swap_horiz Uli Meyer Alternatives

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Yuriy Norstein

Yuriy Norstein is a prominent Russian animator known for his deeply evocative and experimental films. His work, particul...

Russian Independent Traditional Director

9.6 Brilliant

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Nick Park

Nick Park is a British animator renowned for his pioneering work in stop-motion claymation. His creations, most famously...

British Stop Motion Claymation Aardman

9.4 Excellent

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Richard Williams

Richard Williams is an independent animator celebrated for his meticulous traditional techniques. He directed animation...

Independent Traditional Director Who Framed Roger Rabbit

9.3 Excellent

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Yuriy Norshteyn

Yuriy Norshteyn is a renowned Russian animator known for his deeply personal and experimental short films. His work, suc...

Russian Independent Experimental Legendary

9.3 Excellent

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Michaël Dudok de Wit

Michaël Dudok de Wit is a Dutch animator known for his distinctive, traditional animation style. His work emphasizes pat...

Independent Traditional Dutch Oscar Winner

9.0 Excellent

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Don Hertzfeldt

American independent animator known for his minimalist stick-figure style, whose short film Rejected (2000) earned an Ac...

Independent Experimental Theatrical 2D

8.9 Great

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Gints Zilbalodis

Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis single-handedly created the animated feature Away (2019) and directed Flow (2024), a...

Contemporary Independent Theatrical Cgi

8.5 Great

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Joanna Quinn

Welsh animator Joanna Quinn created the recurring character Beryl in Girls Night Out (1987) and has received multiple BA...

Independent Traditional British Character Based

8.1 Great

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Alison Snowden

Canadian-British animator Alison Snowden won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1994 alongside David Fine...

Independent Female British Short

8.0 Great

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Barry Purves

British stop-motion animator Barry Purves is known for intricately choreographed puppet films including Screen Play (199...

Independent British Stop Motion Puppet

7.9 Good

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Daniel Greaves

British animator Daniel Greaves won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1993 for Manipulation, a self-refe...

Independent Experimental British Short

7.9 Good

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Rémi Chayé

French animation director Rémi Chayé is best known for Long Way North (Tout en haut du monde, 2015), a Franco-Danish fea...

French Contemporary Theatrical 2D

7.8 Good

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Oscar Grillo

Argentine-born British animator and director whose short film Seaside Woman (1980), animated for Paul and Linda McCartne...

Independent Commercial British Festival

7.7 Good

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Run Wrake

British animator Run Wrake was known for darkly comic collage-based films assembled from vintage imagery, most notably R...

Independent Experimental Cutout British

7.7 Good

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Yoni Goodman

Israeli animator who served as animation director on Waltz with Bashir (2008), helping develop the film's distinctive st...

Contemporary Independent Israeli Documentary

7.7 Good

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Tom Sito

American animator who worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation on films including The Little Mermaid (1989) and later aut...

Contemporary Disney Theatrical 2D

7.6 Good

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Ruth Lingford

British animator known for experimental digital works including Death and the Mother (1997) and Pleasures of War (1998),...

Independent Experimental Female British

7.6 Good

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Alison de Vere

British animator Alison de Vere is noted for personal, symbolically rich short films including The Black Dog (1987), whi...

Independent Traditional British Director

7.4 Good

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Dave Borthwick

British animator Dave Borthwick directed The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993), a dark, inventive film combining sto...

Independent Experimental British Stop Motion

7.0 Good

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Cory Edwards

American director known for writing and directing 'Hoodwinked!' (2005), a low-budget computer-animated fairy-tale retell...

Contemporary Independent Theatrical Cgi

5.9 Mediocre