List of Animation Department

Sara Montez

Sara Montez is known for her work on This Is Us (2016), Birds of Prey (2020) and Inheritance (2017).

Marvelously quirky and creative writer, director, producer and animator Savage Steve Holland was born in 1960. Holland earned the childhood nickname Savage after he kicked a kid in the teeth during a soccer game. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Holland’s student project “Going Nowhere Fast” was exhibited at the Museum …

Animation Department Director Writer

Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. He was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel, the son of Mina (Zlotin) and Eliezar Bakshi, and is of Krymchak Jewish descent. He was raised in Brownsville, after his family came to New York to escape World War II. Bakshi …

Actor Animation Department Soundtrack

Tony Anselmo

Tony Anselmo was born on February 18, 1960 in Salt Lake City, UT, and formed an early fascination with all things Disney sparked by a screening of Mary Poppins (1964) at the age of five. His family moved to Sunnyvale, in northern California, when he was seven, and he continued to actively study Disney and …

Animation Department Art Department Special Effects

Toby Froud

Toby Froud was born in 1984 in London, England. He is known for his work on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019), Labyrinth (1986) and Lessons Learned (2014).

Actor Animation Department Producer

Jim Meskimen

Jim Meskimen is an accomplished actor, improviser and voice artist whose work is well-known to TV and film audiences. He appeared on the British series Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988) several times, and was a recurring character on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990) for two seasons. He has worked with director Ron Howard …

Animation Department Director Writer

Henry Selick

Henry Selick is a film director, specializing in films with stop-motion animation. He has formal training as an animator. Selick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, son of Charles H. Selick and Melanie Molan. He was mostly raised Rumson, New Jersey. As a child, Selick took up drawing as a hobby. He became fascinated …

Animation Department Director Producer

Travis Knight

Travis Knight was born on September 13, 1973 in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA as Travis Andrew Knight. He is known for his work on Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), ParaNorman (2012) and Bumblebee (2018).

Animation Department Producer Writer

Matt Groening

Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not particularly like school, which is what originally turned him towards drawing. In the mid-1980s, he moved to Los Angeles and started drawing a comic strip named “Life in Hell”, which eventually became published in the newspaper where he worked. In 1988, James L. Brooks, looking for …