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CITY THE ANIMATION

2025

This town, is not just a normal town. There's laughter, love and emotional moments. An unpredictable ordinary life presented by the residents! Exciting stuffs come one after another. Welcome to CITY.

Kenji Kodama

Director · Known for Detective Conan

Kenji Kodama (こだま 兼嗣, Kodama Kenji, born December 13, 1949), real name: 児玉 兼嗣 (same reading), is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist born in Hokkaidō. He is a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). His wife is Sachiko Kamimura, an animator and illustrator. He is best known for being one of the main directors on the long-running anime Case Closed, also known as Detective Conan, as well as the City Hunter series and Lupin III Part III.

Carlos Saldanha

Director · Executive Producer · Known for 100 Days, Ice Age: Collision Course, Ice Age: Continental Drift

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carlos Saldanha (born July 20, 1968) is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to follow his artistic instinct and passion for animation. With a background in computer science and a natural artistic sensibility, he found New York City the perfect locale to merge these skills and become an animator. He attended the MFA program at New York's School of Visual Arts, where he graduated with honors in 1993, after completing two animated shorts, The Adventures of Korky, the Corkscrew (1992) and Time For Love (1993). The shorts have been screened at animation festivals around the world. At SVA, Saldanha met Chris Wedge, one of the cofounders of Blue Sky Studios, who invited him to join their growing team of artists. He also worked as animator on Wedge's short film Bunny. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos Saldanha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Jun Shishido

Director · Known for Attack on Titan

Jun Shishido (宍戸 淳, Shishido Jun, November 8, 1976) is a Japanese anime director from Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture. After joining the animation production company Imagine, he made his directorial debut in 2001 with the episode 12th of Hajime no Ippo. Afterwards, he moved to Madhouse.

Isaiah Saxon

Director · Known for The Legend of Ochi

Jsaiah Saxon (born 1983) is an American film and music video director. He co-founded the animation studio Encyclopaedia Pictura and the online community DIY.org. Saxon was born and raised in Aptos, California. He majored in film directing at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch founded Encyclopaedia Pictura as a directing duo in 2004, before expanding into a trio when Daren Rabinovitch joined in 2007, and ultimately transforming into an animation studio. Through Encyclopaedia Pictura, Saxon has directed music videos, short films, and commercials. The studio is known for creating ambitious music videos and short films with an organic, handmade quality. In 2007, Saxon and Hellfritsch directed the music video for the Grizzly Bear single "Knife". The video was filmed in Death Valley, CA, and Brooklyn, NY. Their first major video, it was listed at #26 on Pitchfork's list of the top 50 music videos of the 2000s. Following the "Knife" video, Saxon got a call from Björk, asking Encyclopaedia Pictura to direct a music video for her single "Wanderlust." Their concept was inspired by the work of Hayao Miyazaki, Stanley Kubrick, and Walt Disney's work from the 1930s. The video was shot at Matthew Barney's studio in New York City, in stereoscopic 3-D, using a 3-D camera rig they designed and built. Combining handmade puppetry, scale modelling, CGI, and live action, it took over nine months to complete. The "Wanderlust" video premiered at the Deitch Projects gallery in Long Island City, Queens, and was shown in 3-D at Saatchi & Saatchi's 2008 New Directors Showcase. It won three D&AD Yellow Pencil awards and the UK Music Video Award for Video of the Year. Spin magazine named it the best music video of 2008, and Pitchfork ranked it #21 on its list of the top 50 music videos of the 2000s. Saxon directed the animated music video for the Panda Bear song "Boys Latin," which premiered on Adult Swim in 2015. It was nominated for the UK Music Video Award for Best Animation in a Video. In 2011, Saxon began developing a feature film titled DIY, about a group of kids that rebuild their town after a flood. The following year, Saxon, Zach Klein, Andrew Sliwinski, and Daren Rabinovitch founded DIY.org, an online educational community for kids, with a shopfront in San Francisco. Saxon served as chief creative officer from the company's founding in 2012 through 2014. He creates the skill patches that are sent out to community members. Starting in 2008, Saxon, Hellfritsch, and Rabinovitch transformed 10 acres in the wooded hills in Aptos, California, into Trout Gulch, a community where they built their own houses, farmed, and produced digital animation. The intent was to blend technology with nature. At its peak, 18 people lived at Trout Gulch. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jsaiah Saxon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rob Renzetti

