Bob Jaques | |
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Born | Robert Paul Jaques November 2, 1956 Port Credit, Ontario, Canada |
Education | Sheridan College |
Occupation(s) | Animator, animation director, storyboard artist |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Spouse | Kelly Armstrong (m. 1989) |
Robert Paul Jaques (born November 2, 1956) is a Canadian-American animator and animation director. [1] [2] He is best known for the television series The Ren & Stimpy Show , [3] [4] The Baby Huey Show and SpongeBob SquarePants . [5] [6] He also was nominated for two Emmys in 1992 and 1993 for his contributions to The Ren & Stimpy Show. [7]
Jaques' fascination with animation began by watching the Fleischer Popeye cartoons as a kid, and he never thought of animating as a profession. He also did some stop motion animations since he was a fan of Ray Harryhausen films. One day, he got sick with mononucleosis and did nothing but watch cartoons. Jaques didn't "draw religiously" like other children his age but he was basically self-taught. He got curious in traditional animation when he was older and applied for a animation course in Sheridan College which didn't work the first time but when he drew with more effort it worked the second time. At Sheridan, he met with John Kricfalusi and Jaques showed 16mm prints during lunch hours of shorts from the Golden age of American animation, which a crowd of people would come in and John would be one of the regulars. Kricfalusi saw one of Jaques animated shorts, which was based on a Robert Crumb comic called Tales from the Land of Genitalia, in which Jaques animated a penis with arms and legs jerking itself off, and Kricfalusi, when he saw the short, immediately thought he could animate. Eventually, Kricfalusi and Jaques became great friends because they both had an interest in golden age cartoons. [1]
Jaques animation career started at Nelvana in the 1970s as an assistant animator for Jeff Short, an employee for the Richard Williams Studio. It didn't last long since Short got frustrated at the Nelvana animation process, so Jaques switched over the Nelvana commercial department with Mark Mayerson. He headed to Los Angeles in 1981, and his first job there was working for the show Laverne & Shirley in the Army . His first work with Kricfalusi was a animation director for the "Harlem Shuffle" music video, which was animated at Bagdasarian Productions and was part of a pitch piece presented by Ralph Bakshi and drawn by Kricfalusi. Ralph made a deal with The Rolling Stones to make the video for the single. In 1989, Kricfalusi called Jaques and recruited him to animate on the pilot short for Ren and Stimpy, based on two characters Kricfalusi originally pitched as pets within an Our Gang parody, Your Gang. Jaques and Kelly Armstrong worked on the pilot in Vancouver, and Jaques sent pencil tests to Spümcø for approval. Jaques and his animation company, Carbunkle Cartoons, went on to supply animation for the show in its first two seasons, animating notable episodes such as Stimpy's Invention , Son of Stimpy and Space Madness. [1] [2]
He is currently the host of the Cartoon Logic podcast with Thad Komorowski. [8]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1983 | Rock & Rule | Assistant Animator | |
1984 | The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine | Assistant Animator | |
1985 | Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins | Animator | |
1985 | The Care Bears Movie | Animator | |
1986 | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation | Animation Posing Artist | |
1986 | Star Wars: The Great Heep | Character Posing Artist | |
1997 | The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue | Animation Director Animator | Uncredited |
1998 | The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars | Animation Director Animator | Uncredited |
2009 | The Haunted World of El Superbeasto | Animation Director | N/A |
Year | Title | Role | # of Eps |
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1985 | Ewoks | character layout artist | 13 |
1987 | The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin | key animator | 60 |
1988 | Dennis the Menace | senior key animator sheet director | 13 13 |
1990 | Ren Höek & Stimpy: Big House Blues | animator | N/A |
1990–1991 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | storyboard artist | 41 |
1991–1993 | The Ren & Stimpy Show | animation director animator | 18 8 |
1993 | 2 Stupid Dogs | animation director | 4 |
1994 | The Baby Huey Show | developer writer producer director animation director | 26 9 13 4 9 |
1996–1997 | What a Cartoon! | animation director animator | 1 1 |
1997 | Space Goofs | story | 3 |
1998 | I Am Weasel | animation director | 1 |
1998 | Cow and Chicken | animation director | 1 |
1999 | Boo Boo Runs Wild (short) | timing director | N/A |
1999 | The New Woody Woodpecker Show | supervising producer voice director (season 1) developer | 13 |
2000 | Family Guy | director | 1 |
2001–2002 | The Oblongs | director | 2 |
2001 | Time Squad | timing director | 1 |
2001 | Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law | animation timer | 1 |
2002–2005 | My Life as a Teenage Robot | director | 2 |
2003 | Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" | animation director sheet timer | 4 1 |
2006–2008 | Robotboy | animation timer lead timing director | 15 14 |
2007–2008 | Wayside | director's notes | 29 |
2008 | The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack | sheet timer (Uncredited) | 1 |
2015 | Uncle Grandpa | animation director sheet timer | 4 1 |
2016–2018 | SpongeBob SquarePants | animation director timing director | 21 1 [nb 1] |
2020 | The Tom and Jerry Show | storyboard artist | 1 |
2020 | Looney Tunes Cartoons | animator | 2 |
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Michael John Kricfalusi, known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, and former animator and voice actor. He is the creator of the animated television series The Ren & Stimpy Show, which was highly influential on televised animation during the 1990s. From 1989 to 1992, he was heavily involved with the first two seasons of the show in virtually every aspect of its production, including providing the voice of Ren Höek and other characters. In 2009, he won the Inkpot Award.
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