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Its earliest records come from 1912 (the films of Ladislas Starevich).


.EDU Film Festival

In 2009 panelists included: documentarian Melody Gilbert, documentarian Matt Ehling, film reviewer and novelist Peter Schilling, film critic Colin Covert, film writer Jim Brunzell III, news editor Euan Kerr, filmmaker and animator Tom Schroeder, screenwriter Michael Starrbury, producer/filmmaker Bobby Marsden, production manager Deena Graf, and creative director Jeffrey Bair.

1991 in animation

May 22 – Joy Batchelor, English director, producer, writer, art director and animator

Ben Dunn

In 2006, Dunn worked as an animator for the science-fiction film "A Scanner Darkly."

Bibo Bergeron

Bergeron has served as animator on films like Asterix in Britain, Asterix and the Big Fight, Fievel Goes West, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, A Goofy Movie, The Iron Giant, The Adventures of Pinocchio and Bee Movie.

Blechman

R. O. Blechman (born 1930), American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist

Brannon

Ash Brannon, lead animator for Pixar's first feature length animation

Buddy's Day Out

It was directed by former Disney animator Tom Palmer, who created Buddy as a star character to replace Harman and Ising's Bosko, and was shortly thereafter fired from the studio.

Dog Pounded

Dog Pounded also marks the only use of Pepé Le Pew in a Friz Freleng-directed short (and the second time Pepé Le Pew has appeared in a cartoon that was not directed by Chuck Jones—the first being Arthur Davis' Odor of the Day).

Dr. Hackenstein

The film's visible contemporary influences include Re-Animator and Young Frankenstein.

Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair

Animator and director Don Bluth, who produced the cartoon animation for the arcade original, also produced two new animated sequences for the opening and ending of the game.

Em Stone

Through HACK/Slash storylines, Ms. Stone has drawn numerous pop-culture characters including Reanimator's Herbert West, the Suicide Girls, Milk & Cheese among others.

Grim Natwick Film Festival

Guest for the 2012 Festival held 22 to 24 June included Tim Decker, lecturer in animation from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and former layout artist and animator of The Simpsons, John Roberts, director of Cannes Film Festival shown Mary's Friend and The Wheel, together with returning guests Mahoney, Simms, and Strenger.

Guests for the 2010 Festival included cartoonist and animator Nina Paley and other animators from Wisconsin.

Herbert West–Reanimator

In the 1985 film adaptation, the character is (ostensibly) named Dan Cain (played by Bruce Abbott).

Ian Jones-Quartey

Ian Jones-Quartey is a storyboard artist, animator and voice actor who supplies the voice of Wallow in Bravest Warriors and is creative director of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe.

Jesper Møller

1991: Animator on FernGully – The last Rainforest.

Ken Harris

Harris's credits with him included A Christmas Carol (1971) — as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge — the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and the still-unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler (animating the Thief of the title, which is very reminiscent of Harris's earlier work animating Wile E. Coyote for Jones).

Kent, Connecticut

Seth MacFarlane (b. 1973), animator, TV producer and director and voice actor who created Family Guy, Cleveland Show, and American Dad!, born in Kent, as well as his sister Rachael MacFarlane (b. 1976)

Kirk Demorest

Demorest was the editor for Walt Disney Television Animation's “Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas” where he worked for months alongside world-renowned animator Andreas Deja in crafting the first Computer-generated imagery animation versions of Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy.

Krymchaks

A few hundred Krymchaks still clinging to their Crimean identity live in the United States and Israel: animator Ralph Bakshi is the most famous of these.

Laurence Wright

The film, part documentary and part disaster movie spoof, was narrated by Hans Conried and featured legendary Disney Studios animator, Ward Kimball in a guest starring role.

Lil' Ainjil

Unlike the Krazy Kat films of the Winkler and Columbia periond, animator Isidore Klein attempt to create Lil' Ainjil in the milieu of George Herriman's comic strips.

Loren Bouchard

A high school dropout, Bouchard was working as a bartender in 1993 when he bumped into a former grade school teacher of his, Tom Snyder.

Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft

Movies reviewed inside the book include more popular films such as In the Mouth of Madness, Alien, Hellboy, The Thing, the cult classic Re-Animator as well as more obscure Japanese works such as Marebito and Uzumaki, Italian gore films (The Beyond) and even comedies (Cast a Deadly Spell).

Marge Champion

Marge Champion's first marriage was to Art Babbitt (1907–1992), a top animator at Disney and creator of Goofy.

Mars Needs Moms

Simon Wells had known Zemeckis since the mid-1980s when he was supervising animator and storyboard artist for Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Mike Thurmeier

Michael "Mike" Thurmeier is a Canadian-American animator and director at Blue Sky Studios.

National Institute of Mental Health

The novel was later adapted into a critically acclaimed animated feature film entitled The Secret of NIMH by animator and director Don Bluth.

Nik Ranieri

Soon after that he moved to Disney's feature animation studio in Glendale, CA where he animated on The Little Mermaid (working primarily on the character of Ursula the sea witch, under supervising animator Ruben Aquino).

Nikolay Fyodorov

Nikolay Petrovich Fyodorov, animator at Soyuzmultfilm from the 1930s to the 1980s and director of a number of notable films in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Snow Queen (1957)

Ōfuji Noburō Award

As well as being an adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel, The Old Man and the Sea is the winning work of Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov.

Paperman

In an interview with Animation World Network, director John Kahrs revealed that Paperman first materialized when he was working as an animator at Blue Sky Studios during the 1990s.

Peter Shin

Peter Shin is an animator who served as supervising director of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, the director of Big Bug Man, the director of Family Guy episodes "Death Has a Shadow", "Emission Impossible", "North by North Quahog", and "It's a Trap!", and was a character layout artist The Simpsons for several episodes between 1990 and 1995.

Philip Stark

In 2000, along with his friend, animator Graham Robertson, Stark created the popular online cartoon parody of the Budweiser "Whassup" commercial featuring clips from the Superfriends.

Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

The project was directed by French animator Bernard Deyriès, well-known at the time for DIC's science-fiction series Ulysses 31 and Mysterious Cities of Gold (both also animated by Japanese studios), and Japanese partner Kimio Yabuki, a legendary animator at Toei Animation and former cohort of Hayao Miyazaki.

Red Defender

The Red Defender character was created in 2006 by animator J. J. Sedelmaier (known for his work on Saturday Night Live’s TV Funhouse) for the Advertising Council's blood donation campaign.

Roy Smith

Roy Allen Smith (born 1954), American animator, film director and producer

Sauder

Peter Sauder, Canadian film and TV writer, television producer and animator

SEK Studio

Canadian animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle documented his experiences whilst working at the SEK Studio in his graphic novel, Pyongyang: A Journey into North Korea.

Shanghai Institute of Visual Art

Guest lecturers and professors include Asia's most renowned actor Jackie Chan, “Michelangelo of Modern Times” fresco artist Rainer Maria Latzke, Beowulf and Spider-Man movie animator Sing-Chong Foo, Japanese manga master Makoto Ogino, the creator of the “Peacock King”, and renowned painters Carlos Morell Orlandis and Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman.

Space Ace

The animation for Space Ace was produced by the same team that tackled the earlier Dragon's Lair, headed by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth.

Spring-Ford Area School District

Chuck Sheetz, artist, Emmy-winning animator and director for The Simpsons

Suzie Templeton

Raised at Highfield in Southampton, she began work as an animator as a child with her older brother.

The Droplift project

Under the stewardship of animator and sometimes Negativland collaborator Tim Maloney, the tracks were submitted via FTP, collated, mastered, and pressed to CD.

The Kustomonsters

The Kustomonsters is an animated web series and TV show created by, Craig Clark, an art rock, darkwave musician (Chorus of Souls on Fluxus Records), animator (Forrest Gump and The Simpsons).

The Porky Pig Show

Since Warner Bros. had closed their cartoon studio the year before, the opening and closing animation and bumpers were produced in New York by animator Hal Seeger, with Winston Sharples composing the title song.

Vietti

Brandon Vietti, American television producer, director and animator

Zsolt Richly

Zsolt Richly (born March 23, 1941 in Sopron, Hungary) is a Hungarian animator who worked as a director in PannóniaFilm.


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