Director · Known for Dexter's Laboratory

Robert John Renzetti is an American animator and author. Renzetti is known for creating My Life as a Teenage Robot and the Oh Yeah! Cartoons series Mina and the Count for Nickelodeon, directing Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack for Cartoon Network and serving as the animation director of Sym-Bionic Titan. He was also the supervising producer on the Disney Channel animated television series Gravity Falls and an executive producer on Big City Greens. He most recently served as story editor and co-executive producer on Kid Cosmic for Netflix and is currently writing his first original novel entitled The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things to be published by Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Ernest Pintoff

Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931 in Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The Critic (1963), a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks. Born in Watertown, Connecticut, but raised in New York City, Pintoff originally began as a jazz trumpeter who taught painting and design at Michigan State University. However, he had always shown an interest in the animation of film and began writing in 1956. His career took off in 1957, when he wrote the script for Flebus, followed by 1959 as a producer and director for the animated short film, The Violinist. Narrated by Carl Reiner, the film earned Pintoff an Oscar nomination and illustrated a promising young career in directing film ahead of him. In 1964, he won an Oscar for his direction of the 1963 film, The Critic, which was narrated by co-creator Mel Brooks and focused on a man with a grumpy voice trying to understand abstractions he observes. On television, Pintoff directed many episodes of popular television series, including Hawaii Five-O (1968), Kojak (1968), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Dukes of Hazard (1979), Falcon Crest (1981) and Voyagers! (1982). As part of NBC's "Experiments in Television" in the late 1960s, he also directed the documentaries This Is Marshall McLuhan and This Is Sholem Aleichem. Pintoff produced and directed a number of low-budget independent films such as Harvey Middleman, Fireman (1965), Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? (1971) and Dynamite Chicken (1972), a film using a collection of old clips from music with appearances by John Lennon, Richard Pryor and Andy Warhol, Nel mirino del giaguaro (1979). Following his last film in 1985, Pintoff taught directing at the School of Visual Arts, American Film Institute, USC School of Cinematic Arts, California Institute of the Arts and UCLA. He received the International Animated Film Society's Winsor McCay Award for prolific lifetime contributions to animation in 1998.

Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is a Palestinian-born American animator and filmmaker. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote. He has been involved in numerous television projects as director, writer, producer and animator. Beginning his career at the Terrytoons television cartoon studio as a cel polisher, Bakshi was eventually promoted to director. He moved to the animation division of Paramount Pictures in 1967 and started his own studio, Bakshi Productions, in 1968. Through producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi made his debut feature film, Fritz the Cat, released in 1972. It was the first animated film to receive an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and the most successful independent animated feature of all time. Over the next eleven years, Bakshi directed seven additional animated features. He is well known for his fantasy films, which include Wizards (1977), The Lord of the Rings (1978) and Fire and Ice (1983). In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years before it was canceled due to complaints from a conservative political group over perceived drug references. After a nine-year hiatus from feature films, he directed Cool World (1992), which was largely rewritten during production and received poor reviews. Bakshi returned to television with the live-action film Cool and the Crazy (1994) and the anthology series Spicy City (1997). He founded the Bakshi School of Animation and Cartooning in 2003. During the 2000s, he has focused largely on painting. He has received several awards for his work, including the 1980 Golden Gryphon for The Lord of the Rings at the Giffoni Film Festival, the 1988 Annie Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation, and the 2003 Maverick Tribute Award at the Cinequest Film Festival.

