Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist. he specialises in traditional animation, only using digital if it enhances the narrative. He has worked on such films as Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Howls Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Ponyo
Before he became an animation god he had his humble beginnings in Toei Animation, Nippon Animation, Telecom Animation Film/Tokyo Movie Shinsha after that he went on to co-found Studio Ghibli and work on subsequent film Laputa, Castle in the Sky in 1986.
Ron Clements
Ron Clements is an American animation director
, screenwriter and producer. He specialises in Tradigital animation with such films as Treasure Planet, Princess and the Frog and Moana using a blend of both traditional and CG animation.
He began his career as an animator for Hanna-Barbera (now Cartoon Network)
he was accepted into Disney's Talent Development Program. After that he did a two-year apprenticeship with famed animator Frank Thomas. after that he was a s
upervising animator in classic Disney films such as Peter Pan(1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), and The Aristocats (1970)
Tomm Moore
In 1998, Moore co-founded the Cartoon Saloon
animation studio with Paul Young
and Nora Twomey.
In November 2015, Moore announced on his tumblr blog and Facebook that his next animated feature film from Cartoon Saloon will be Wolfwalkers, to be co-directed with Ross Stewart.
He has drawn two Irish language graphic novels, An Sclábhaí ("the slave", 2001) and An Teachtaire ("the messenger", 2003), telling the story of St. Patrick. Both were written by Colmán Ó Raghallaigh and published in Ireland by Cló Mhaigh Eo He has also created a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of The Secret of Kells, published in French as Brendan et le secret de Kells.
Moore specialists in Tradrigital animation. Cartoon saloon uses an animation program called TVPaint
.
Lotte Reiniger
She was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.
Silhouette animation is animation in which the characters are only visible as black silhouettes. This is usually accomplished by back lighting articulated cardboard cut-outs, though other methods exist.
She dealt mostly with fairy tales however her best known films are
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926 is based of 1001 Nights. It is also worth noting that Disneys Aladin is also based of the same story.
She is also known for having devised a predecessor to the first multi plane camera. She made more than 40 films, all using her invention.
She started off by animating wooden rats and created the animated inter titles for
Pied Piper of Hamelin.
The success of this work got her admitted into the Institut für
Kulturforschung (Institute for Cultural Research), an experimental
animation and shortfilm studio.
Tissa David
Thérèse "Tissa" David was a Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years. She was one of the pioneering women in animation, a field which had been dominated by male animators Tissa was inspired to become an animator after watching Walt Disney’s
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as a teenager in 1938. After seeing an ad in the local newspaper in which a local animation studio was looking for artists. Tissa
applied for the job, got hired, and subsequently dropped out of school to
become an assistant animator at Magyar Film Irod.
During her time at Magyar Film Irod she helped produce many commercials. When Image’s studio closed, Tissa became unemployed for seven months
until she was hired as an assistant animator at La Come`te Studio, which
was owned by Paul Grimault, and there animated American commercials.
Joanna Quinn
Quinn's first film
Girls Night Out was completed in 1987 and won three awards at the Annecy Film Festival.
This film introduced the anti-heroine character of Beryl and follows
her antics when she goes to see a male stripper. Beryl appeared in
Quinn's next film
Body Beautiful (1990) in this film she is the factory union rep and she had to deal with a macho workmate Vince, voiced by Rob Brydon. In Quinn's multi award-winning film
Dreams and Desires- Family Ties (2006), Beryl becomes obsessed with film making and is asked to video a friend's wedding - with disastrous consequences.
She is probably most noiterble for her Reams and Desires- Family Ties .The animation takes on an almost vlogging style as she documents her friends wedding. Its a very interesting perceptive and take on animation
