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| birth_name    = Benjamin Timothy Arthur
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age |1982|04|26}}
| birth_place   = San Francisco, CA
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| area          = Animator, illustrator
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'''Benjamin Timothy Arthur''' (born April 26, 1982, in [[San Francisco, California]]) is an American animator. He gained modest acclaim for his animation ''[[Once Upon a Time in the Woods]]'',<ref>{{cite web|author=@bentarthur|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIT87On4ktU|title=Once Upon a Time in the Woods|website=[[YouTube]]| date=8 July 2007 |access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref> a [[Rotoscope]] of his younger brother Julian during a walk in the woods, which has been in numerous film contests around the world and on [[Current TV]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://current.com/items/76362302_in_the_woods_with_julian|title=In the Woods with Julian|website=[[Current TV]]|date=October 6, 2006|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905014603/http://current.com/items/76362302_in_the_woods_with_julian|archive-date=September 5, 2008}}</ref>

Arthur also animated the popular "Why Can't We Walk Straight?" and "The Billion Bug Highway" animations for [[NPR]]'s [[Robert Krulwich]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Krulwich|first=Robert|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/06/01/131050832/a-mystery-why-can-t-we-walk-straight|title=A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight?|work=Krulwich Wonders: Robert Krulwich on Science|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=November 22, 2010|access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Krulwich|first=Robert|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/06/01/128389587/look-up-the-billion-bug-highway-you-cant-see|title=Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can't See|work=Krulwich Wonders: Robert Krulwich on Science|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=July 15, 2010|access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref> Arthur (along with Krulwich) was the recipient of a third-place Multimedia Innovation award from the White House News Photographers Association's 2011 Eyes of History: New Media Contest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whnpa.org/the-eyes-of-history/digital-storytelling/2011-eyes-of-history-new-media-contest/|title=2011 Eyes of History: New Media Contest|work=The White House News Photographers Association|year=2011|access-date=December 16, 2023}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{official website|https://arthuranimation.com}}

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[[Category:Animators from California]]
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[[Category:Artists from San Francisco]]
[[Category:21st-century American artists]]


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