Nancy Beiman
Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, animator, author and comic strip creator. She attended the Character Animation program at CalArts.
Career
Comic strips
Nancy Beiman's first comic strip FurBabies was accepted by Andrews McMeel Universal on its first submission and can be viewed online on the GoComics site. It first appeared on June 5, 2023, and is updated daily. FurBabies is about a blended family of dogs, cat and human who all speak with one another and deal with issues such as frequency of baths, sibling rivalry, and whether food tastes better when eaten at the table or off the floor. Shawm the Afghan hound is named after an oboe, and is partly based on Beiman's father, who was a professional oboist. Stella the Poodle is based on a cat, while Sirius the puppy and Kate the human child are composites of children Beiman knew in real life.Animation
In 1986, Beiman cofounded Caged Beagle Productions with business partner Dean Yeagle. She then moved to Berlin, Germany where she directed and animated for Film Productions. In 1989, she was a supervising animator at Steven Spielberg's Amblin' studio in London animating Miss Kitty in the feature film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.Beiman animated Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Winnie the Pooh for many Disney projects beginning in 1982. She joined the Walt Disney Company full time as a supervising animator and development artist for A Goofy Movie, Hercules, Treasure Planet, Tarzan II.
Nancy Beiman also animated on the feature film Snoopy: The Musical, and early video game projects for Philips Sidewalk Studios The Crayon Factory and two other CDI that she directed, storyboarded, and co animated.
Her interviews with animation artists appeared in Cartoonist Profiles magazine from 1982 to 1995.