extremely underrated cartoonists/animators
This is a list that shows cartoonists or animators that no one and I mean no one talks about and deserves so much attention. So I'm going to show you them
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Aliki Theofilopoulos was born on June 14, 1972 in La Jolla, California, USA. She is known for her work on Disney's Descendants Wicked World (2016), Phineas and Ferb (2007), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and Hercules (1997). She married Songwriter and Music Producer, Emanuel "Eman" Kiriakou in March, 2020. She was previously married to Baron Grafft whom with she has two children.- Animation Department
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Jaime Diaz was born on 6 January 1937 in Sáenz Peña, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jaime was a director, known for Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998), Random! Cartoons (2007) and Hong Kong Phooey (1974). Jaime died on 20 June 2009.- Animation Department
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Miles Thompson is known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), The Emoji Movie (2017) and Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998).- Art Department
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Emmy award nominated Zac Moncrief is known for his work in the animation industry. Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Storyboard Artist and Song Writer are some of the roles he's held on such hit shows as "Phineas and Ferb", "Brickleberry", "Family Guy", "Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!", "Fairly Odd Parents", "LEGO: The Hidden Side!', "Dora the Explorer" and "Lilo and Stitch" to name a few. His career started after attending CalArts in the early 90s and has been going strong ever since.- Animation Department
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Mike Milo is an Emmy award winning, 6 time nominated animator, director, writer, producer and designer. Mike has worked for most of animation's major studios including Cartoon Network, Disney, Nickelodeon, Smosh, Titmouse, Renegade, Marvel, Mike Young Studios, Hallmark, Warner Bros, Universal, Sony, Film Roman and Hanna Barbera. In addition he has had 10 development deals and 6 pilots to date and hopes to add to that this year. He is probably best know for directing Warner Bros' Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Histeria, Cartoon Network's Chowder and writing and storyboarding for Disney's Phineas and Ferb as well as producing/directing/animating and designing Smosh's famous Childhood Stories series for Youtube each of which have over 8 million hits.
Mike is now Storyboard Supervisor at Renegade Animation on a number of projects there most notably ABC Mouse. He has been known to teach Adobe Flash and Sketchbook Pro and has taught Toon Boom Storyboard Pro for Studio Arts and The Animation Guild.
Three years ago he launched Animation Insider a site devoted to interviewing animation artists which has now interviewed over 1100 artists worldwide.
During all that time he has managed to co-produce two wonderful daughters with his best friend, which are his best work to date.
During all that time he has managed to co-produce two wonderful daughters with his best friend, which are his best work to date.- Art Department
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John McIntyre was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He received an MFA in film and animation from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is known for his work on The Powerpuff Girls (1998-2004), Dexter's Laboratory (1996-1998), The What A Cartoon Show (1995-1996), The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008-2010), The Fairly Odd Parents (2010-2015), Ben 10 (2015-present).- Writer
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Luke Pearson is known for Hilda (2018), Hilda and the Mountain King (2021) and Adventure Time (2010).- Writer
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Mo Willems was born on 11 February 1968 in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Sesame Street (1969), Sheep in the Big City (2000) and Caillou the Comedy World Series! (2024). He has been married to Cheryl Willems since 27 September 1997. They have one child.- Art Department
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Bob Camp is an American animator, writer, cartoonist and storyboard artist who is known for his work on The Ren & Stimpy Show. He also did animation for Evil Con Carne, SpongeBob SquarePants, Osmosis Jones, Thundercats, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Robots, Jackie Chan Adventures, Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.- Writer
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Rob Renzetti is an American animator, writer and director who is widely known for creating the cult classic teen science fiction Nicktoon My Life as a Teenage Robot, starring Janice Kawaye, Candi Milo and Eartha Kitt. It is reminiscent of 1940s cartoons. He also worked on episodes of Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, Gravity Falls and Kid Cosmic. He also worked on a series of pilots called Mina and the Count before he scrapped the idea in favor of My Life as a Teenage Robot.- Animation Department
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Mike Kazaleh was born on 9 March 1962 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He is a writer, known for The Ant Bully (2006), Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004).- Art Department
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Will Finn was born on 1 November 1958 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for Home on the Range (2004), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) and The Secret of NIMH (1982).- Art Department
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Scott O'Brien was born on 10 January 1971 in Addison, Illinois, USA. He is a director, known for Along Came a Spider (2001), Planet 51 (2009) and Shrek 2 (2004). He has been married to Shellie Kvilvang since 2005. They have two children.- Animation Department
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Kyle McQueen is known for Sausage Party (2016), The Willoughbys (2020) and Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival (2004).- Art Department