Steven Blakeley

Cast · Known for Heartbeat

Steven Blakeley (born 26 February 1982) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as PC Geoff Younger in the British police drama Heartbeat, guest roles in various other television programmes and multiple theatre roles. Steven Blakeley was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire in 1982 and was brought up in the Derbyshire mining town of Bolsover. He attended the Bolsover School, and was initially interested in pursuing a medical career, before turning his attentions to performing. Blakeley started his career as a member of the Derby Playhouse Community and Youth Theatre companies, before going on to work professionally at Derby Playhouse. He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and at the Athanor Academy in Germany. His theatre credits include national tours of Peter Shaffer's The Private Ear and The Public Eye, Dry Rot and Funny Peculiar, Diary of a Nobody at the Royal and Derngate, Boeing-Boeing, Selling the Sizzle, Bare Words, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Pan, The Hypochondriac, Soap and Cold Turkey. As well as appearing in four series of ITV's Heartbeat, he has made guest appearances in ITV's Emmerdale, Doctors and Holby City (the latter two both for the BBC). Blakeley has performed in radio plays for the BBC, as well as providing narration for animation films and poetry recordings. In 2006, he was a nominee in the category of Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards, and in 2016 a nominee in the category of Best Supporting Male Performer at the Off West End Awards for his portrayal of Comrade Staggles in J. B. Priestley's The Roundabout at the Park Theatre, London. He played the same role when the production transferred to New York in 2017. Blakeley played Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the United Kingdom, Dublin, Norway and Prague. Blakeley has also worked as a writer and theatre director. Since 2009, he has appeared in, written and directed several pantomimes at the Theatre Royal Windsor, playing the pantomime dame in Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin and Jack and the Beanstalk. In 2010, he was acting at Derby Theatre. Blakeley appeared in ITV's Coronation Street and the BBC's Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley in 2018. In 2020, he appeared in the All Creatures Great and Small episode "All's Fair" as Mr. Foyle. Blakeley is also now a civil celebrant and funeral director working for A.Wass in Mansfield.

Masaya Kakehi

Born in West Tokyo City, Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hoya High School and Nihon University College of Art. Soon as a manga artist, when he was 14 years old, he won the Big Comic Spirits Monthly Newcomer Encouragement Award at “The City of Youkai” . He has also been selected for Kodansha 's Chiba Tetsuya Award . In college, he completed two independent films, including “Scrap” and “Haraise”. Both were selected for the Yubari Film Festival . Enrolled in a video production company for a period after graduating from university, earning full-fledged CG and video editing related technologies. After leaving the company, he worked mainly on motion graphics and animation . In 2003, the independent movie “ Beauty Can ” was announced. The third challenge, Yubari Film Festival 03 Off Theater Division Grand Prix, other Pia Film Festival 03 Planning Award, Michinoku International Mystery Film Festival 03 Kadokawa Off Theater Competition Grand Prix, etc. The award will be used as a whole, and will be linked to the 2004 theater release. In 2005, he made a self-remake of “ Beauty Can ” starring Satoshi Tsumabuki in “The World's Strange Story '05 Spring Special Edition” . In 2006, he wrote the novel “Beauty Can”. In 2008, the short film “ Ross: Time: Life ” , which was previously produced as an independent work , will be made into an omnibus series drama on Fuji TV. He participated as a draft, general director and director. He also made a feature film director debut for theatrical performance in “ Sweet Rain Grim Reaper Accuracy ” slightly ahead of this

