Bob Godfrey - made Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit in 1961, using cutout animation like Month Python used later in the 1970's. Could be considered as lo-fi animation - refuses to take itself seriously.
Dusan Vukotic and Zagreb Film - created a modernist short animation in 1961 called Surogat, which won an Oscar(first animated short to win that was not made in the usa).
Fyodor Khitruk - Story of One Crime from 1962 is a modernist film on human noise pollution that Communist Party officials thought was attacking the housing policies of the government at the time. Kickstarted the new wave of social satire, irony and original ideas for russian animation. This one definitely struck a nerve, sleepless nights are most definitely enough to drive someone to murder from personal experience!
Wan Laiming from China had a two part animation called Havoc in Heaven base on a Monkey King story from Buddhism tradition. Part one was released 1961, and part two in 1964. In 1965 both parts were edited together.
Italian Osvaldo Cavandoli created a film called Carasello to advertise a tv show called The Line in 1969. It later got turned into comics and a tv series between 1972-1991.
Francisco Macian from Spain made The Magician of Dreams in 1966, base on a Hans Christian Anderson film.
Another russian Andrei Khrjanovsky created There Lived Kozyavin in 1966 also, another of his films was the first animated film to officially get banned in Russia(The Glass Harmonica in 1969). His fiml was approved by the KGB despite it being a commentary on how absurd the communist bureaucracy was in Russia at the time (according to him).
Japanese Toei Doga was responsible for Cyborg 009, a manga comic that was later adapted several times into tv animation, similar to astro boy. Fellow japanese creator Hiroshi Sasagawa had Mach Go Go Go which was sold in the West as Speed Racer, although "americanised" by reducing the killing into just being stunned. This was pre-Astro Boy, as the market took off for japanese anime afterwards.
Ngo Manh Lan from Vietnam was an ex soldier who directed The Kitty in 1966 made by Hanoi Cartoon Studio, which was primarily a propaganda studio. The Kitty was the first international success for the studio.
Jules Bass produced a stop motion film called Mad Monster Party in 1967 with the help of japanese studio MOM productions. This later became an influence for Tim Burton.
Fuji Television from Japan began transmitting Sazae-san in 1969, and it is still currently being made today. This suburban domestic life cartoon is the worlds longest running animated series.
Belvision Studios of Belgium adapted Asterix the Gaul in 1967 without asking the comic creators, but by the time they found out they couldnt stop the release, however they managed to stop the sequel. Today 12 films have been made in total.
Ziatko Grgic is another croatian animator, working for Zagreb Film Studio. In 1967 he created Professor Bathazar for them, with a grand total of 52 episodes over 7 years. Fellow croatians Pavao Stalter and Branko Ranitovic directed the 1969 adaptation of The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe.
Candian Eva Szasz directed Cosmic Zoom in 1968, which was based on the 1957 book Cosmic View. The same year Ray and Charles Earnes released their film Powers of Ten the same year, also based on Cosmic View. Another canadian Ryan Larkin was known for his psychedelic style and made Walking in 1969, that in 1970 was nominated for an oscar.
Terry Gilliam (YES FINALLY!) is the creator of Storytime in 1968, and Monty Pythons Flying Circus. His style of cutout animation, victorian era images and almost steampunkish style machines is well known even to this day. Love love love monty python!!
Another british company Smallfilms produced several childrens animated series like Ivor the Engine and Noggin the Dog. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin used a converted cowshed as their studio to create the basic animations.
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