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John Eng is known for DreamWorks Dragons (2012), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) and Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987).- Art Department
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John Fountain is known for My Life as a Teenage Robot (2002), Hotel Transylvania (2012) and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999).- Writer
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Dav Pilkey was born on 4 March 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), Ask the Mask (2022) and The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants (2018). He has been married to Sayuri Pilkey since 2005.- Writer
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C.H. Greenblatt was born on June 17, 1972 in Plano, Texas, USA as Carl Harvey Greenblatt. He is a writer and producer, known for Fish Hooks (2010), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and Chowder (2007). He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in advertising. He was an art director for commercials in New York City following graduation. Steve Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, picked Greenblatt up to storyboard on the show after seeing some of his work in cartooning. He boarded on the series from 1999 to 2003 following season 3's completion. He came back to board and voice on a couple episodes for season 4 and 5. Greenblatt is considered to be one of the greatest comedy writers by critics and fans in modern times. Scott Thill of Cartoon Brew praised Greenblatt as one of the most influential comedy writers with innovative comedic elements. Cartoon Brew also said Greenblatt "has logged a decade-and-a-half across studios and shows". James Poniewozik of Time credited Greenblatt as defining SpongeBob's comedic style. Greenblatt was one of the writers of the SpongeBob episode "Band Geeks", considered by many to be the best episode of the entire series. SpongeBob writer Kaz recalled writing with Greenblatt fun and said he was full with "weird energy." He is currently working at Warner Brothers where he is executive producing Jellystone. He also mentors a Mahwah, NJ native in animation and is a recurring voice actor on Mexiguin.- Writer
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Dave Wasson was born on 11 September 1968 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Cuphead Show! (2022), Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2012) and Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998).- Animation Department
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Guy Vasilovich is known for Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998), Garfield: The Movie (2004) and Growing Up Creepie (2006).- Art Department
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Eugene Mattos is known for What a Cartoon! (1995), Young Justice (2010) and Godzilla: The Series (1998).- Animation Department
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Antoine Guilbaud was born in Paris, France. He is known for Phineas and Ferb (2007), Space Jam (1996) and Get Blake! (2015).- Producer
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Ken Kessel was born on 24 October 1948 in the USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988), Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) and Darkwing Duck (1991).- Art Department
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Byron Vaughns is known for Tiny Toon Adventures (1990), Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) and Home on the Range (2004).- Art Department
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Dennis Messner was born on 19 October 1966 in the USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Regular Show (2010), Fishstick & Honeybear (2014) and Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer (2017).- Writer
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Stephen Holman is known for Phantom Investigators (2002), KaBlam! (1996) and The Bite-Sized Adventures of Sam Sandwich (2012).- Writer
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Robin Steele is known for Stickin' Around (1996), Liquid Television (1991) and The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995).- Director
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Frank Gresham is known for Uranus Whispers (2019), Mid-Virginia Web MD (2018) and Officer Rowdy Lipincott Presents: Your Guide to Enjoying the Flattop Mountain Jam (2019).- Writer
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Matt Danner is an American writer, director, producer and voice actor. He is known for developing, producing, directing, and starring in Disney's Muppet Babies and Legend of the Three Caballeros. He won an Emmy for voicing Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, Waldorf, Beaker, and Swedish Chef in Muppet Babies. His other credits include Looney Tunes Show, Wander Over Yonder, and Gravity Falls.- Art Department
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David P. Smith was born in 1968 in the USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Shark Tale (2004), The Powerpuff Girls (1998) and The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015).- Animation Department
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Joe Murray was born on 3 May 1961 in San Jose, California, USA. He is a writer, known for Rocko's Modern Life (1993), Camp Lazlo! (2005) and Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019). He has been married to Carol Wyatt since May 2011. They have two children. He was previously married to Aleide Daley and Diane Murray.- Animation Department
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Peter Lowey is known for Polo's Robot (2010), Sidewalk Scribble (2011) and Love, Death & Robots (2019).- Art Department
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Mitch Schauer started sketching at the young age of 18 months. In early childhood, his favorite thing to draw was telephone poles in perspective. He was back and forth between Oklahoma and California with his career and eventually moved to Germany to work for Berlin Animation Film. His animation career extends from star fairies and pound puppies in the early 80s all the way to Angry Beavers in the late 90s. He now resides in California with his wife, Cindy, daughter, Stacy, and son, Robert.- Animation Department
