Rate My Professor Chris Pallant

Professor Chris Pallant serves as Professor of Animation and Head of the School of Design at the University of Greenwich, having joined the institution in 2024. He holds a BA, MA, MBA, PhD, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Prior to his current role, Pallant was Faculty Director for Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange at Canterbury Christ Church University. In this capacity, he spearheaded the development of industry-facing growth ecosystems for creative sector small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Notably, he led the Hi3 Network—a collaboration spearheaded by London Southbank University—that successfully secured £5.1 million from the European Regional Development Fund over the period 2018-2023. Additionally, he founded the Creative Innovation Hub at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Pallant's scholarly work centers on animation production cultures, animation history, and animation archives, with a focus on uncovering precarious histories and amplifying silent voices within the field. His methodological approaches include archival study, interviews, participant observation, and textual analysis. Over his career, he has authored more than 80 published outputs. Key monographs include Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation (Continuum, 2011), Storyboarding: A Critical History (co-authored with Steven Price, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Animated Landscapes: History, Form, and Function (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives in Production, Reception, Legacy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), and Beyond Bagpuss: A History of Smallfilms Animation Studio (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). He has also edited Animation: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and co-edited Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2022). Recent contributions feature book chapters such as "Lucas meets Luxo: Lucasfilm’s Computer Graphics Lab (CGL) and the development of Pixar Animation Studios" (2024, with Christopher Holliday) and "Everybody chips in ten cents, and somehow it seems to add up to a Dollar’: exploring the visual toolbox of animation story design" (2023, with Paul Wells), alongside "Revisiting the production of Watership Down through the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive" (2023, with Nigel Humberstone and Klive Humberstone).