Benjamin Arthur (animator)

Benjamin Timothy Arthur (born April 26, 1982) is an American animator and illustrator. He is known for the Emmy-winning Netflix documentary Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut (2024), and for science explainers produced with NPR correspondents, including A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? (2010), Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can't See (2010), and the microbiome short The Invisible Universe of the Human Microbiome (2014). He first drew attention with the rotoscoped short Once Upon a Time in the Woods (2006)."52nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards Winners" (PDF). theemmys.tv. National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. October 17, 2025. Retrieved October 20, 2025.Krulwich, Robert (November 22, 2010). "A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight?". WBUR/NPR. Retrieved October 20, 2025."Look Up! The Billion-Bug Highway You Can't See". North Country Public Radio (NPR syndication). July 15, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2025."The Invisible Universe Of The Human Microbiome". Vimeo (NPR video). August 16, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2025."Once Upon a Time in the Woods". YouTube. July 8, 2007. Retrieved October 20, 2025.