- Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts for the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew and the other Warners characters, including the memorable "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957), … - Hayao Miyazaki
Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most famous and well-respected creators of anime. He has three brothers, he being the second oldest. His older brother, Arata Miyazaki , was born in July 1939. His first younger brother is Shirou Miyazaki. His youngest is brother is named Yutaka Miyazaki and was born in January 1944. In 1947, Miyazaki enrolled at a school in... More A - John Lasseter
John A. Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Widely considered an innovative genius, many praise him as the "current Walt Disney." - Ollie Johnston
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (born on October 31,1912 in Palo Alto, California) is a pioneer in the field of motion picture animation. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last living member. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005. He was a directing animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935-1978. He contributed to many films including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, … - Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 - August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwball Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy into regular cartoon characters. - Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley Bird (born on September 11, 1957 in Kalispell, Montana) is an American Academy Award-winning animator who is known for writing and directing the 1999 Warner Bros. film "The Iron Giant" and the critical and box office hits "The Incredibles" (2004) and "Ratatouille" (2007) from Disney/Pixar. - Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has the distinction of being the only American-born Python, as the rest of the group are all British by birth. - Richard Williams
Richard Williams (born on March 19, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian animator, animation director, film director, and film producer. He is most well-known for serving as animation director on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" as well as for his unfinished feature film "The Thief and the Cobbler". He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to "What's New, Pussycat?" (1965), … - Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short "Your Face". - Frank Thomas
Franklin Thomas was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. He graduated from Stanford University - where he worked on campus humor magazine the Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston -- then later attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224. There he animated dozens of feature films and shorts, and also was a member of the Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, … - Eric Goldberg
Eric Goldberg (born in 1955) is an American animator and film director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Feature Animation, animating notable characters such as the Genie in "Aladdin" and "Phil" in "Hercules". Goldberg is also the co-director of Disney's 1995 feature "Pocahontas". He attended Pratt Institute, where he majored in illustration. - Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American animated films director, screenwriter, as well as a voice actor. His most notable film work is writing and directing Pixar's "Finding Nemo," which received an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2004. Stanton is now working on WALL-E set for release in 2008. - Don Bluth
Donald Virgil Bluth (born September 13 1937) is an American animator and independent studio owner. Bluth was born in El Paso, Texas and became one of the chief animators at Disney. Along with fellow animators Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy, he set out in 1979 to start his own animation studio, Don Bluth Productions. His style tends toward rougher and more energetic portrayals than that of Disney films, and tend to have a mystical element to them. - Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE (b. December 6, 1958) is a four-time Academy Award-winning English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit. He has been nominated for an Oscar five times and won four times (losing the fifth to another of his own films). Nick Park was born in Preston in Lancashire, England, and attended Cuthbert Mayne High School (now Our Lady's Catholic High School). He grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons. - Ralph Bakshi
From RalphBakshi.com: "Ralph Bakshi was born in October 1938 in Haifa, Israel. In 1939 his family came to New York escaping the war. He grew up in Brooklyn and went to the High School of... ... You may not know him, but Ralph Bakshi is perhaps well-known for starting the trend that we now called Adult Animation. Born in Israel but raise in New York, Ralph works his way up in the animation industry, working in Terrytoons... - Matthew Abram Groening
Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not take a particular interest in school, which is what originaly turned him towards drawing. In the mid-1980' s, Matt Groening moved to Los... ... Matt Groening created The Simpsons. Matt Groening created Futurama. The Simpsons is one of the greatest shows ever. Furturama is one of the greatest shows ever. Because of this Simpsons fact Matt Groening is one of the all-time greats. Because of... - Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett (May 8 1913-May 4 1984) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the "Looney Tunes" series of cartoons from Warner Bros. and the television shows "Time for Beany", and "Beany and Cecil". - Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz (April 27 1899 - March 22 1994) was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for founding the Walter Lantz Studio and creating Woody Woodpecker. - Ub Iwerks
Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His name is explained by his East Frisian roots — his father, Eert Ubbe Iwwerks, emigrated to the USA in 1869 from the village Uttum in East Frisia (northwest Germany). - Ward Kimball
Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 - July 8, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning animator for the Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men. While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than complicated human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things differently. Because of this, Walt Disney called Ward a genius in the book, … - Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 - August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nick names "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". - Will Finn
Will Finn is an American animator, voice actor, and director. His work in animation includes characters from Disney and Don Bluth films such as "The Secret of NIMH", Oliver and Company, and "Pocahontas". His characters include Laverne ("The Hunchback of Notre Dame"), Iago ("Aladdin"), and Cogsworth ("Beauty and the Beast"). Finn also co-wrote and co-directed the film "Home on the Range" and did some voice acting in Chicken Little. - John Kricfalusi
John Kricfalusi is an Emmy-nominated Canadian animator, better known as John K. He is creator of "The Ren & Stimpy Show" and "The Ripping Friends" animated series, "The Goddamn George Liquor Program", the first animated series made using Macromedia Flash, as well as the founder of animation studio Spümcø International. When Kricfalusi didn't completely approve of one his cartoons, … - Winsor McCay
Winsor McCay (September 26 1867(?) – July 26 1934) was a prolific artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation. His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as Moebius, Chris Ware, William Joyce, and Maurice Sendak. His early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set the model to be followed by Walt Disney and others. - Glen Keane
Glen Keane (born on 1954) is the son of Bil Keane (an illustrator best known for the daily comic strip "The Family Circus") and Thelma "Thel" Carne Keane. He is perhaps the most famous traditional (2D) lead character animator in recent history. He is currently employed at Walt Disney Studios. Glen left CalArts in 1974 and joined Disney the same year. His debut work was featured in "The Rescuers" as an animator for Penny, alongside the famed Ollie Johnston, … - Bruce Timm
Bruce Walter Timm (born on February 8 1961) is an American character designer, animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, well known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise. - Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer was an important Austrian-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon. He brought such characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations. - Mike Judge
Michael Craig Judge (born 17 October 1962 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is an American animator, actor, voice actor, writer, and producer, best-known as the creator and star of the hit animated television series "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill". He also wrote and directed the films "Office Space", "Idiocracy", and "Beavis and Butt-head Do America". - Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt (born August 1, 1976) is the creator of many short animated films, including the Academy-Award nominated cult favorite "Rejected". Collectively, his animated films have received over one hundred awards and have been presented in over a thousand film festivals and venues worldwide. Before the age of thirty, his films were already the subject of several career retrospectives. - Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1906 -May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. - Ryan Larkin
Ryan Larkin (b. July 31 1943, Montreal, Quebec - d. February 14 2007, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec) was a Canadian animator who rose to fame with the psychedelic 1969 Oscar-nominated short "Walking" and the acclaimed "Street Musique" (1972). - Marc Davis
Marc Fraser Davis was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films. Some of the animated characters Davis mainly designed and animated are Thumper from "Bambi" (1942), Brer Rabbit from "Song of the South" (1946), "Cinderella" (1950), Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), Tinker Bell in "Peter Pan" (1953), … - John Canemaker
John Canemaker (b. 1943) is an Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department. Since 1988 he has directed the program and is currently a tenured full professor. From 2001-2002 he was Acting Chair of the NYU Undergraduate Film and Television Department. - Eric Larson
Eric Larson (September 3, 1905 - October 25, 1988) was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios starting in 1933 and was one of the "Disney's Nine Old Men." Larson worked on such films as "Snow White", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Cinderella", "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan", "Lady and the Tramp", "Sleeping Beauty", "101 Dalmatians", and "The Jungle Book". - Preston Blair
Preston Blair (1918-1994) was an American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Productions and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation departmen - Trey Parker
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker III (born October 19, 1969) is an American animator, screenwriter, film director, voice actor, actor and musician. He is most noted as one of the creators of the animated series "South Park" along with Matt Stone. - Osamu Tezuka
was a mangaka (Japanese manga artist) and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion". He is often credited as the Father of Anime, and the Walt Disney of Japan. His prolific output and his pioneering techniques and genres earned him such titles as "the father of manga" and "the god of manga." The distinctive "large eyes" style of Japanese animation (anime) was invented by Tezuka, … - Chris Landreth
Chris Landreth (born 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film, "Ryan". He has made many CGI animated films since the mid-90s, including "The End", "Bingo", "The Listener", "Caustic Sky: A Portrait of Regional Acid Deposition", and "Data Driven The Story Of Franz K". - Norman McLaren
Norman McLaren, C. C., C. Q. (b. April 11 1914 - d. January 27 1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). - Jim Smith
Jim Smith, born James Carl Jobb in Lubbock, Texas in 1954, is an American animator and musician. He worked on "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" with his long-time working partner John Kricfalusi. Smith later briefly worked on "Tiny Toon Adventures", and then along with Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, and Lynne Naylor, he founded Spümcø where he co-created "Ren & Stimpy" and "The Ripping Friends".
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