Michael Humphries

Michael Humphries is a background artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Growing up in Tampa, Florida; Humphries moved to Long Beach, California where he refined his artistic abilities all through college. He served as a member of the Army's 1st Air Cavalry Division's Combat Art Team in Vietnam. Upon his return, Michael continued his art education at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he currently teaches.
Humphries professional career began in 1977 as a background artist where he animated shows including Super Friends, The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, Teen Wolf, Pound Puppies, Paw Paws, The Bisketts, The Smurfs, Shirt Tales, Challenge of the Gobots, The Jetsons, Snorks, Galtar and the Golden Lance, CBS Storybreak, and Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters as well as the Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, and Tom & Jerry franchises. While at Disney, he contributed to films like The Great Mouse Detective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rescuers Down Under, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Fantasia 2000 as well as two musical shorts, One by One and the Academy Award® nominated short film The Little Matchgirl. His other film credits include Heidi's Song, My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), Barney's Great Adventure, Clifford's Really Big Movie, The Simpsons Movie, Alpha and Omega, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) and Sony Pictures' first 3D animated movie, Open Season.
Michael resides with his wife and daughter in Studio City, California. In 2020, he released a book entitled Visual Storytelling with Color and Light and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1986 	The Great Mouse Detective 	Background artist
1986 	Adventures of the Gummi Bears 	Additional background stylist
1988 	Who Framed Roger Rabbit 	Additional background animator
1990 	The Rescuers Down Under 	Background artist
1992-1994	The Little Mermaid 	Key layout designerKey background stylistKey background artist
1994 	The Lion King 	Background artist
1996 	The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	Background artist
2000 	Fantasia 2000 	Art director: "Piano Concerto No. 2"
2001 	Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	Additional visual development
2004 	Home on the Range 	Visual development artist
2004 	Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers	Additional storyboard artist (uncredited)
2004 	One by One 	Art director
2006 	The Little Matchgirl 	Art director
2009 	The Princess and the Frog 	Background artist
2017-2018	Star vs. the Forces of Evil 	Background designer
2018 	Ducktales 	Background artist
2018-2019	Big City Greens 	Color supervisorBackground painter
==External links==
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*Humphries' Bio on Disney Fine Art
*The Michael Humphries Gallery
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