Fil Barlow (born 8 April 1963) is an Australian artist, cartoonist, writer, production designer currently based in Los Angeles.
Richard Raynis, then producer at DIC offered Barlow the character design supervisor position on ALF, which he worked on from 1987 to 1989.
Barlow returned to Australia, moving to the Gold Coast, Queensland in 1992 creating the comic Rex Vectar, which was serialized in Megazone Magazine in 1992 and ran until 1994, he also established his own publishing and animation production house, Zoonimedia.
Through his company Barlow has worked as a character design supervisor and lead character designer at Columbia Tristar, working on Extreme Ghostbusters, Godzilla: The Series, the 3D series Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles, Max Steel, Heavy Gear and Adam Sandler's feature Eight Crazy Nights.
From 2001 onwards, Barlow has worked independently as character and production designer on Tutenstein, Igor and the co-creation with Helen Maier of the game Spectrobes for Disney.