Director, Pixar Animation Studios

James Ford Murphy joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1996. He began working as an animator on 鈥淎 Bug鈥檚 Life,鈥� 鈥淭oy Story 2,鈥� and the Academy Award庐-winning features, 鈥淢onsters, Inc.,鈥� 鈥淔inding Nemo,鈥� 鈥淭he Incredibles,鈥� and 鈥淩atatouille.鈥� Murphy served as supervising animator for the Academy Award庐-winning short film, 鈥淔or the Birds,鈥� and was the directing animator on the Golden Globe庐-winning feature, 鈥淐ars.鈥� For the next five years, Murphy acted as the Director of Creative Artists, where he oversaw Animation, Art, and Story across the studio. Most recently, Murphy made his directing debut with the short film, 鈥淟AVA,鈥� which will screen in front of the Disney鈥�Pixar feature film, 鈥淚nside Out,鈥� in 2015.

Prior to Pixar, Murphy worked as Animation Director at Sierra-On-Line and as Animator/Director at Calabash Animation where he animated several commercials, including Little Caesar鈥檚 鈥淧izza, Pizza鈥� series. He also was an Art Director at Jockey International where he was responsible for all print advertising for Jockey underwear.

James earned a BA in Journalism at 糖心传媒. He is a self-taught artist and animator from Detroit, Michigan.