 1978, she is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are known worldwide, where they have been tra ...
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Iwao Takamoto Iwao Takamoto (April 29, 1925 – January 8, 2007) was a Japanese-American animator, character designer, television producer, and film director. He began his career as a production and character designer for Walt Disney Animation Studios films ...
* Yasuhiro Takeda * LiQin Tan * Atsuko Tanaka *
Genndy Tartakovsky Gennady Borisovich "Genndy" Tartakovsky (; born January 17, 1970) is a Soviet-born American animation, animator, screenwriter, film producer, and film director, director. He is best known as the creator of various animated television series on ...
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Frank Tashlin Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), also known as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator and filmmaker. He was best known for his work on the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' ...
* Ryōsuke Tei * Suzie Templeton * Doug TenNapel * Dana Terrace * Macoto Tezuka *
Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu'', – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Considered to be among the greatest and most influential cartoonists of all time, his prolific output, pioneering techniques an ...
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Tomokazu Tokoro is a Japanese animator and director, best known for directing the anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers ...
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Yoshiyuki Tomino is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist best known for creating the ''Gundam'' anime franchise. Early life and family Tomino was born on November 5, 1941, in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, to an old family of regio ...
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Alex Toth Alexander Toth (; June 25, 1928 – May 27, 2006) was an American cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera through ...
* Jiří Trnka * Kazuya Tsurumaki *
Daisuke Tsutsumi (born November 6, 1974) is a Japanese animator and illustrator living in San Francisco, California. He is a former art director of Pixar. Biography Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, he is married to , a jewelry artist and the niece of acclaimed ...
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Yasuyuki Ueda is a Japanese producer, who has worked on such projects as '' Serial Experiments Lain'' (a producer and story writer). He was a director for the ''Noel'' video game, worked on the ''Lain'' video game, as well as on '' Wachenröder'' for the Seg ...
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Lee Unkrich Lee Edward Unkrich (born August 8, 1967) is an American film director, editor and writer. He is best known for his work with animation studio Pixar, which he joined in 1994 as an editor before being credited as a co-director on ''Toy Story 2'' ...
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Jan Van Rijsselberge Jan Van Rijsselberge is a Belgian creator, designer and producer, who is credited on multiple animated TV series, including ''Robotboy'', ''Hairy Scary'' and ''Santa's Apprentice''. After getting a diploma in Animation Film Directing in Gent (Belg ...
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Thurop Van Orman Mark "Thurop" Ashton Van Orman (born April 26, 1976) is an American cartoonist, animator, writer, producer, director, and voice actor. He worked with Cartoon Network to create and produce the animated series '' The Marvelous Misadventures of F ...
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Edith Vernick Edith Ida Vernick (April 18, 1906 – May 25, 1992) was a Ukrainian-American animator, hired by the Fleischer Studios in the mid-1920s and became the In between Department Supervisor. Her animation work is uncredited on ''The Fresh Vegetable Myster ...
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Conrad Vernon Conrad Vernon (born July 11, 1968) is an American director, producer, writer, storyboard artist and voice actor, best known for his work on the DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks animated film series ''Shrek (franchise), Shrek'' as well as other fil ...
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Will Vinton William Gale Vinton (November 17, 1947 – October 4, 2018) was an American animator and filmmaker. Vinton was best known for his Claymation work, alongside creating iconic characters such as The California Raisins. He won an Academy Awards, Os ...
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Dušan Vukotić Dušan Vukotić ( Serbo-Croat Cyrillic: Душан Вукотић; 7 February 1927 – 8 July 1998) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin, with Croatian citizenship, cartoonist, author and director of animated films. He is the best known member of ...


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Ben Washam Benjamin Alfred Washam (March 17, 1915 – March 28, 1984) was an American animator who is best known for working under director Chuck Jones for nearly 30 years. According to his World War II draft registration, he was born in Newport, Jackson Co ...
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Dave Wasson Dave Wasson (born September 11, 1968) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, producer, writer, and voice actor. Wasson created the Cartoon Network original series '' Time Squad'', before going on to develop '' Star vs. the Forces ...
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Akio Watanabe is a Japanese animator, illustrator, character designer, supervisor, director, dōjin artist and a member of the circle . His pseudonym is . He worked with Akiyuki Shinbo at Shaft. His representative works include key animation for '' Popotan ...
* Hajime Watanabe *
Shinichirō Watanabe is a Japanese anime television and film director, best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series ''Cowboy Bebop'', '' Samurai Champloo'', '' Space Dandy'', '' Terror in Resonance'', and '' Carole & T ...
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Chris Wedge John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film ''Tron'' (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios ...
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Mo Willems Mo Willems (born February 11, 1968) is an American writer, animator, voice actor, and children's book author. His work includes creating the animated television series '' Sheep in the Big City'' for Cartoon Network, working on '' Sesame Stre ...
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* Kimio Yabuki * Kōji Yamamura * Akihiko Yamashita * Tetsuya Yanagisawa * Akira Yasuda * Michiyo Yasuda *
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is a Japanese animator, manga artist, and anime director. He is best known for being the character designer and animation director of the original '' Mobile Suit Gundam'' anime, which began in 1979. That same year, he began working as a mang ...
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Hajime Yatate is a pseudonym for the collective contributions of the Bandai Namco Filmworks#Sunrise, Sunrise（Bandai Namco Filmworks） animation staff. Name "Hajime Yatate" is considered to be named after a quote of Matsuo Bashō's ''Oku no Hosomichi'': ...
* Hiromasa Yonebayashi * Kenichi Yoshida * Yasuhiro Yoshiura * Masaaki Yuasa * Nobuteru Yūki


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Rudy Zamora Joaquin Rudolfo Zamora (March 26, 1910 – July 29, 1989) was a Mexican-American animator and animation director. His credits include, among others, '' The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'', '' The Jetsons'', '' The Smurfs'', '' The Biskitts'', '' Pea ...
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Karel Zeman Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. He is best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation, including '' Journey to the Beginning ...


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