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Jacques Muller was a French animator who worked on many animated films during the Second Golden Age of Animation including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Illusionist, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Space Jam and The Emperor's New Groove. Muller was born in France but spent much of his career working in the United Kingdom and the United States, working for studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., Amblin and ILM. He died in November 2018 following heart complications.
Jacques Muller was born on August 13, 1956 in Saint-Aignan, Loir-et-Cher, France.
Muller began his animation career in France and Australia, moving to London in September 1987 to work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which was crewing up in Camden Town in North London. He began work as assistant animator to Phil Nibbelink, under animation director Richard Williams, described by Muller as "extremely picky...and rightly so" about the standard of animation done at the studio. Later, frustrated with his assistant status, Muller completed a lengthy animation test, and was promoted to animator by Williams: "Jacques, pick up your things and follow me: you are an animator".
In January 1989 Muller joined the Walt Disney Studio in Glendale, California, working in a former warehouse building on Airway, the former site of the Glendale Airport. Muller began work on the Roger Rabbit short film Tummy Trouble, as the studio prepared for work on Beauty and the Beast.
Later, Muller worked on The Rescuers Down Under, where he also lent his voice to the character of Francois the Cockroach.[4] However, Muller was unhappy at the working conditions at the Disney Airway Building in Glendale, which lacked natural light. As a result, he left the Disney Studio to return to France, starting a new contract as character art manager for Disney in Paris, a move which he described as "the biggest mistake of my professional life".
Muller was the author of the book 40 Years of Animated Cartoons, published by Partridge Publishing in Singapore, on 19 April 2018.
Animation department
2010 Héroes verdaderos (key animator)
2010 The Illusionist (animator)
2005 Kronk's New Groove (Video) (animator: Toon City)
2000 The Emperor's New Groove (Video Game) (animator)
2000 The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (animatic artist) / (animator)
1999 How to Haunt a House (Short) (animator)
1999 The King and I (character animator)
1998 Small Soldiers (animator)
1998 Quest for Camelot (animator: United States)
1997 Cave Kids (TV Series) (animator - 2 episodes)
1996 Space Jam (animator)
1995 The Pebble and the Penguin (additional character animator - uncredited)
1994 Thumbelina (additional character animator)
1993 We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (animator)
1990 The Rescuers Down Under (character animator)
1989 Paula Abdul: Opposites Attract (Video short) (animator)
1989 Tummy Trouble (Short) (animator)
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (animator)
1987 Pound Puppies (TV Series) (animator - 13 episodes)
1987 Dot and the Smugglers (animation director)
1985 Dot and the Koala (animator) / (layout artist)
1984 Pink Panther and Sons (TV Series) (layout artist - 1984)
1984 ABC Weekend Specials (TV Series) (animator - 1 episode)
- The Bunjee Venture (1984) ... (animator)
1984 The Old Curiosity Shop (animator)
1983 Lucky Luke (TV Series) (animator - uncredited)
1983 David Copperfield (TV Movie) (animator)
1983 Great Expectations (TV Movie) (animator)
1983 Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (TV Movie) (animator)
1983 Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (animator - uncredited)
1983 Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (animator)
1982/II A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) (animator)
Art department (2 credits)
1995 Littlest Pet Shop (TV Series) (storyboard artist - 1995)
1978 Once Upon a Time... Man (TV Series) (storyboard artist - 26 episodes)
Visual effects (1 credit) 1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (character animator: ILM
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