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Terry Gilliam
American born-British filmmaker, comedian, and actor (born 1940)
Eadweard Muybridge
English-American photographer (1830–1904)
Ray Harryhausen
American animator (1920–2013)
Jan Švankmajer
Czech director, animator and artist (born 1934)
Lotte Reiniger
German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)
Nick Park
British animator and filmmaker (born 1958)
Ladislas Starevich
Polish-Russian stop-motion animator
Yuri Norstein
Soviet film director
Karel Zeman
Czech film director, artist and animator (1910-1989)
Jiří Trnka
Czech animator, illustrator, painter, director, scriptwriter, scenographer, sculptor and university educator (1912-1969)
Walerian Borowczyk
Polish film director (1923–2006)
Norman McLaren
Scottish Canadian animator (1914-1987)
George Pal
Hungarian-American film director (1908—1980)
Peter Lord
British animator
Adam Elliot
Australian animator and director
Roman Kachanov
Soviet animator (1921-1993)
Alexandre Alexeieff
artist, filmmaker, illustrator (1901-1982)
Don Hertzfeldt
American animator and filmmaker
Břetislav Pojar
Czech animator, director and university educator
Ivo Caprino
Norwegian film director (1920–2001)
Garri Bardin
Russian artist
Jan Lenica
Polish graphic designer and cartoonist (1928–2001)
Hermína Týrlová
Czech director and animator (1900–1993)
Ivor Wood
English animator (1932-2004)
Se-ma-for
Se-ma-for was a Polish film and animation studio. Founded in Łódź, Poland in 1947, the company has created many animated cartoons and stop motion animations for young and older audiences. The name, meaning literally Se-ma-phore, is an acronym of Studio Małych Form Filmowych - Studio of Small Film Forms. The studio was shut down in 2018.
Jiří Barta
Czech animator and director (born 1948)
Kōji Yamamura
Japanese independent animator
Kihachirō Kawamoto
Japanese anime director (1925–2010)
Steve Box
British animator and director
David Sproxton
British animator, cinematographer and director
Vladimír Jiránek
Czech illustrator, film director and cartoonist (1938–2012)
Richard Starzak
British animator
Suzie Templeton
British film animator
Grant Munro
Canadian animator and filmmaker (1923–2017)
Stefano Bessoni
Italian filmmaker
Gekidan Inu Curry
Japanese anime artist duo
Stanislav Sokolov
Soviet and Russian director and artist of animated films, screenwriter (*1947)
Alma Duncan
Canadian painter, artist, filmmaker (1917–2004)
Oliver Postgate
British animator, puppeteer and writer (1925-2008)
Hal Hickel
American animator
Sergei Ryabov
Russian animator
Otmar Gutmann
German television producer (1937–1993)
Co Hoedeman
Dutch-Canadian filmmaker (1940-2025)
Evelyn Lambart
Canadian animator and technical director
Wolfgang Lauenstein
German artist
Tadahito Mochinaga
Japanese animator (1919–1999)
Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña
Chilean animators and filmmakers
Will Dyson
Australian illustrator (1880–1938)
Aleksandr Shiryaev
dancer (Mariinsky and Ballets Russes), pioneer of film and animation
Lee Hardcastle
British animator
Barry Purves
English animator, film director and puppet motion screenwriter
Giuliano Cenci
Italian animator (1931-2018)
Ru Kuwahata
Japanese filmmaker
Paul Berry
animator
Patrick Boivin
Canadian filmmaker and animator