Nancy Beiman

Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, animator, author and comic strip creator. She attended the Character Animation program at CalArts.

Animation In 1986, Beiman cofounded Caged Beagle Productions with business partner Dean Yeagle. She then moved to Berlin, Germany where she directed and animated for Film Productions. She was an animator on Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988). In 1989, she was a supervising animator at Steven Spielberg's Amblin' studio in London animating Miss Kitty in the feature film An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

Beiman animated Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Winnie the Pooh for many Disney projects beginning in 1982. She joined the Walt Disney Company full time as a supervising animator and development artist for A Goofy Movie (1995), Hercules (1997), Treasure Planet (2002), Tarzan II (2005).

Teaching Beiman taught storyboard at Sheridan College's Animation department in Canada from 2008 to 2018. Beiman previously taught animation at Savannah College of Art and Design, and taught animation, character design, layout, storyboard and gesture drawing at Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film & Animation from 2004 to 2008. and Prepare to Board!. In 2022, she published a book of autobiographical comics about her life during COVID, How I Finally Got to Live a Cat's Life: A Cartoon Diary 2020-2021.

Awards In 1984 she was awarded with the NCS Division Award in the field of Feature Animation. In 2000, she was nominated the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production. Beiman was also awarded a Golden Pencil for outstanding teaching at the 2D Or Not 2D Animation Festival in 2007.