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Director · Known for Amélie

Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and co-director. They met at an animation festival in Annecy in 1974. Together, Jeunet and Caro directed award-winning animations. Their first live action film was The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981), a short film about soldiers in a bleak futuristic world. Jeunet also directed numerous advertisements and music videos, such as Jean Michel Jarre's Zoolook (together with Caro). Jeunet's films often resonate with the late twentieth century French film movement, cinéma du look, and allude to themes and aesthetics involving German expressionism, French poetic realism, and the French New Wave. Jeunet and Caro's first feature film was Delicatessen (1991), a melancholy comedy set in a famine-plagued post-apocalyptic world, in which an apartment building above a delicatessen is ruled by a butcher who kills people in order to feed his tenants. They next made The City of Lost Children (1995), a dark, multi-layered fantasy film about a mad scientist who steals children's dreams so that he can live indefinitely.[3] The success of The City of Lost Children led to an invitation to direct the fourth film in the Alien series, Alien: Resurrection (1997). This is where Jeunet and Caro ended up going their separate ways as Jeunet believed this to be an amazing opportunity and Caro was not interested in a film that lacked creative control working on a big-budget Hollywood movie. Caro ended up assisting for a few weeks, with costumes and set design but afterwards, decided to work on a solo career in illustration and computer graphics. Jeunet directed Amélie (2001), starring Audrey Tautou. Amélie is the story of a woman who takes pleasure in doing good deeds but has trouble finding love herself, was a huge critical and commercial success worldwide and was nominated for several Academy Awards. For this film, Jeunet also gained a European Film Award for Best Director. Jeunet has also directed numerous commercials including a 2'25" film for Chanel N° 5 featuring his frequent collaborator Audrey Tautou. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Jeunet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Anna O'Brian

Director · Known for Big City Greens

Anna O’Brian (born January 23, 1993) is the director of Disney’s “Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation,” a brand-new animated comedy from the creators of Disney Channel’s hit series “Big City Greens.” O’Brian is an Emmy®-nominated writer and artist. For more than 10 years, she has worked as a writer, storyboard artist and character designer on many highly acclaimed shows, including “We Bare Bears” at Cartoon Network, “Harvey Beaks” at Nickelodeon and “Amphibia” at Walt Disney Television Animation. In 2016, she was hired as a storyboard artist on the first season of “Big City Greens” before eventually becoming a director on the series for seasons two and three. In 2020, Anna was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for writing on the series. O’Brian attended the University of Florida and later transferred to CalArts to study animation, where her film “Good Morning” was accepted into the 2013 CalArts Producers Show. She lives in Burbank with her cat Square.

Peter Del Vecho

Producer · Known for Frozen, Frozen II, Raya and the Last Dragon

Peter Del Vecho (born April 6, 1958) is an American film producer at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he is also senior vice president of production. He is best known for producing Frozen (accolades) and Frozen II together with directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. Del Vecho grew up in the city of Quincy, in the South Shore area just outside Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston University College of Fine Arts, where he studied theatre production and worked in theatre for many years. After working at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis for about 7 years, he was recruited by Disney Animation. He started out in production management and transitioned into producing.Besides Frozen and its sequel, Frozen II, Del Vecho produced the Disney animated films The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Winnie the Pooh (2011) and was an associate producer on Treasure Planet (2002) and Chicken Little (2005). In Spring 2015, Del Vecho produced Frozen Fever, a short film based on Frozen, which was again co-directed by Buck and Lee. Del Vecho next produced the sequel to Frozen, Frozen II, which was released in November 2019 and again co-directed by Buck and Lee. Del Vecho later co-produced Raya and the Last Dragon with Osnat Shurer and co-produced Wish, which was released in 2023, with Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Del Vecho, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Saima Nakano

Saima Nakano (中野 さいま, Nakano Saima, November 26) is a Japanese voice actress born in the city of Ageo, Saitama Prefecture who is affiliated with Stay Luck. She is half Egyptian and half Japanese, and is the second daughter of two sisters. When she was in elementary school, she joined a theater company. She then became interested in voice acting and entered the anime song course at Yoyogi Animation Academy in Tokyo. She debuted as a voice actress in the first year of enrollment as the heroine Sato in the anime Ishida and Asakura. She then joined Sony Music Artists while attending school. She has appeared in many anime events outside Japan, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, etc., showing off her own singing voice. In the TV anime Aquarion Logos, besides voicing Shouko Iwagami, she was also in charge of the second insert song. She left Sony Music Artists in 2018 and moved to Stay Luck in 2019. She is a close friend of voice actresses Yuki Nagaku, Mikako Izawa, Masumi Tazawa, and Risa Tsumugi. She is also in good terms with Minori Suzuki, Ari Ozawa, and Tomori Kusunoki.