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Alex Kirwan was born on 20 December 1977 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Alex is a producer and art director, known for My Life as a Teenage Robot (2002), Wander Over Yonder (2013) and Looney Tunes Cartoons (2019).- Animation Department
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Carlos Ramos is known for The X's (2005), Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) and ModNation Racers: Road Trip (2009).- Actor
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Mike Bell was born on 3 November 1967 in Redlands, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Turbo (2013), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) and SpongeBob SquarePants (1999).- Art Department
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David Feiss was born on 16 April 1959 in Sacramento, California, USA. He is a writer, known for Cow and Chicken (1997), Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) and Astro Boy (2009). He has been married to Annmarie Ashkar McCarty since 2009. They have one child. He was previously married to Pilar Menendez.- Animation Department
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Lynne Naylor is a Canadian animator, character designer and writer who is known for The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Mighty Ones, the failed pilot The Modifyers, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Animaniacs, Samurai Jack, SpongeBob SquarePants, Batman: The Animated Series and My Life as a Teenage Robot. She was married to Chris Reccardi before his death.- Art Department
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Christopher Joseph Reccardi was an American animator, writer, director and storyboard artist who is known for The Ren & Stimpy Show, SpongeBob SquarePants and the failed pilot The Modifyers. He also worked on Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, My Life as a Teenage Robot and Wander Over Yonder.- Director
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Emmy and Annie award winning Jorge R. Gutierrez is a Mexican animator, painter, voice actor, writer, and director. Born in Mexico City, raised in Tijuana, CalArts Experimental Animation BFA & MFA, Gutierrez has completed various films, cartoons, and paintings exploring his love affair with Mexican pop and folk culture. Gutierrez was the director & co-writer of the Guillermo Del Toro produced animated feature The Book of Life for Fox which earned him a 2014 Golden Globe Award nomination. He was also the writer & director of the Emmy nominated Son of Jaguar VR short for Google. Along with his wife and muse, Sandra Equihua, they created the multiple Emmy Award-winning animated series El Tigre, The Adventures of Manny Rivera for Nickelodeon. Gutierrez most recently created, wrote and directed the event series Maya and the Three for Netflix which recently won 4 Emmys and 2 Annie Awards, including Best Children's TV/Media award. Gutierrez is currently developing a Netflix animated feature named I, Chihuahua! with Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias.- Animation Department
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Don Bluth was one of the chief animators at Disney to come to the mantle after the great one's death. He eventually became the animation director for such films as The Rescuers (1977) and Pete's Dragon (1977). Unfortunately, the quality of animation that Disney was producing at this point was not up to par with the great works of Disney, and there was rumor that the production unit at Disney might be shut down indefinitely. In retaliation, Bluth and several other animators led a walkout, and went off to form their own independent animation firm. Bluth's first animated feature may still be his best. The Secret of NIMH (1982) was an animated film based on the children's book "Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of Nimh". The film dealt with a widowed field mouse named Mrs. Brisbee and her plight to move her house before the farmer plants his field. The rats of Nimh, an organization of super intelligent rats, band together to help her. "The Secret of NIMH" was a visually ravishing film that hearkened back to the glory days of Disney. While animation buffs raved, the film did little business at the box office. (The growing number of VCR's in America would help the film reach a cult status on home video). Undaunted, Bluth persevered. He created the video games Dragon's Lair (1983) and Space Ace (1983), both of which allowed the player to control an actual cartoon. He later teamed up with Steven Spielberg for the films An American Tail (1986) and The Land Before Time (1988). While Bluth's ambition to restore animation to its previous glory was being realized, the Disney studio, whose recent films had failed to match Bluth's at the box office, was finally ready to return to true quality. With the release of The Little Mermaid (1989) and Beauty and the Beast (1991), Bluth had to compete with a Goliath. After his next film, All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), received mixed opinions and failed to be more than a minor box office success, Bluth fell into a failing streak of films that were comparatively mediocre when placed alongside his previous work, including Rock-A-Doodle (1991), and Thumbelina (1994). Bluth later joined forces with 20th Century Fox where he made his first commercial hit in some time, Anastasia (1997). He followed up with the ambitious but hollow science fiction fantasy Titan A.E. (2000). While Bluth has yet to reach the glory of his earlier work, he nonetheless deserves credit as a champion of animation, and for surviving as an independent film maker.- Animation Department
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Sandro Cleuzo is known for Mary Poppins Returns (2018), The Iron Giant (1999) and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022).- Producer
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Chris Bailey was born on 26 March 1962 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Kim Possible (2002), Deep Rising (1998) and Oliver & Company (1988).- Art Department
