- 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 - 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". - Butt-Head
Butt-head is a character from the MTV animated series "Beavis and Butt-head". He was voiced by the show's creator, Mike Judge. Some of the mispronunciations of Butt-head's name by adults, include Buffcoat, Bernard, Headbutt, Butthole, Butter-head, Tangpode, Nuthead and Bob-head. - Andrew Adamson
Andrew Adamson MNZM (b. December 1, 1966) is a New Zealand film director based mainly in Los Angeles, California, USA, where he made the blockbuster animation films, "Shrek" and "Shrek 2" for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He was director, executive producer, and scriptwriter for C. S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". Shooting took place in New Zealand, primarily in and around Auckland, … - Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original "Star Wars" films, Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the Wing Commander franchise, and as the voice of The Joker in "Batman: The Animated Series". After the "Star Wars" films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, … - Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese animation and live-action film writer and director famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling. Presently, Oshii lives in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan with his dogs - a basset hound named Gabriel (ガブリエル) and a mutt named Daniel (both are featured in "Tachiguishi-Retsuden"). - Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short "Your Face". - 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. - Treasure Planet
"Treasure Planet" is a 2002 Academy Award nominated science fiction animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. The 42nd animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is a science fiction retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel "Treasure Island". It was produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker from a screenplay by Musker, Clements, … - 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, … - 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... - 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). - Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane (born March 16, 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, toy manufacturer/designer, and media entrepreneur. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. - 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. - Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. - Jerry Beck
Jerry Beck (born February 9, 1955) is a well known animation historian, with ten books and numerous articles to his credit. He is also an animation producer, an industry consultant, and has been an executive with Nickelodeon and Disney. - 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. - Cheech Marin
Richard "Cheech" Marin (born on July 13, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American comedian and actor, who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech and Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s, and as Don Johnson's quick-and-scheme partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez on "Nash Bridges". His nickname "Cheech" is short for "Chicharron", a spicy fried pork skin which is a popular snack amongst Mexicans. - Carrie-Anne Moss
Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Trinity in "The Matrix" trilogy. - Jay Ward
J Troplong "Jay" Ward was an American creator and producer of animated television cartoons. He is known for producing animated series based on characters such as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick and Super Chicken. His company, Jay Ward Productions, also designed the trademark characters for Cap'n Crunch, Quisp and Quake breakfast cereals and made commercials for those products, … - Mary Blair
Mary Blair (October 21, 1911-July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist best remembered today for work done for The Walt Disney Company. Blair produced striking concept art for such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan". Her style also lives on through the character designs for the Disney attraction "it's a small world", as well as an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort. - Takashi Murakami
is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist. Murakami works in both fine arts media, such as painting; as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies. Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, … - Diedrich Bader
Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Oswald on "The Drew Carey Show". He was born in Alexandria, Virginia. At the age of two, his family moved to Paris, France, but returned to the U.S. to attend high school and later college at the North Carolina School of the Arts. After a few guest roles on popular television series such as "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", … - Michael Barrier
"Michael Barrier" may refer to either of these two persons: *American actor, best known for appearances as Lieutenant DeSalle on "Star Trek: The Original Series". He appeared in at least three episodes: "The Squire of Gothos", "This Side of Paradise" and "Catspaw". *Famous and well-respected animation historian, who spent over twenty-five years of his life researching animation, … - Joe Ranft
Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft was a magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor who worked for Pixar and Disney. - Roger Allers
Roger Allers is a Animation director and Storyboard Artist of Disney animated films. Away from the Disney studio, he directed the animated movie, "Open Season" for Sony. He directed the Academy Award winning movie "The Lion King", with Rob Minkoff. He was also nominated for a Tony for writing the book of the hit Broadway musical version of "The Lion King". He was a Story Artist on Oliver & Company and The Little Mermaid. - Fred Seibert
Fred Seibert (born 1951) is a television and movie producer, and an entertainment executive who has held leading positions with MTV Networks and Hanna-Barbera. Seibert was MTV's first creative director and helped develop its on-air visual identity, creating hundreds of station IDs for the channel. He also commissioned and approved the mutating MTV logo, despite network executives objections to a logo that did not remain constant. - Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Yoshiaki Kawajiri is a critically acclaimed writer / director of Japanese animation. He is the creator of titles such as "Yoju Toshi (Wicked City)", "Jubei ninpucho (Ninja Scroll)", and "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust", and is considered one of the more revolutionary directors in Anime history. - Ronnie del Carmen
Ronnie del Carmen (born in the Philippines, December 31, 1959) is an animation storyboard and story artist. Most recently he did Story Supervisor duties on Pixar's "Finding Nemo". - Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen Hillenburg (born August 21, 1961, in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA) is an American animator and is best known as the creator of Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants". He was a marine biology teacher at what is now the Orange County Ocean Institute. He worked as a marine biologist from 1984-1987. In 1987 Hillenburg decided to pursue a career in animation, his second lifelong passion. - Nina Paley
Nina Paley (born May 3, 1968) is an American cartoonist and animator. While she is widely known as the artist and often the writer as well of "Nina's Adventures", "Fluff", and "The Hots", almost all of her recent efforts have been in the field of animation. Her best-known animations to date are "Fetch" and "The Stork". - Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie is a comic book and animation writer. He has worked for many comic book companies, including Marvel Comics, Milestone Media, DC Comics, Harvey Comics, and Archie Comics. - Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips (born January 1971) is an Australian freelance animator. His recent work, for which he is best known, has consisted of flash animation compositions published on his website Bitey Castle and on the flash portal Newgrounds (there, as of December 2006, his movies have over six million views and he is the third highest-rated artist with a 'Batting Average' of 4.21 out of 5). He is the creator of the Brackenwood series. - Lotte Reiniger
Charlotte (Lotte) Reiniger (June 2, 1899 - June 19, 1981) was a German (and later a British) silhouette animator and film director. - Oskar Fischinger
Oskar Fischinger was an abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short films, and painted c. 900 canvases which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide. Among his film works is "Motion Painting No. 1" (1947), which is part of the United States National Film Registry. - Liam Lynch
Liam Lynch (born September 5, 1970) is a musician, puppeteer, and director. He co-created, co-wrote, played the music for, directed, and produced the MTV's "Sifl and Olly Show". Lynch also made the album "Fake Songs", released in 2002, produced by his own company, 111 Productions. This album featured the song "United States of Whatever", which charted in the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and Australia. - Joanna Cassidy
Joanna Virginia Cassidy (born August 2 1945 in Haddonfield, New Jersey) is an American actress who has been active in film and television much of her career. Cassidy got her start guest starring on television series such as "Mission: Impossible", "Falcon Crest", "Starsky & Hutch" and "Fantasy Island", as well as having starring roles on programs such as "240-Robert", "Buffalo Bill", and "Dallas". - John A. Davis
John A. Davis is an American animator who created the computer-animated television series "Jimmy Neutron". He also directed the film Ant Bully after being approached by Tom Hanks to direct the film. Production on the film made John resign from Jimmy Neutron in January of 2003. He gave his position away as Executive In Charge of production to Steve Oedekerk the two Business Partners have been Associated with Various CGI Animated Projects for over 10 years. - Mr. Scruff
Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy (born in 1972 in Macclesfield, England), a British DJ and artist. He is a native of Manchester, England and studied Fine Art at the Sheffield College of Art. His DJ name was inspired by his trademark loose-lined drawing style. He has been DJing since 1994, at first in and around Manchester then nationwide in the United Kingdom. He is known for DJing in marathon sets (often exceeding six hours), …
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