Famous Animators Worldwide

Here are some of the world famous animators who have made many famous animated movies.

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2. Seth MacFarlane MacFarlane is a graduate of the  Rhode Island School of Design , where he studied animation. As the creator of an entire cartoon empire it’s fair to say Seth MacFarlane is one of the most famous animators worldwide. He debuted the  animated  hit Family Guy in 1999, American Dad!, . Despite gaining a massive following, Family Guy was  cancelled  after season 3. This was overturned a few years later when the show came back on the air along with a newer show in Seth’s animation style: American Dad! and the opportunity to direct feature films like Ted and A Million Ways to Die in the West. Just developing one show is a massive undertaking. Having the chance to work with, develop, and influence the animation styles of 3 primetime shows is just plain incredible.

3. Gitanjali Rao Gitanjali Rao is a Bachelor of Fine Art from Sir J.J.Institute of Applied Art, Bombay, India. She learnt Animation and film making on the job. She started her animation career in the year 2006 with the film, ‘ Printed Rainbow ’. It has won many awards like Small Golden Rail, the Young Critics Award . The films have also won the Golden Conch for Best Animation Film at the Mumbai International Film Festival in the year 2006. Her four independently produced animated shorts, Blue, Orange, Printed Rainbow, Chai and True Love Story have been to over 150 International film festivals and received more than 30 awards.  Her body of work includes animated commercials, pre-production for animated features, logo-motions, as well as graphic novels and illustrated stories. She is not only an animator but also an actor, filmmaker.

4. Kireet Khurana Kireet Khurana is an Indian filmmaker, story-teller and ad film director. . He is an Indian filmmaker, story-teller and ad film direct. He graduated from  Sheridan College  in Canada with high-honors. After graduating, he founded the production house Climb Media, and later its animation wing, 2nz Animation Co., where he serves as creative head . He is the creative head at  2nz Animation Co.  He directed India's first film combining live-action and 3D animation called  Toonpur Ka Super Hero , starring Ajay Devgan  and  Kajol . His other notable animation works include  Detective Naani ,  and  Adventures of Chhota Birbal.  He has produced many award-winning public service campaigns.  Komal , a film on child sexual abuse, won the FICCI Best Animated Frames (BAF) Award in 2014.  Sisters , a film on child marriage, won the Best Public Service and Social Film awards at the INFOCOM-ASSOCHAM EME Awards in 2013.

5. Chuck Jones  Jones is an American animated filmmaker and cartoonist,  He’s an infamous animator who directed most of the well-known Warner Brothers cartoons during the 50s. Chuck’s work included  a lot  of crazy faces, movements, poses, and general wacky antics that we’ve all come to associate as  tropes  within cartoons. Jones joined  Leon Schlesinger Productions , the independent studio that produced  Looney Tunes and  Merrie Melodies  for  Warner Bros. , in 1933 as an assistant animator. In 1935, he was promoted to animator and assigned to work with a new Schlesinger directo r. T he crazy part about Chuck’s work is how well it holds up decades later. Even as an adult you can watch clips like  Pronoun Trouble  and laugh out loud. That’s not easy to do.

6.   Ishu Patel   I shu Patel is an animation film director/producer and educator, whose films have received theatrical and television distribution worldwide. The famous animator graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda During his twenty-five years at the National Film Board of Canada he developed animation techniques and styles to support his themes and vision. In his film  Perspectrum ,  he adapted the Norman McLaren technique of multiple passes and variable exposures. He then developed the under-lit pin hole technique with multiple passes for the film  Paradise.  He has won many international awards include the British Academy Award, two Oscar nominations, two Grand Prix and the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Patel developed innovative animation techniques to enhance his stories and visuals,. He continues photography today travelling with his Digital Leica M9 through the quickly changing countries of Asia: India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and China.

7. Ollie Johnston The Famous Disney animator Ollie Johnston was one of Disney’s original  nine old men who helped to refine the elegance and beauty we see in Disney’s early films. e was an animator at  Walt Disney Studios  from  1935  to  1978 , and became a directing animator beginning with  Pinocchio , released in  1940 . He contributed to most Disney animated features, including  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ,  Fantasia , and  Bambi . His last full work for Disney came with  The Rescuers , in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat  Rufus . Ollie is also the oldest of the bunch who lived until 96 years old. His life is one that’s far more open than other animators since he was featured in a documentary along with his fellow Disney employee Frank Thomas. It’s a 1995 film called  Frank and Ollie and it covers a lot of their contributions to the animation world.

8. Hayao Miyazaki The famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki has animated and directed some of the most influential films in the anime art style. After having completed studies in  economics  at Gakushūin University,  Tokyo , in 1963, he took a position as an entry-level animator at Tōei Animation. Miyazaki’s individual style became more apparent in  Kaze no tani no Naushika  ( Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ), a monthly  manga  (Japanese cartoon) strip he wrote for  Animage  magazine. He’s the co-founder of Studio Ghibli and has produced over 50% of Japan’s  highest grossing anime films . He has done many films like Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. They focus on a lot of fantasy elements and work to bring ideas to life that you just won’t find in other animated films. In 2015 he received an honorary Oscar from the  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. .

9. Vanitha Rangaraju Vanitha Rangaraju Ramanan is an Indian animator who graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli. She pursued her masters from the University of Texas at Austin. After that, she did her internship from the Industrial Light & Magic in 1998. Since then she has been working with the DreamWorks Animation. Some of the noticeable movies where she has contributed as an animator are  Shrek 2, Madagascar, Shrek the Third,  The Boss Baby , Madagascar: Escape to Africa and Puss in Boots. She was also part of TV series such as Dragons: Riders of Berk, Scared Shrekless .

10. Atsuko Ishizuka  Atsuko studied graphic design on Aichi Prefecture University of the Arts. While there, she was prompted to do an arts project and chose to do an animated video because it would allow her to combine her two areas of interest. In this way, she entered the animation world not attempting to secure a career, but to make art for art's sake. The famous animator was a director for  Supernatural: The Animation. .  She is also known for other anime such as No Game, No Life and The Pet Girl of Sakurasou . During her education at the art school, Ishizuka made a number of short animated films for her own enjoyment, often set to music. One of these films, Gravitation, which was later featured at the 2005 Tehran International Short Film Festival, caught the attention of both the Japanese broadcasting giant NHK and Madhouse.  in 2004, she rose through the ranks for her first professional film, Tsuki no Waltz (The Moon Waltz).

11. Eric Goldberg Eric Allen Goldberg  is a supervising animator, writer, director, and storyboard artist at  Walt Disney Animation Studios . One of the lesser-known yet still wildly popular Disney animators. It seems like an oxymoron to say he’s not well known, yet also popular. But Goldberg is featured in a lot of behind-the-scenes clips along with some  featured interviews  discussing how he animates. His work for Disney has changed a lot over his career as the company moved away from 2D films to focus  solely on 3D . But the fundamentals of animation always remain the same. That’s the beauty of Goldberg’s work. He is most notable for animating characters such as  Genie ,  Phil , and  Louis the alligator. He was recently the supervising animator for  Rabbit  in the  2011   Winnie the Pooh  film. He is also one of the directors of the  1995  Disney film  Pocahontas  (along with  Mike Gabriel ).  

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