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Andres Nieves was born in Brooklyn, New York. Andres is a writer, known for The Tick (1994), Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) and RoboCop: Alpha Commando (1998).- Animation Department
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Chip Wass is known for The Banana Splits (1999) and Shorty McShorts' Shorts (2006).- Writer
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Lauren Johanna Faust is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist and director. She developed My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which had a good following among males. She also worked on The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Iron Giant, Wander Over Yonder, Kid Cosmic and DC Super Hero Girls. She is married to fellow animator Craig McCracken and had a daughter.- Writer
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Maxwell Atoms is an American animator, voice actor and writer known for creating Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He is also the creator of CN's Evil Con Carne and Underfist, the Executive Producer and Supervising Director of Disney's Fish Hooks, Executive Producer of WB's Bunnicula, and the writer and director of several Scooby-Doo! DTV movies.
He has four cats.- Animation Department
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Robert Alvarez is an American animator, television director, and writer. He began his career as an assistant animator for Yellow Submarine (1968) starring The Beatles. Since then, he has worked on many animated television series, including Super Friends (1973), The Smurfs (1981), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero - The M.A.S.S. Device (1983), A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988), Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993), Dexter's Laboratory (1996), I Am Weasel (1997), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003), The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988) and Regular Show (2010). He also created and wrote two animated pilots, Pizza Boy in No Tip (1996) and Tumbleweed Tex in School Daze (1996), for Hanna-Barbera's cartoon shorts showcase What a Cartoon! (1995) in 1996. Alvarez attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California from 1962 to 1966. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in animation from the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), which he completed in 1971. Alvarez has received 6 Primetime Emmy Awards, 20 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and 1 Daytime Emmy Award nomination. His first nomination came in 1994 in the category Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) for directing The Town Santa Forgot (1993). In 2000 and 2001, he received two more nominations for his work on Beat Your Greens/Down 'n Dirty (1999) and Moral Decay/Meet the Beat-Alls (2000), also receiving one in 2004 for The Powerpuff Girls: 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas (2003). Alvarez won two Primetime Emmys for his work on the Genndy Tartakovsky series Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) and a third for Episode XXXVII - The Birth of Evil: Part I (2003)-Episode XXXVIII - The Birth of Evil: Part II (2003). In 2006, he garnered one nomination for Go Goo Go (2005) and another for the My Life as a Teenage Robot: Escape from Cluster Prime (2005). One more Foster's nomination followed in 2007 for the episode "Good Wilt Hunting (2006)" before he would win a Primetime Emmy for the show, which was for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination (2008) in 2009. In 2010, he was nominated for the animated short Pilot (2010) in the category Outstanding Short-format Animated Program. Alvarez received a Primetime Emmy award for Eggscellent (2012) in 2012, which he also was nominated for in 2011. His Daytime Emmy nomination was in 2007 for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003) in the category Outstanding Broadband Program - Children's.- Director
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Jamie Mitchell, director and producer of over 700 animated episodes including; Sofia the First, Hey Arnold! The Little Mermaid (TV series), Winner the Pooh (TV series and Christmas Special) Aladdin (TV series), Fatherhood, Planet Kate, Special Agent Oso, Duck Tales (Feature and TV Series), Tailspin and more. Production collaboration with animation studios all over the world: South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, France, Great Britain, Canada, Philippines, Ireland, and the United States.- Art Department
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Bill Riling is known for Penguins of Madagascar (2014), The Lego Batman Movie (2017) and Monsters vs. Aliens (2009).- Animation Department
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Eric Bryan was born on 11 March 1966 in the USA. He is a writer, known for Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998), Space Jam (1996) and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).- Animation Department
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Michelle Bryan was born on 13 March 1971 in California, USA. She is a director, known for Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) and T.U.F.F. Puppy (2010).- Art Department
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Vincent Scala is known for Dora the Explorer (2000), Go, Diego! Go! (2005) and Team Umizoomi (2010).- Actress
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Niki Yang was born on 8 June 1985 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress and director, known for Adventure Time (2010), Gravity Falls (2012) and Killing of the Alaskan King Crab (2013).- Producer
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Jeff DeGrandis is known for Dora the Explorer (2000), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) and Mad Jack the Pirate (1998).- Animation Department
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A Bay Area transplant living in Los Angeles, Anne Walker Farrell has worked in nearly every department of television production during her fourteen years in the animation industry.
