Will Finn | |
Occupation: | Animator, film director, storyboard artist, voice actor |
Education: | Art Institute of Pittsburgh |
Yearsactive: | 1974–present |
Will Finn is an American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and director.
His work in animation includes characters from Disney, Warner Bros., DreamWorks, and Don Bluth films such as The Secret of NIMH, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, and Pocahontas. Finn animated such characters as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Iago in Aladdin, and Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Finn wrote and directed Home on the Range and voiced the character of Hollywood Fish in Chicken Little. In 2006, Finn directed the animated short Hammy's Boomerang Adventure, a spin-off of Over the Hedge.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Year | Title | Credits | Characters | |
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1979 | Banjo the Woodpile Cat (TV Short) | Special Thanks | ||
1982 | The Secret of NIMH | Animator / Story Adaptation | ||
1983 | Dragon's Lair (Video Game) | Animator | ||
1984 | Space Ace (Video Game) | Voice / Animator | Dexter (voice)[5] | |
1987 | Sport Goofy in Soccermania (Short) | Animator | ||
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | Animator | |||
1988 | Oliver & Company | Character Animator | ||
1988–1989 | Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters (TV Series) | Storyboard Artist - 33 Episodes | ||
1989 | The Little Mermaid | Character Animator | ||
1990 | Happily Ever After | Model Designer / Storyboard Artist / Animator | ||
Tiny Toon Adventures (TV Series) | Storyboard Artist - 3 Episodes / Model Designer - 4 Episodes | |||
The Rescuers Down Under | Storyboard Artist / Character Animator | |||
1991 | (Video Game) | Voice / Animator | Gatekeeper (voice) | |
Beauty and the Beast | Supervising Animator | Cogsworth | ||
1992 | Aladdin | Supervising Animator | Iago | |
1994 | The Return of Jafar (Video) | Storyboard | ||
Aladdin (TV Series) | Character Designer - 1 Episode | |||
Chariots of Fur (Short) | Animator | |||
1995 | A Goofy Movie | Character Designer | ||
Pocahontas | Visual Development / Character Designer / Additional Story Development | |||
Carrotblanca (Short) | Character Animator | |||
1996 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Artistic Supervisor: Story / Additional Screenplay Material / Supervising Animator | Laverne | |
Quack Pack (TV Series) | Supervising Animator - 1 Episode | |||
1997 | Pullet Surprise (Short) | Additional Animator | ||
2000 | The Road to El Dorado | Additional Sequences | ||
2001 | Clerks (TV Series) | Storyboard Revisionist - 1 Episode | ||
2004 | Home on the Range | Written & Directed by / Story | ||
A Dairy Tale (Video short) | Director | |||
2004-2005 | Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (TV Series) | Storyboard Artist - 4 Episodes | ||
Chicken Little | Voice | Hollywood Fish (voice) | ||
2006 | Over the Hedge | Storyboard Artist | ||
Hammy's Boomerang Adventure (Video short) | Director | |||
My Life as a Teenage Robot (TV Series) | Written by - 2 Episodes | |||
2006–2007 | Storyboard Artist - 2 Episodes | |||
2007 | Shrek the Halls (TV Short) | Additional Story Artist | ||
2008 | Sita Sings the Blues | Donor | ||
Additional Story Artist | ||||
2009 | Astro Boy | Storyboard Artist | ||
2010 | Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (Video) | Additional Story Artist | ||
2011 | YooHoo & Friends (TV Series) | Storyboard Artist - 3 Episodes | ||
The Looney Tunes Show (TV Series) | Storyboard Artist - 3 Episodes | |||
(Video short) | Additional Animator: Duncan Studio Production | |||
2013 | Director | |||
Free Birds | Storyboard Artist | |||
2016 | The Angry Birds Movie | Additional Story Artist | ||
It's Your Birthday (Short) | Animated & Directed by | |||
2016–2017 | The Tom and Jerry Show (TV Series) | Storyboard Artist - 3 Episodes / Story - 1 Episode | ||
2017 | Rock Dog | Voice / Storyboard Artist / Additional Story Material | Floyd / Carl (voice) | |
2018 | Animal Crackers | Storyboard Artist | ||
2021 | Tom and Jerry in New York | Story - 13 episodes | ||
2022 | Story | |||
2022 | Storyboard Artist | |||
2022 | Tom and Jerry Time | Director | ||
2023 | Once Upon a Studio (Short) | Animator | [6] |