Will Finn

Will Finn
Education	Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Occupation(s)	Animator, film director, storyboard artist, voice actor
Years active	1974–present

Will Finn is an American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and director.

Career

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]

Filmography

Year	Title	Credits	Characters
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
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	Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp (Video Game)	Voice / Animator	Gatekeeper (voice)
	Beauty and the Beast	Supervising Animator	Cogsworth
1992	Aladdin		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
	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	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
	Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (Video short)	Additional Animator: Duncan Studio Production
2013	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return	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	Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up!	Story
2022	Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank	Storyboard Artist
2023	Once Upon a Studio (Short)	Animator	[6]

Awards

• In 2005, Finn received a nomination with John Sanford for Directing in an Animated Feature Production Annie Award for Home on the Range.
• In 2013, Finn received a nomination with Daniel St. Pierre for Best Feature Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival for Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

References

1. Will Finn: "Don't Go Looking for a Job in Animation"|Cartoon Brew
2. A Chat with Legendary Animator Will Finn - Vancouver Institute of Media Arts
3. Cogworth, Iago, & Comedic Animation with Will Finn - Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast
4. Beauty and the Beast's Lumiere and Cogsworth Have a Fascinating Real-Life Backstory|Vanity Fair
5. Behind The Voice Actors
6. Zahed, Ramin (October 15, 2023). "'Once Upon a Studio' Directors Reflect on Their Wonderful Disney Centenary Short". Animation Magazine. Archived from the original on November 1, 2023.

External links

• Will Finn's blog
• Will Finn at IMDb