Background
Murphy grew up in Los Gatos, California and left high school a year early after getting a tour of Walt Disney Feature Animation studios while they were making Aladdin.
Murphy grew up in Los Gatos, California and left high school a year early after getting a tour of Walt Disney Feature Animation studios while they were making Aladdin.
He subsequently attended California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
Murphy"s first film as director was his 2004 Night of the Brocolli, about a man whose dinner vegetables exact a revenge. In 2010 he directed the animated sequences for 20th Century Fox"s Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In 2011 he was the director and producer of the Young Storytellers Foundation "Bohemian Dream Party", a charity event to benefit arts education for Los Angeles-based youth.
He also redesigned Mistress
Butterworth and directed her animation.