She's directed on Duncanville, Final Space season 2, and was previously a director on Bojack Horseman, she has worked with a wide variety of clients, including MTV (Good Vibes), Nickelodeon (Random! Cartoons), Bento Box (Murder Police), and Cartoon Network (The Mr. Men Show, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi).
The creator of Starseeking, an ongoing scifi webcomic, she enjoys traveling with her husband, hanging with her two cats, and unintentionally murdering an inordinate number of blameless houseplants.- Animation Department
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Greg Miller is a graphic and digital artist who is employed by Walt Disney Television Studios and Dreamworks Production Companies. He has gained notoriety through his efforts as a producer, director, writer, and artist on various movies and television series. His notable efforts include Shrek the Third (2007), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), and Shrek Forever After (2010). Presently, he is contributing to The 7D (2016) and The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015-2016) television series.- Producer
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Diane Kredensor is known for Superbuns (2023), The Ollie & Moon Show (2017) and WordWorld: Welcome to WordWorld (2007).- Art Department
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Raul Aguirre Jr. was born in East L.A. but grew up on the mean streets of Hacienda Heights California. Back when he was 3 heads tall Raul picked up a crayon and did his version of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel only instead of biblical figures, his featured Popeye battling Mighty Mouse While Dinosaurs in Spaceships carpet bombed the Legion of Doom. Unfortunately he chose to create his first masterpiece on his mother's living room wall. The combination of laughter and horror on his mother's face left an indelible mark on the lad. He learned Art is Powerful!From that moment on Raul decided he wanted to become an artist.
For the next 30 years Raul embarked on a lone quest for artistic mastery with an unwavering Quixote-like madness and dedication.
After high school, Raul entered the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program at the Art institute of Southern California (Recently renamed to The Laguna College of Art and Design) where he received 2 years worth of a solid art foundation. At the same time he was studying animation at the fabulous Rowland Animation.
Raul was quickly recruited by Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1994. For years Raul honed his craft, and learned everything about the animation process he could from the artistic geniuses that surrounded him. Raul worked on such features as, Pocahontas, Tarzan, and Treasure Planet, spending over two years as Glen Keane's protégé and the last Disney Animator Trained by Glen in Disney Traditional 2D Feature Animation.
In 2003 Raul created Illegal Alien Productions recently renamed Studio Raul in South Gate California to develop his own projects and produce freelance animation. He has created well over a dozen unique and stylish, High-Concept properties ranging from Preschool to Prime Time content. With Raul's creativity,determination, and problem solving skills, Studio Aguirre is proving to be a dynamic creative force on the verge of blowing up.
Frederator and Nickelodeon green lit Raul to produce his own creation Hero Heights for the Random Cartoons show in late 2005. Raul was credited as Creator, Co-Executive Producer, Director, Writer,Storyboard artist, Voice Director, and even provided a voice himself. Recently Raul did a season of storyboards for Fox TV's Family Guy.
Besides creating tomorrow's cartoons Raul does a lot of painting, freelance animation,storyboards, character design, portrait commissions, development of his Feature and TV Intellectual Properties as well as writing Pitch materials, screenplays and short stories. In his spare time Raul enjoys golf, travel, fine dining, photography and reading.
Raul Aguirre Jr. and his lovely wife Hortencia reside in their Chateau nestled in beautiful South Gate Ca.- Animation Department
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Angelo DiNallo is known for Art of the Dead (2019), Attack of the Unknown (2020) and China, IL (2008).- Animation Department
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Erik Knutson is known for New Looney Tunes (2015), Random! Cartoons (2007) and Mike Tyson Mysteries (2014).- Animation Department
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Mike Gray is known for Random! Cartoons (2007) and Let's Go Chipper! (2008).- Director
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Jun Falkenstein is an award-winning, experienced animation director, writer, story artist and musician, and one of the rare working female animation directors in Hollywood. Her career has been extremely varied and extensive, encompassing theatrical, television and internet media.