Rob Minkoff

Director · Known for The Lion King

Robert R. "Rob" Minkoff (born August 11, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Lion King. Minkoff was born in Palo Alto, California. He studied at California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s in the Character Animation department. He has directed several films for Walt Disney Feature Animation, including The Lion King (1994) and two of the Roger Rabbit shorts: Tummy Trouble (1989) and Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990). While working at Disney he wrote the song "Good Company" for Oliver & Company. He also made the films Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003) and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). Minkoff also participates as a member of the jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18. He is currently working on two films: Flypaper, which is set to release in 2011 and the announced Chinese Odyssey. He married Crystal Kung on September 29, 2007. Minkoff is the brother-in-law of Jeffrey Kung, a Chinese singer and radio VJ. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Minkoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Michel K. Parandi

Director · Known for April X

Michel K. Parandi is an American citizen of Yazidi descent and French origin. He grew up in France and received his education from the Academy of Versailles at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. In 2005 he was granted the storyboard award from Jean "Moebius" Giraud in partnership with the city of Paris for "Minuit 14." In 2008 he joined Young & Rubicam in New York City as a junior creative director, primarily focusing on directing animation. From 2010 to 2013 he was mentored by Ben Barenholtz and Hisami Kuroiwa, refining his craft as a screenwriter. From 2014 onward he entered development deals with HBO (Los Angeles) and Square Enix (Tokyo). In 2021 Variety announced that Interplay had tasked him with developing a reboot of the Earthworm Jim franchise.

Daisy Tormé

Cast · Known for The Family Plan 2, Superman & Lois

Daisy Tormé, actress, singer and host, is the daughter of Jazz legend Mel Tormé and British actress Janette Scott. Very early on, Daisy knew that her one true love was performing and throughout her life, she has worked in almost every corner of the performing arts: Film, television, radio, stage, opera and much voice-over and animation. Her professional career started at age eight when she sang along side her famous dad in "The Christmas Songs."(PBS) Soon after, a move to England would split her time between England and California. In England, her crafts were honed by Dennis Wicks of the English National Opera, and her own grandmother, legendary English actress Dame Thora Hird, which paid off in a two-year residency and starring roles with the New Sussex Opera Company, and a Gold Medal with Honors in Acting from London's famed Guildhall. Back in L.A., her natural jazz ability blossomed. After graduating from top British girls' boarding school, Benenden, Daisy enrolled at UCLA, earning a degree in English with Creative Writing and her first voiceover job which began her life long love affair with the microphone. Since then, Daisy's voice has appeared not only on her own daily radio show, but in, for example: House of Cards, Homeand, 24, Fresh Off the Boat, Syriana, The Mentalist, Shrek 4, The Hangover, Sliders (her brother Tracy Tormé's creation), and Sex and the City, the movie, to name a few! She has also voiced two radio campaigns for the Armed Services Radio Network, several video games and the complete anime series Ninja Scroll, where she stars as the Light Maiden Shigure. (Please see resume page for complete list of credits.) From playing Peggy Lee and Sinatra on the radio airwaves to Tony Bennett, Tower of Power, and even The Police on KCET-TV, to singing the standards herself at the Las Vegas Hilton alongside brother James, Daisy maintains her strong ties to jazz. She wants the greatest music played everywhere. This passion threw her onto TV as a host for the first time 10 years ago, and since then, she's been KCET's darling! She's hosted live evenings with Josh Grobin, Johnny Mathis, Chris Botti, Dianne Warren, Cheech and Chong, Tower of Power, WAR, and Dr Wayne Dyer. Also tow live auction events alongside Antiques Roadshow host Mark L. Walberg Daisy donates her time to many non-profit and charitable causes. She has hosted several events for the Cancer Support Community and YWCA, worked on the jazz-fundraiser committee at the Stroke Association of Southern California, hosted a telethon for Pet-Place Animal Shelters, celebrity-bowled (very badly!) for AIDS research and voiced the Free Arts For Abused Children campaign . In June 2007, Daisy was an Honoree at the Annual Women of Action luncheon, honoring women who achieve both high standards in their chosen careers and in charity work, all benefiting cancer research. Daisy's is a news-addict who loves sports (watching and playing, cheering for the Bruins) cooking, old movies, bad TV and long visits to England.

