James Ford Murphy


James Ford Murphy is an American animator. He started his career as an art director for Jockey which displaying layouts for the commercials of company’s underwear. And then, he later worked as an animator for commercials including Little Caesars in Calabash animation studio before he left to become an animator for video game, Torin’s Passage and afterwards move to his current company at Pixar. He directed the 2014 short film Lava.

Filmography

Feature films

  • A Bug's Life – additional character designer, animator
  • Toy Story 2 – animator
  • Monsters, Inc. – animator
  • Finding Nemo – animator
  • The Incredibles – animator
  • Cars – directing animator
  • Ratatouille – animator
  • Wall-E – production resources
  • Up – production resources
  • Toy Story 3 – fix and additional animator, production resources
  • Cars 2 – production resources
  • Brave – production resources
  • Cars 3 – promotional animation
  • Toy Story 4 – custom animation production
  • Onward – custom animation production
  • Luca – custom animation production
  • Turning Red – parks and promo
  • Lightyear – parks and promo
  • Elemental – parks and promo
  • Inside Out 2 - parks and promo

    Short films

  • For the Birds – supervising animator
  • Mike's New Car – animator
  • Mater and the Ghostlight – supervising animator
  • Partly Cloudy – special thanks
  • Day & Night – special thanks
  • La Luna – animator
  • Partysaurus Rex – special thanks
  • Lava – director, writer, story, music, ukulele
  • Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool - director, writer

    Documentaries

  • The Making of 'The Incredibles' – himself
  • The Pixar Story – himself

    Video games

  • Torin's Passage – lead animator