She grew up in Laguna Beach, California, and received a B.A. from USC's prestigious School of Cinema-Television in 1991. She made her television directorial debut in 1994 with the Hanna Barbera TV movie, Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1994), and her theatrical directorial debut with The Tigger Movie (2000). Since then, she has worked at many major studios in both television and theatrical animation, in development as well as production.
Some of the studios she has worked at include the Walt Disney Studios, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Sony, Mattel, Skydance, and Dreamworks. Most recently, she has been the supervising director/E.P./co-showrunner of the Apple TV+ series Stillwater (2020),' for which she won the Peabody Award (2020) and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Preschool Animated Program
Jun is also an accomplished musician and award-winning machinima filmmaker. She is also the co-founder of a music-based international non-profit organization 'Bread Over Bombs', which helps support food banks all over the world.- Writer
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Adam Muto was born on 19 July 1980 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Adventure Time (2010), Adventure Time: Distant Lands (2020) and Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake (2023).- Animation Department
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Manny Galan is known for Chupacabra (2007), Captain Cornelius Cartoon's Cartoon Lagoon (2012) and Transformers: How to Ride Your Dinobot (2014).- Art Department
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Karl Toerge is known for The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1995), Dinosaur Train (2009) and The Mansion Cat (2001).- Writer
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Russ Harris is known for What a Cartoon! (1995), Random! Cartoons (2007) and Crawford's Corner (2003).- Animation Department
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Andy Suriano is a graphic and digital artist who is employed by Walt Disney Television Studios Production Company. He has gained notoriety through his efforts as a character/prop designer and storyboard artist on various movies and television series. His notable efforts include Samurai Jack (2001-2004), Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003-2005), Johnny Test (2005-2006), and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. (2013-2014). Presently, he is contributing to the Mickey Mouse (2013-2016) television series.- Writer
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Luke Brookshier was born on 31 August 1971 in Corona, California, USA. He is a writer, known for SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Tom & Jerry (2021) and Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (2021).- Animation Department
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Mike Kunkel was born on 30 September 1969 in California, USA. Mike is a director, known for Hercules (1997), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (2005).- Art Department
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Sean Kreiner was born on 15 October 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Sean is a writer, known for Teen Titans Go! (2013), Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018) and The Penguins of Madagascar (2008).- Writer
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James Kochalka was born on 26 May 1968 in Burlington, Vermont, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Plunger the Dragon (2018), Super F***ers (2012) and The Loop (2006).- Animation Department
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Carey Yost was born on 30 December 1968 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is a writer, known for The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017), The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) and Samurai Jack (2001).- Animation Department
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Charlie Bean was born on 10 August 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Lady and the Tramp (2019), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) and Tron: Uprising (2012).- Animation Department
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Ed Bell is known for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Soul (2020).- Animation Department
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Andy Bialk is a 2-time Emmy Award winner, 4-time Annie Award nominated Character Designer with 25+ years in the Animation Industry. His influential designs can be seen in television and feature films including the 2019 Academy Award winner, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Under The Boardwalk, LEGO movie 1 & 2, The SpongeBob Movie, The Book of Life, Madagascar 2, Megamind and more.- Writer
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Dana Terrace is an American animator, director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and voice actress. She is most known for creating Disney's The Owl House, as well as being a writer, storyboard artist, and doing additional voices in The Owl House. She's also known for working as a director on Disney's DuckTales. She's also been a storyboard artist on Gravity Falls, Camp Halohead, Tangled: The Series, and a storyboard revisionist on the TV movie, Tangled: Before Ever After.- Writer
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Matt Braly is an American animator, writer, director, producer, and storyboard artist. He is most known for creating Disney's Amphibia. He also worked as a storyboard artist and storyboard revisionist on Disney's Gravity Falls, a writer, storyboard artist, and director on Disney's Big City Greens, and a writer on Steven Universe. He was also a story artist on Turbo. While being the current creator and executive producer on Amphibia, he's a storyboard artist on the upcoming movie, Connected.- Writer
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Dave Cooper is known for Pig Goat Banana Cricket (2015), Squash (2020) and The Bagel and Becky Show (2016).- Producer
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Alan Foreman is known for The Casagrandes (2019), Welcome to the Wayne (2017) and Baby Shark's Big Movie! (2023).- Writer
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Craig Bartlett was born on 18 October 1956 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Dinosaur Train (2009), Hey Arnold! (1996) and Rugrats (1991). He was previously married to Lisa Groening.- Writer
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Jhonen Vasquez was born and raised on San Jose's East Side. He graduated from Mount Pleasant High in 1992 and was a one-time film student at De Anza College. Even though he has little formal artistic training, he entered the world of alternative comics, as the writer/creator/artist of such titles as "SQUEE!" and "Johnny, The Homicidal Maniac", both published by Slave Labor Graphics. "SQUEE!" was nominated for several Eisner Awards, the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars.- Writer
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Peter Hannan is an artist and writer. He is the creator and executive producer of the Nickelodeon animated series, CatDog, overseeing all aspects (writing, storyboarding, character design, art direction, and post-production) of sixty-five half hours, including several holiday specials. Since most of the shows are made up of 11-minute episodes, this amounts to one hundred and twenty-something stories and at least one fistfight. He produced Fetch, the CatDog theatrical short subject for The Rugrats Movie as well as a ninety-minute television movie, CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery.
