Bill Plympton

The New York Television Festival's Independent Pilot Competition Picks Include Bill Plympton, Michael Showalter, Lorenzo Lamas

Founded in 2005, the New York Television Festival (running this year from October 22-27) strives to do for the medium of TV what film festivals often do for cinema -- to provide a platform for independent work and, perhaps, in this case through network deals, a way to get it seen by a larger au...

Watch: Exclusive Clip of Bill Plympton Talking About Animation Great Winsor McCay in New Doc

ShortsHD, the network dedicated to short films, recently broadcast the world premiere of "Bill Plympton Restores McCay's 'The Flying House,'" a documentary short about how Plympton and his team are working to restore one of the earliest animations by the father of animatio...

Critic's Notebook: Has Pixar Gone the Way of 'The Simpsons'?

Watch: Bill Plympton's Couch Gag From This Week's 'Simpsons'

If the distinctive animation style of the couch gag that launched last night's episode of "The Simpsons" looked familiar (and very non-Springfield standard), that's because it's the work of indie animator Bill Plympton ("Idiots and Angels," "I Married a Strange Person!"). The extended sequence, whic...