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James
F. Murphy, Jour '86
 At
Marquette, Jim Murphy was a cartoonist for the Marquette Tribune
and creator of the comic strip “Murphy’s Law.”
Today
he’s a directing animator at Pixar Animation Studios and
chair of the animation department. He has animated on “A
Bug’s Life”; “Toy Story 2”; “Monsters,
Inc.”; “Finding Nemo”; “The Incredibles”;
and “Cars,” which will be released on June 9th. He
was also part of the team that made “For the Birds,” which
won an Academy Award in 2001.
After Marquette,
Jim worked as an art director for Jockey International and
a freelance illustrator before landing a job at Calabash Animation
in Chicago. It was at Calabash where Jim learned traditional
animation by working on commercials for clients like Little
Caesars,
General Mills and Hallmark.
Jim attributes a
lot of his success and unique artistic approach to Marquette,
where he learned how to find the essential components of a
story and assemble them in a way that communicates its essence
in an
informative and entertaining way.
Jim says that
he’s the only animator at Pixar who can claim to be a “rugby
playing, self-taught artist with a journalism degree who lived
with Chris Farley and met his wife (Kathy Karas, Arts ’88)
at Marquette.”
Jim and Kathy live in Sonoma,
Calif., with their children William, Jack and Louise.
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