Bob Kurtz (animator)
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Bob Kurtz, founder of Kurtz & Friends Animation, is a director, producer, artist, and designer who primarily works in films and TV commercials.[1][2] He attended the Chouinard Art Institute. He has taught at the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.[3][4][5][6]
Selected filmography
Director / writer / designer / producer
- Harold And His Amazing Green Plants (1984)
sequences theaterical feature films
- Max Dugan Returns (1983)
- Jetsons: The Movie (1990) (You & Me animation sequence)
- City Slickers (1991) (also for City Slickers II)
- Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992)
- Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
- Straight Talk (1992)
- Jurassic Park (1993) ("Mr. DNA" animated sequences)
- City Slickers II (1994)
- Four Rooms (1995)
- George of the Jungle (1997)
- Minority Report (2002) ("Pine & Oats" animated sequence)
- The Pink Panther (2006)
- Are We Done Yet? (2007)
- Gambitt (2012)
Other
- The Way Things Work (3D-3 screen experience at Sony's Metreon)
- Chevron ("Dinosaur" commercial)
- Clubhouse (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only)
- Junior (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only)
- Sesame Street ("My Various Me's", "Lincoln Park Zoo",[7] and "More Moths" animated sequences)
- Schoolhouse Rock! Earth ("Tiny Urban Zoo" scene)
TV
- The Roman City (1994 TV movie) (animated version of the David Macaulay book) (Best Primetime Animation Emmy)
- Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noël (1996, TV movie) (Lily Tomlin special) (Peabody Award winner)
- Carlin on Campus (1984) ("Drawing on My Mind" animated sequences)
Awards
Winner of over 250 major awards including:Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- Peabody Award[8]
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, 1994[9]
- Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1991[10]
- Clio Awards[11]
- International Festival of Short Films - Annecy, France
- U.S. Television & Film Festival - New York
- Ottawa/Hamilton Canadian International Animation Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- Society of Illustrators - New York
- London Television Advertising Awards
- Andy Awards
- Telly Awards
References
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- ↑ The New York Times
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External links
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- Kurtz & Friends Animation web site
- Bio at Chuckjones.com