One of the main British Animation teams, John Hardwick and Bob Bura, were the main animators in many early British TV shows, and are famous for their work on the Trumptonshire trilogy.

In 2009, following the death of former Walt Disney Feature Animation Chairman, Roy E. Disney, the building was renamed and rededicated in his honor by The Walt Disney Company's president and CEO, Bob Iger.

* There are two references in the episode " Wayne the Zebra ": A Chicken Run-style chicken is rejected during the auditions ( with Bad Bob making a comment regarding the recent popularity of chickens, referring to the film's success ), and Bad Bob consults the Aardman book Cracking Animation ( ISBN 0-500-28168-8, published in the US as Creating 3-D Animation ).

Animation historian Milton Gray details a long rivalry between fellow animator and former friend Chuck Jones and Clampett in an essay titled " Bob Clampett Remembered.

Animation was provided by Bonsall's Creston Studios, also known as " TV Spots, Inc .", supervised by Bob Ganon and Gerald Ray.

* Animation Director: Bob Bemiller

* Animation: Tom Ray, Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Bob Bransford

* Animation: Don Williams, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, LaVerne Harding

Hagans has worked extensively with producer and saxophonist Bob Belden on a variety of recordings and live performances, including their ongoing Animation / Imagination project.

* Animation: Barry Hales, Simon ( Jiminy ) Turner, Stephen Hales, Billy Allison, Kevin Baldwin, Anna Brockett, Paul Chung, Arthur De Cloedt, Terry Dormer, Bob Godfrey, Tony Guy, Colin Hughes, Arthur Humberstone, Willard Kitchen, Charles MacRae, Neil Salmon, Kim Stephenson, Paul Stone, Glenn Whiting, Rob Newman

* Animation Producers Studios: Bob Ganon, Sam Nicholson, Gerald Ray

* Animation: Ed Barge, Emil Carle, Izzy Ellis, John Garling, Maria Jursic, Carlo Vinci, Jerry Hathcock, Bob Maxfield, Ken Muse, Morey Reden, Veve Risto.

" Animation has always been the heart and soul of the Walt Disney Company and it is wonderful to see Bob Iger and the company embraces that heritage by bringing the outstanding animation talent of the Pixar team back into the fold.

* Animation Directors: Jay Sarbry, Frank Andrina, Oliver " Lefty " Callahan, John Drake, Bob Goe, Grzegorz Handzlik, Erna Kaluza, Les Kaluza, Rick Leon, Don Patterson, Bill Perkins, Joanna Romersa, Paul Sommers, Stanislaw Szszepanik, Phil Vallentin, Tim Walker

Bob Kurtz, founder of Kurtz & Friends Animation, is a director, producer, artist, and designer who primarily works in films and TV commercials.

* Animation: Frank Andrina, Bob Goe, Bob Matz, Dale Case, Manny Gould, Murray McClellan, Herman Cohen, Lee Halpern, Morey Redan, Jim Davis, Bill Hutten, Ed Soloman, Xenia Demattia, Art Leonardi, Ken Southworth, John Garling, Ed Love, Don Williams

COSI has also hosted EINSTEIN, An Exhibition on the Man and his Science ( 2007 ), Animation featuring Cartoon Network ( 2007 ), Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics ( 2007 ), Bob the Builder: Project Build It ( 2007 ), Goosebumps!

* Animation by Sam Jaimes, Al Pabian, Hank Smith, Larry Leichliter, Bill Littlejohn, Ed Newmann, Bob Carlson, Hank Tucker, Dale Baer, Joe Roman, Spencer Peel, Larry Huber, Herman Cohen, Bob Matz, Jeff Hall, Don Lusk, Rod Scribner, Segtio Bertolli, Leslie Margolin, Patricia Joy, Warren Batchelder, Manuel Perez, Emery Hawkins, Terrence Lennon, Richard Thompson, Charles McKimson, Utit Choomuang, Margaret Nichols, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ray Patterson, Ed Barge, Michael Lah, Al Grandmain

* Ragnarok The Animation ( Herman )

In 2005, it was reported that Fox Animation would make a live action / animated feature film, with Chris Meledandri and John Cohen producing it.

Founded in 1970, the company took its name from an old mining town in northern Nova Scotia, near where founding members JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow, developed The Red Horse Animation, the group's first original performance piece.

* Ed Catmull's visit to CalArts ' Character Animation Program ( Fall ' 04 )

Many of the original CGL team now forms the elite of the CG and computer world with members going on to Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, Cisco, NVIDIA and others, including Pixar President Ed Catmull, Pixar co-founder and Microsoft Graphics Fellow Alvy Ray Smith, Pixar co-founder Ralph Guggenheim, Walt Disney Feature Animation Chief Scientist Lance Williams, Dreamworks Animator Hank Grebe, Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark ( James H. Clark ), Microsoft Graphics Fellow Jim Blinn, Thad Beier, Andrew Glassner and Tom Brigham.

* Animation: George Goepper, George Rowley, Don Patterson, Irv Spence, Sam Jaimes, George Kreisl, Jerry Hathcock, Ed Barge, Dick Lundy, Ken Muse, Dennis Sill, Ron Campbell

His series Ed, Edd n Eddy received several awards and nominations ; For his work on the series, Antonucci won a Reuben Award for Best Television Animation in 1999 and a Leo Award for Best Director in an Animated Production or Series in 2000.

As of May 2006, Ed Catmull serves as president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, and John Lasseter serves as the studios ' Chief Creative Officer.

On June 22, 2007, management of DisneyToon Studios was turned over to the control of Ed Catmull and John Lasseter under the banner of the recently reorganized and renamed Feature Animation studio, now called Walt Disney Animation Studios.

* Kaboom: Explosive Animation, Ed.

At the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, the episode " My Musical " was nominated for five awards in four categories: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series ( Will Mackenzie ), Outstanding Music Direction ( Jan Stevens ) and Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (" Everything Comes Down to Poo " and " Guy Love "); while sharing the award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series ( Half-Hour ) And Animation ( Joe Foglia, Peter J. Nusbaum, and John W. Cook II ) with Entourage.

He returned to Yaroslavl in Russia to work on his latest film, My Love, which was finished in spring 2006 after three years ' work and had its premiere at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival on August 27, where it won the Audience Prize and the Special International Jury Prize.

* 2006 — 11th Hiroshima International Animation Festival: My Love, " Audience Prize " and " Special International Jury Prize "

* 2006 — International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film: My Love, " FIPRESCI Prize for Best Animation "

* 2006 — Animation Show of Shows ; My Love

Nippon Animation of Japan released Ai Shoujo Pollyanna Monogatari ( The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love ), a fifty-one episode anime TV series that made up the 1986 installment of the studio's World Masterpiece Theater, and had famous singer Mitsuko Horie playing the role of Pollyanna.

Lineup: John Butler Trio, Grinspoon, Stereo MC's, Xavier Rudd, Scribe, The Datsuns, Cog, Butterfingers, DJ Format, The Butterfly Effect, The Herd, Clare Bowditch & the Feeding Set, Sonic Animation, The Panics, Epicure, Airbourne, The Flairz, MO Black, The Morning Birds, Willow, Seven, The Restless, Custom Kings, Muph & Plutonic, British India, Ben Quin, Love Outside Andromeda, Trial Kennedy, Bodyjar, Art of Fighting, Gyroscope, Finkel has Fallen, Irix, Daytime, CWQ, N ' FA ( 1200 Techniques ) MC Trey & Maya Jupiter, Kid Confucius, Treva Whateva, Andy Smith, Tom Middleton, Bent DJ's, DJ Charlie Love, Lui, Daybreak Giants, MO Black, Cannon, Emdee, Gersey, Matt McLean vs Soren, Hermitude, Evil Nine, Spikey Tee, DJ Hype & MC Daddy Earl, Deep Child

The Frank G. Wells building was specifically designed for Walt Disney Television Animation, and the division has offices located on the third floor.

On the Animation Podcast, Disney director John Musker discussed Frank Thomas, and mentioned that at one time, fellow animation great Chuck Jones had christened Thomas the " Laurence Olivier of animators.

Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life ( ISBN 0-7868-6070-7 ), 1981, is an acclaimed book by two of Disney's Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas.

Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne, John Gielgud, and Frank Welker, with the singing voices of Céline Dion, Bryan White, and Andrea Corr.

Out of all the Nine Old Men, Frank and Ollie were the most known for their mentor / apprentice relationships, and the sharing of their knowledge about creating characters, most notably as transcribed through Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life.

In Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston wrote in their book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, they said, Through the entire thirties, the entire Effects Department consisted of only two men: Ugo D ' Orsi, a straightforward, stubborn, and dedicated Italian, and Cy Young ... quiet and sensitive ... who loved to play the bass fiddle as a hobby.

The Frank G. Wells building was specifically designed for Television Animation, and has a film reel and filmstrip across the front of the building facing Team Disney Burbank across the parking lot.

Television Animation is now split between the Frank G. Wells Building ( third floor ), and its first floor location in Glendale at the Sonora Building.