He has several new film and television projects in development (for little kids, big kids, and grown-ups), and is working behind the scenes or in collaboration with a variety of talented cohorts, writing show bibles, scripts, and treatments, creating/designing characters, art directing, and songwriting.
He is the author and illustrator of The Sillyville Saga, a series of children's books and a veritable manifesto of absurdity: Sillyville or Bust, Escape from Camp Wannabarf, School After Dark: Lessons in Lunacy, and The Battle of Sillyville: Live Silly or Die! He also wrote and illustrated stories for the anthologies Speak! Children's Illustrators Brag About Their Dogs and Purr! Children's Illustrators Brag About Their Cats. He is currently working on series of middle-grade illustrated chapter books which feature a staggering team of super-avenging nincompoops. He really wants this to be a runaway best-selling series because he feels that sitting on the beach, or perhaps in the woods, scribbling funny words and silly pictures while sipping refreshing beverages would be a very civilized way to live. He is also writing and illustrating several picture books and working on a book intended for adults. He has written and illustrated a number of amusing newspaper and magazine pieces with titles like The Incredible Shrinking Christmas, Death of Yuppie, Mike Royko Moves to the Suburbs, and The Good, the Bad, and the Irish.
Hannan has had a life-long interest in, some might say addiction to, singing and songwriting. He wrote the CatDog theme song, which he also sings. He wrote many other songs for the series, but mercifully left the singing to his remarkable cast. The most hilarious coup of his songwriting career was convincing Oscar-winning multi-hyphenate Billy Bob Thornton and Ally McBeal/Broadway star Jane Krakowski to sing two perfectly ridiculous songs (as two characters each) for CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery. Five Hannan CatDog songs are included on "The Newest Nicktoons" and several other Nickelodeon collections released on Kid Rhino.
He has done illustrations for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, and many other newspapers, magazines, and advertising media. His single-panel cartoons (The Adventures of a Huge Mouth) have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Esquire Magazine, The Chicago Reader and many other publications. A book of his cartoons was published by Chicago Review Press and he created a line of greeting cards for Paper Moon Graphics. He is currently working on a series of drawings entitled My Own Private Hollywood, a harrowing look at the funny business of the business. His paintings, drawings, illustrations, and cartoons have been included in numerous exhibitions.
Peter Hannan was born and raised in upstate New York. He is a proud victim of small-town public and parochial education and a graduate of tiny and notorious Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, famous as the alma mater of David Mamet. Peter Hannan has never even met Mr. Mamet. Mr. Hannan lives in southern California with his wonderful wife (who he met when he was six and she must have been, like, negative ten or something), two fabulous kids, and two dogs, one of whom is certifiably nuts, but only when the doorbell rings.- Art Department
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Eddie Fitzgerald is known for Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) and Frozen (2013).- Director
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Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. He was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel, the son of Mina (Zlotin) and Eliezar Bakshi, and is of Krymchak Jewish descent. He was raised in Brownsville, after his family came to New York to escape World War II. Bakshi attended the Thomas Jefferson High School and was later transferred to the High School of Industrial Arts and graduated with an award in cartooning in 1957.
