Animation

It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company.

Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby pictures are created or manipulated and then played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images.

Bambi is a 1942 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods.

Watership Down is a 1978 British animated adventure drama film, written, produced, and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the 1972 novel by Richard Adams.

Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète Sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. 'The Wild Planet') is a 1973 surrealist adult animated science fiction art film directed by René Laloux.

The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 American animated musical drama film directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells, and written by Philip LaZebnik.

was a German commercial animator

the first device to show moving images

Studio Ghibli Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社スタジオジブリ, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi) is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo.

Clito "Clyde" Geronimi (June 12, 1901, April 24, 1989), known as Gerry, was an Italian-American animation director.

Wilfred Emmons Jackson (January 24, 1906, August 7, 1988) was an American animator, musical arranger and director best known for his work with Walt Disney Productions.

Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909, May 22, 1985), also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a German-American animator, director and producer.

Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor.

Ronald Francis Clements (born April 25, 1953) is an American animator and filmmaker.

John Edward Musker (born November 8, 1953) is an American animator and filmmaker.

John Alan Lasseter ( LASS-ə-tər; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator.

Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is an English filmmaker, animator, and voice actor who created Wallace & Gromit, Creature Comforts, Chicken Run, and Shaun the Sheep.

Thomas "Tomm" Moore (born 7 January 1977) is an Irish filmmaker, animator, illustrator and comics artist.

Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker and animator.

Dean Allan DeBlois ( də-BLWAH; born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker and animator.

Nora Twomey (born 31 October 1971) is an Irish animator, director, screenwriter, producer and voice actress.

Satoshi Kon (今 敏, Kon Satoshi; October 12, 1963, August 24, 2010) was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido, and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA).

Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Rich Moore (born 1962 or 1963) is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter, producer and voice actor.

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor.

Peter Hans Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American filmmaker and animator.

Robert Ralph Minkoff (born August 11, 1962) is an American director, animator, and producer.

Joseph Roland Barbera ( bar-BAIR-ə; Italian: [barˈbɛːra]; March 24, 1911, December 18, 2006) was an American animator and cartoonist.

Kevin Lima (born June 12, 1962) is an American film director, voice actor and animator who has directed A Goofy Movie (1995), Tarzan (1999), 102 Dalmatians (2000), and Enchanted (2007).

Donald Virgil Bluth ( BLOOTH; born September 13, 1937) is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author.

William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910, March 22, 2001) was an American animator, voice actor, and musician.

Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守, Hosoda Mamoru; born September 19, 1967) is a Japanese filmmaker and animator.

John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor.

Arthur Christopher Stevens (May 1, 1915, May 22, 2007) was an American animator, director and producer for Walt Disney Productions.

Eric Darnell (born 1961) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, screenwriter, songwriter and occasional voice actor best known for co-directing Antz with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing and co-writing Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted with Tom McGrath, as well as the spin off Penguins of Madagascar (2014) with Simon J. Smith.

Thomas McGrath is an American voice actor and animator.

Kirk Wise is an American film director, animator and screenwriter best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Duke Johnson is an American film director who specializes in stop-motion animation.

Mike Gabriel (born November 5, 1954) is an American animator and film director, best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios and as co-director of the Disney animated films The Rescuers Down Under (1990) and Pocahontas (1995).

Travis Andrew Knight (born September 13, 1973) is an American filmmaker, animator, and former rapper.

Barry Cook is an American film director who has worked in the animated film industry since the late 1970s.

Brenda Chapman (born 1962 or 1963) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and director.

Mark Dindal is an American filmmaker, effects animator and voice actor.

Jared Bush (born June 12, 1974) is an American filmmaker serving as the chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2024.

Robert Persichetti Jr. (born September 28, 1970) is an American filmmaker, animator, and storyboard artist.

Ari Folman (Hebrew: ארי פולמן; born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and film score composer.

Tony Bancroft is an American animator and film director who frequently collaborates with Disney.

Donald Lee Hall (born March 8, 1969) is an American animation film director, voice actor and screenwriter who is best known for directing the films Winnie the Pooh (2011), Big Hero 6 (2014), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Strange World (2022), and co-directing the film Moana (2016) for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Roger Allers (June 29, 1949, January 17, 2026) was an American filmmaker, animator, storyboard artist and playwright.

Lee Edward Unkrich (born August 8, 1967) is an American film director, editor and writer.

Mark Elliott Andrews (born September 12, 1968) is an American filmmaker, animator, and storyboard artist.

Christopher James Buck (born February 24, 1958) is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter known for co-directing Tarzan (1999), Surf's Up (2007) (which was nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Feature), Frozen (2013; which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2014), Frozen II (2019), and Wish (2023).