Animation Professionals


The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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Joseph Barbera on his favorite animated characters, and on the key to a successful animated character
01:43
Nancy Cartwright on auditioning for The Simpsons, originally part of the Tracey Ullman Show
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Bill Melendez on advice to an aspiring animator
01:41
June Foray on the animation technique of rotoscoping, which she worked with as an animation voiceover artist for Disney
00:55
Alex Anderson on the animation process of Crusader Rabbit
04:32
Chuck Jones on "Bugs'" catch phrase "What's up, doc?"
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Alex Anderson

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Alex Anderson on the animation process of Crusader Rabbit
04:32
Alex Anderson on the process of writing for Crusader Rabbit
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Alex Anderson on advice to aspiring animators 
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Joseph Barbera

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Joseph Barbera on his favorite animated characters, and on the key to a successful animated character
01:43

Art Clokey

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Art Clokey on his advice to young animation producers
01:42

June Foray

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June Foray on the animation technique of rotoscoping, which she worked with as an animation voiceover artist for Disney
00:55

Chuck Jones

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Chuck Jones on directing for the first time, on The Night Watchman
02:31

Bill Melendez

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Bill Melendez on the challenges of animating Peanuts for Charles M. Schulz
02:10
Bill Melendez on the early in-house animation process at Disney, and on what he learned there
03:03
Bill Melendez on the style of animation employed when he was at Disney, and the rules for specific characters
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Bill Melendez on the difference in style between Disney and Warner Bros. animation
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Bill Melendez on what he learned from working at Warner Bros. animation
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Bill Melendez on the stages of producing the Charlie Brown Specials, and on collaborating with Charles M. Schulz
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Bill Melendez on advice to an aspiring animator
01:41

Arthur Rankin, Jr.

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Arthur Rankin Jr. on casting his animated shows
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Phil Roman

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Phil Roman on how the animation production schedule differed from theatrical features to television and on dividing up labor
01:59
Phil Roman on what strengths he was most known for in his early days as an animator
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Phil Roman on the challenge of running his own production company Film Roman
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Phil Roman on Film Roman selling Howie Mandel's series Bobby's World to Margaret Loesch to FOX and on the process of selling shows to networks
02:33

Thomas Schlamme

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Thomas Schlamme on animating television commercials
02:30

Robert Smigel

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Robert Smigel on why he turned to animation and his early attraction to cartoons as a kid
00:55
Robert Smigel on one of his goals with The Dana Carvey Show being not too similar to Saturday Night Live; on writer Dino Stamatopoulos making suggestions for Smigel’s cartoon idea and working on a Superhero parody of "Batman" and "Robin" as "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" for The Dana Carvey Show (and later Saturday Night Live's "TV Funhouse"); on playing with ideas of homoeroticism and masculinity in writing the sketches
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Robert Smigel on his "Fun with Real Audio" sketches (for Saturday Night Live) being the inverse of the Clutch Cargo animated device; on the first "Fun with Real Audio" sketch animating real audio clips between Larry King and Ross Perot
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Robert Smigel on the animated sketch "Journey to the Disney Vault" for Saturday Night Live's "TV Funhouse"
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Robert Smigel on his "TV Funhouse" animated sketch skewering NBC's parent company GE on Saturday Night Live
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Robert Smigel on his parody of the Peanuts for his "TV Funhouse" animated sketch on Saturday Night Live
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Robert Smigel on his involvement with the 25th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live in 1999; on the animated sketch "Life of a Catchphrase" he created for "TV Funhouse" that aired during that special
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This category consists of animators, inkers, animation directors, executives and other personnel involved in the production of shows wherein the main images are created by hand, stop-motion, or computer.