At the Terrytoons studio, he started as a cel polisher then graduated to cel painting. Practicing nights and weekends, he quickly became an inker and then an animator. There, he worked on such shows as Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Deputy Dawg, Foofle and Lariat Sam. At 28 he created and directed a series of superhero spoof cartoons called The Mighty Heroes.
In 1967, Bakshi moved to Paramount Studios. Working with producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi worked on episodes of the Spider-Man TV series and several short films. In the 1970s, Bakshi set out to produce films using his innovative vision for how animated films should be. Krantz suggested Robert Crumb's "Fritz the Cat" comic book as Bakshi's first feature. The two set out to meet with Crumb and get the film rights. In 1972, the film premiered and was extremely successful, as the first feature-length animated film to receive an X rating by the American rating system (when it was distributed worldwide, it generally received lower ratings the equivalent of an R rating, and was released as being unrated on DVD).
The success of "Fritz the Cat" allowed Bakshi to produce films featuring his own characters and ideas, and so "Heavy Traffic" and "Coonskin" were produced, both of which were extremely controversial, but were praised by critics. During the same period, he shot and completed another feature titled "Hey Good Lookin'" for the Warner Brothers studio, who didn't think that a combination of live-action and animation would sell, and forced Bakshi to go back and animate the live action sequences.
During this period, Bakshi also produced two very successful fantasy films, "Wizards" and part one of an animated film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." Although these films were financially successful, they were misunderstood by critics, and United Artists, the studio that produced "The Lord of the Rings" refused to fund the second part, or sequel to Bakshi's ambitious adaptation.
During the 1980s, animation went into a decline. "American Pop," done using the same style of realistic animation as "The Lord of the Rings" was not successful financially, and critics did not see the point of the film being animated. The finished version of "Hey Good Lookin'" was released during the same year as "American Pop," but was also unsuccessful financially. Bakshi's last film of the decade, "Fire & Ice," a collaboration with famed artist Frank Frazetta, was a flop.
Bakshi produced several television features with mixed results before returning to film with what would eventually become "Cool World" - the script was rewritten several times during production without Bakshi's knowledge until it came to the point where Bakshi did not recognize his own work. The film was critically scorned, and was a box office flop. Fans feel that the film is not a true Bakshi film.
Since then, the Internet and DVD releases of Bakshi's work have brought him a new generation of fans and increased interest, encouraging Bakshi to produce another film. "Last Days of Coney Island" is in production. Bakshi lives in New Mexico. A three-day retrospective was held at American Cinematheque at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California and the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California in April, 2005.- Writer
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Tom Warburton is the creator of Cartoon Network's super giant hit original series Codename: Kids Next Door, Along with the PBS Kids' sooper gigantic unbelievably hit original animated sitcom series The Suite Life of Hudson & James. Mr. Warburton has previously served as a director for Cartoon Network's Sheep in The Big City, lead character designer for Disney's Pepper Ann, and spent five years at commercial studio J.J. Sedelmaier Productions where he served as production designer on MTV's Beavis and Butthead, director on new episodes of Schoolhouse Rock and Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse. His first picture book 1000 Times No was released in 2009. Lately Mr. Warburton has been at Disney where he's served as creative director on Fish Hooks and co-exec producer of The 7D!- Writer
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Parker Simmons is an animator, voice actor, writer, and producer. He is the creator of the Cartoon Network and Titmouse animated series Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart (2014), as well as being the voice of Mao Mao and various characters. He is also known for his work on OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017) as a writer, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is also known for his work at Titmouse as an animator on Metalocalypse (2006), Superjail! (2007), The Venture Bros. (2003), Black Dynamite (2011), Motorcity (2012), Turbo FAST (2013), and Nerdland (2016). He was also the voice of Pankraz in the English dub of Dragon Quest: Your Story (2019).- Additional Crew
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Julie McNally Cahill was born in Culver City, California, USA. Julie is a writer and producer, known for Littlest Pet Shop (2012), The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1995) and My Gym Partner's a Monkey (2005). Julie has been married to Tim Cahill since 21 October 2000.- Writer
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Peter Browngardt was born on 12 August 1979 in Sag Harbor, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Uncle Grandpa (2010), Looney Tunes Cartoons (2019) and Secret Mountain Fort Awesome (2007). He has been married to Kristina Baranovich since 16 October 2011.- Producer
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Kirsten Newlands is known for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2017), The Odds (2011) and Carmen Sandiego (2019).