Phil Roman Animation

Scenes (PRESUMABLY) animated by animator/director/producer Philip “Phil” Roman (Born December 21, 1930). While best regarded as a director and founder of Film Roman, Phil Roman has a long history of animating for several industry legends such as Chuck Jones, Bill Melendez and Hawley Pratt. Roman has a very gentle and appealing style of animation. He uses very bold lead-ins to give his work a sharp sense of pop. Roman adds subtle bits of secondary and easing that gives even his dialogue scenes total charm. During his years at MGM, Roman was an assistant animator to Ben Washam. So some of Benny’s animation traits carry over to Roman’s work. Music: “Runaway” - Blue Wednesday & Magnus Klausen (2021) “Cuddlin” - Pandrezz (2019) (Note: This reel is a collection of historian confirmations and best-estimated guessing. Sources are listed below. Feel free to send corrections my way if you notice anything wrong. Unless backed-up by a provided source or historian confirmation, clips will be notified with a “presumed” tag.) Special Thanks to ibcf, WHYx3, eutychus (IAD), Charles Brubaker, and Devon Baxter for help with footage and corrections. Thank you as well to the Television Academy Foundation and Cartoon Research for the excellent research used in the making of this reel. Sources: -2002 Television Academy Foundation Interview with Phil Roman -Animators Draft for How the Grinch Stole Christmas -Animator Draft for 1967 Curad Ad -Audio Commentary for How the Grinch Stole Christmas -”The Wizard of ID” Article by Charles Brubaker