James Ford Murphy is the head of animation at Pixar Animation Studios. He served as an animator on A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. He also served as directing animator for Cars and a supervising animator for the short films For the Birds and Mater and the Ghostlight. He directed the 2014 Pixar short film Lava, and the 2017 short film Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool.
Filmography[]
- A Bug's Life (1998): additional character designer, animator
- Toy Story 2 (1999): animator
- For the Birds (2000): supervising animator
- Monsters, Inc. (2001): animator
- Mike's New Car (2002): animator
- Finding Nemo (2003): animator
- The Incredibles (2004): animator
- Cars (2006): directing animator, animation characters developer
- Mater and the Ghostlight (2006): supervising animator
- Ratatouille (2007): animator
- WALL•E (2008): Pixar Studio Team - Production Resources
- Up (2009): Pixar Studio Team - Production Resources
- Toy Story 3 (2010): fix & additional animator, Pixar Studio Team - Production Resources
- La Luna (2011): animator
- Brave (2012): Pixar Studio Team - Film Production Resources
- Lava (2014): director, writer, composer, lyricist
- Cars 3 (2017): Pixar Studio Team - Promotional Animation
- Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool (2017): director, writer
- Toy Story 4 (2019): Pixar Studio Team - Custom Animation Production
- Onward (2020): Pixar Studio Team - Custom Animation Production
- Pixar Popcorn (2021):
- Unparalleled Parking: director
- Luca (2021): Pixar Studio Team - Custom Animation Production
- Turning Red (2022): Pixar Studio Team - Parks & Promo
- Lightyear (2022): Pixar Studio Team - Parks & Promo
- Elemental (2023): Pixar Studio Team - Parks & Promo
- Inside Out 2 (2024): Pixar Studio Team - Parks & Promo