Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton is an Academy Award-nominated American animator and director. Known as the king of indie animation, he has made seven animated features, all carefully hand-drawn. The latest, Slide, premiered at Annecy, 2023. He is very well known for his animated shorts. Plympton’s movies have won him such a loyal following that the cable channel Shorts HD bought the rights to his entire library and set up a Bill Plympton channel on iTunes. A collection of more than 180 Plympton items is held at the Academy Film Archive.