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, animatorToy Story 2 – animatorMonsters, Inc. – animatorFinding Nemo – animatorThe Incredibles – animatorCars – directing animatorRatatouille – animatorWall-E – production resourcesUp – production resourcesToy Story 3 – fix and additional animator, production resourcesCars 2 – production resourcesBrave – production resourcesCars 3 – promotional animationToy Story 4 – custom animation production- Onward – custom animation production
- Luca – custom animation productionTurning Red – parks and promo
- Lightyear – parks and promo
- Elemental – parks and promo
- Inside Out 2 - parks and promo
Short films
For the Birds – supervising animatorMike's New Car – animatorMater and the Ghostlight – supervising animatorPartly Cloudy – special thanks- Day & Night – special thanks
- La Luna – animatorPartysaurus Rex – special thanksLava – director, writer, story, music, ukuleleMiss Fritter’s Racing Skoool - director, writer