Nancy Beiman Named to Hall of Fame
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Before Nancy Beiman found worldwide fame and fortune with her FurBabies comic strip she had a brief (40 years) but renowned career in animation and as a teacher of same.
It is for that last profession that Nancy is among a group being inducted into the Animation Educators’ Forum Hall of Fame for 2026. Jerry Beck at Animation Scoop reports:
The Animation Educators’ Forum (AEF), a non-profit association of teachers and scholars whose focus is the art of animated film, announce this year’s inductees into their Hall of Fame. This virtual hall is dedicated to the artists and scholars whose teaching influenced the history of animation. Each January the Forum announces a new group of names added to the hall.
Jerry Beck’s Nancy Beiman profile:
Nancy Beiman, a graduate of the first class of CalArts’ Character Animation Program in 1979, was a supervising animator on such films as Amblin’s An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) and Disney’s Treasure Planet (2002).She also directed a TV special, two videogame cinematics, and three independent short films. Nancy became an educator after a 1999 auto accident and taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the Rochester Institute of Technology beginning in 2000. She then taught storyboarding at Sheridan College from 2008-2018. Nancy also wrote textbooks on storyboarding (Prepare to Board!) and acting for animators (Animated Performance). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Beiman
Nancy’s fellow 2026 inductees are Doug Crane, Harry Love, Elmer Plummer, and Harold Whitaker.
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