Gints Zilbalodis

Director · Known for Flow

Gints Zilbalodis (born in 1994) is a Latvian filmmaker and animator. Born on April 13, 1994, into the family of painter Dace Zēģele and designer Gints Zilbalodis. His fascination with filmmaking began at an early age, watching classic films and making shorts and commercials. In 2014, he graduated from the Janis Rozentāls Riga Art High School with a specialization in multimedia design. In 2015, his short film Priorities ("Prioritātes") won the award for best animated film at the Japan Nature Film Festival, while Oasis ("Oāze", 2017) received the Jury's Special Prize at the "Lielais Kristaps" National Film Festival. After directing several animated short films, Zilbalodis released his debut animated feature film, Away, in 2019, for which he served as the screenwriter, director, and composer. Away received an award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and an Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music in a Feature Production. Zilbalodis's second feature-length animated film, Flow, participated in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the European Film Award for "Best European Animated Feature Film." In January 2025, Flow received a Golden Globe Award for "Best Motion Picture – Animated," becoming the first Latvian film to win this award. On January 23, 2025, it was nominated for the 97th Academy Awards in the categories of "Best Animated Feature Film" and "Best International Feature Film." Flow is the first film produced in Latvia to be nominated for an Academy Award. It went on to win the award for "Best Animated Feature Film," becoming the first film from Latvia to win an Academy Award. In November 2024, G. Zilbalodis was awarded the Riga City Council Prize "Rigan of the Year 2024", and in December, he was named the 2024 European Person of the Year in Latvia. On May 4, 2025, Zilbalodis was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Three Stars (Class III). He's currently working on a new animated film, Limbo, scheduled for 2028.

Artt Butler

Cast · Known for Her, Star vs. the Forces of Evil

Artt Butler started working in the voice-over industry in 1991 as the lead booth director of a talent agency, providing instruction and direction to voice actors during their recordings. Among the places he worked were VoiceTrax West, a recording studio in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, where he worked with hundreds of actors on such projects as television and radio commercials, animation and interactive CD-ROM titles. After 15 years in this profession, Butler began to start working in voice acting himself.

Catherine Winder

Executive Producer · Producer · Known for INVINCIBLE, The Angry Birds Movie, The Angry Birds Movie 2

Winder is a Canadian entrepreneur and the CEO/EP of Wind Sun Sky Entertainment https://windsunsky.com a multi-media production company focused on building creator-driven global franchises based in Vancouver. She is also the CEO/Partner of Skybound North Entertainment in partnership with Skybound Entertainment (The Walking Dead/Outcast). Managing studios in both Vancouver and L.A. and collaborating with partners in Europe and Asia, she is in production and development on a diverse slate of multi-platform media content in all genres including interactive (My Singing Monsters Fandemonium) and linear shows as well as a kid's mobile app and several ROBLOX games. Throughout her career, Winder has worked on iconic brands with leading film-makers and creators. At WSS she built and oversaw the team/studio to adapt the Invincible comic book created by Robert Kirkman into an animated series for Amazon Prime. She also adapted the Angry Birds game into the global event hit film, The Angry Birds Movie ($350 million WWBO) and Executive Produced the sequel. Acting as George Lucas' producer, she took the Star Wars franchise into animation, producing the highly rated television series and film, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. As President/Executive Producer for Rainmaker Entertainment/The Weinstein Company she produced Escape from Planet Earth and worked with the Barbie executives at Mattel to develop a new look for the property for home video. As Fox Feature Animation Senior Vice President, she oversaw the production of the Oscar® nominated film Ice Age. She has also held executive positions at HBO Original Programming (VP), Hanna Barbera/Turner (Sr. Director Production), Disney Animation Japan (Production Manager) and produced various series for an older audience including; Aeon Flux (MTV), Spawn (HBO) and Spicy City (HBO). Winder is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She is also the co-author of the industry handbook used around the world Producing Animation, the third edition published in 2020.

