Ben has worked for over 20 years in the animation industry. His short films have been screened around the world in multiple festivals such as Annecy, Ottawa Animation Festival, and SXSW. He has worked as a Director, Storyboard Artist, Animator and Musician and has been involved with dozens of animated series, as well as a number of TV commercials. Get ahold of me!

benimator@gmail.com

Screenings

2025 Ottawa International Film Festival, Spark Animation, Waco Independent Animation Festival, Vimeo Staff Pick, Short Verse Short of the Week, 2024 Waco Independent Film Festival, Annecy Animation Festival, Seattle Film Festival 2023 Newcastle International Film Festival, Spark Animation Directors Prize, Ottawa International Animation Festival 2020-21 Vimeo Staff Pick, GIRAF 17,Future Vision Festival,Ottawa Internation Animation Festival,SPARK Animation Festival,Mobile Animation Festival2018 Annecy,Vimeo Staff Pick, Melbourne International Animation Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival, Saguenay international Short Film Festival, Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2017 NW Animation Fest, SXSW, ANIBAR, PragueShorts, Titmouse 5-Second Day 2016 Animation Block Party,Titmouse 5-Second Day 2007 St. Louis International Film Festival, 2006 Animafest, Alice's 3-Minute Film Fest, ION Film Festival, 2005 SXSW, Big Bear Lake International Festival, Cinema Orange, VisionFest , Columbus International Film Festival, Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival, Milwaukee International Film Festival's Midnight Delirium Shorts, First Take International Student Film Festival, The Newport Beach Film Festival, The Holland Animation Film Festival, 2004 PIAF, Woodstock Film Festival

TV Series and Clients Include:

Walmart, MTV, Toyota, Hasbro, Disney, NRDC,PBS, Harvey Birdman, TMNT, Wow Wow Wubbzy, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Perfectland, Where My Dogs At?, Fetch: With Ruff Ruffman, Plum Landing,Kit vs. Kat, Johnny Test, Rocket Monkeys, Breadwinners, Home, Future Worm, Motor City, Apple and Onion, Kinderwood, Baby Shark,Archibald

Press

Short film: We’re Kinda Different

A Walking Butt Sings a Song

A Musical Middle Finger with Heart

This Animated Butt-Venture Will Leave You Smiling

Watch: 'We're Kinda Different' Funny 3-Minute Musical Cartoon Short

Blessed be the Cracked

We're Kinda Different

Exploring Differences and Inclusion: The Deep Meaning of We're Kinda Different

Nightmare or reality? Why not both?

Sarcastic Animation-Living the Dream

Ben Meinhardt’s Meta Short ‘Living The Dream’ Is So Relatable It Should Come With A Trigger Warning

It should be easy

It Should Be Easy, the relationship between elders and technology told by Ben Meinhardt

Ben Meinhardt's excellent feculence

Treat Your Eyeballs with the Best of 5 Second Day Animations

It Should Be Easy & More

Im Kurzfilm “More” kackt ein Esel Luftballons

Dark Futures Film Club – It Should Be Easy

BS, endless amounts of BS

Wenn Menschen Angst vor Computern haben, dann ist das nicht unbedingt eine unbegründete Spinnerei, wie dieser Kurzfilm zeigt.

PerfectLand is an oddly appealing series of Flash-animated shorts created for MTV by Ben Meinhardt.