Jeff Lewis

Jeff Lewis is an American actor and screenwriter, best known as Herman "Vork" Holden on the webseries The Guild. He is an alumnus of ACME Comedy Theatre and a graduate of The Groundlings and The Second City. Jeff Lewis has written and acted in HBO’s Sketch Pad 2 and has written for Nickelodeon’s Catscratch and DreamWorks Animation’s Toonsylvania. He has also entered the screenplay world with his script for the comedy film “For Christ’s Sake“ directed by Jackson Douglas.

Natasha Kline

Director · Known for Big City Greens

Natasha Kline (born September 5, 1986) is an American cartoonist, storyboard artist, and animation producer. She is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the animated television series Primos. She is also known for her work on Big City Greens, South Park, The Lego Ninjago Movie, Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, and Too Loud. Kline was born in West Covina, Los Angeles. She spent summers with her multicultural, and extended, Mexican-American family. She later told Variety that, at age 3, she was inspired by the animated video for Tom Petty's "Runnin’ Down a Dream" to become an animator. Kline made her first animated film in high school with a camcorder using VHS tapes, later describing it was "the most horrible way to animate...but it was a film." In March 2023, Klein said that she watched shows on MTV and Nickelodeon as a kid, such as Hey Arnold!, Rugrats, Æon Flux, Looney Tunes, and musical features by Disney Corporation. Kline attended Cal State Fullerton, where she studied illustration. She later got a degree in animation at the California Institute of the Arts.

Ricky Mabe

Cast · Known for Arthur

Richard "Ricky" Mabe is a Canadian actor. Mabe was born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. He first voiced the character Willie in CINAR Animation's The Little Lulu Show and has subsequently starred frequently on various Canadian television series' and in feature films alongside Burt Reynolds, Ryan Gosling and Elisha Cuthbert. He was also the voice of Timmy Tibble one of the Tibble Twins on the PBS children's animated television program Arthur, Stig in Pig City, Freddie Fay in the later season of The Kids from Room 402 and played Gideon Lustig in several episodes of Beautiful People. More recently, Mabe has been cast in such feature films as Zack and Miri Make a Porno and The Trotsky.

Lou Romano

Cast · Production Design · Known for Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Ice Age: Boiling Point

Lou Romano (born April 15, 1972) is an American animator and voice actor. He did design work on Monsters, Inc. and The Incredibles, and he provided the voices of Bernie Kropp in The Incredibles, Snot Rod in Cars and Alfredo Linguini in Ratatouille. Romano was born and raised in San Diego, California. He took an interest in drawing and painting at an early age and studied theater arts, performing in plays throughout junior high and high school. He studied acting at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA). After graduating in 1990 he studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts (90-92). He later completed workshops at The Groundlings in L.A. Since then he has worked as an art director and designer on various projects, includingThe Powerpuff Girls and The Iron Giant. In 2000, Romano joined Pixar as the production designer of The Incredibles, for which he won an Annie Award in 2005. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Gallery at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City and has been published on the cover of The New Yorker. In 2009, Romano left Pixar to work at LAIKA. Romano has performed in films such as Herd, The Trouble with Lou and Boys Night Out. He is the original voice of the Amoeba Boys in Whoopass Stew!. The Amoeba Boys re-appared a few years later in The Powerpuff Girls. Lou and his wife live in the Bay Area. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lou Romano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia