Darrick Bachman is an American television writer born in Glendale, California. He has worked on such animated programs as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , Chowder , Sym-Bionic Titan , Mickey Mouse , the fifth season of Samurai Jack and Primal . He won two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards in 2004 and 2005 for his work on Star Wars: Clone Wars [1] and another win in 2009 for the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends TV-movie Destination: Imagination . [1] He has been nominated for three additional Primetime Emmys, two Annie Awards, and one Daytime Emmy Award.
Year(s) | Work | Credit(s) | Notes |
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2003–05 | Star Wars: Clone Wars | Story | TV series |
2005 | Robotboy | Script | TV series |
2006–09 | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | Writer; story | TV series |
2008 | Destination: Imagination | Story | TV movie |
2008 | The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!! | Story | TV movie |
2008–09 | Chowder | Story | TV series |
2010–11 | Sym-Bionic Titan | Head writer; story; writer | TV series |
2012 | Regular Show | Writer | TV series |
2012 | Motorcity | Writer | TV series |
2012–14 | Fish Hooks | Story | TV series |
2013 | Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja | Writer | TV series |
2014 | Wander Over Yonder | Writer; story, 1 episode | TV series |
2014–19 | Mickey Mouse | Writer | TV series short |
2016–17 | Bunnicula | Story | TV series |
2002-17 | Samurai Jack | Head writer; story; production assistant | TV series |
2017 | Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! | Writer, 1 episode | TV series |
2019 | Primal: Tales of Savagery | Writer | |
2019–present | Primal | Head writer and story | TV series |
2020 | The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse | Writer and story | TV series short |
2023–present | Unicorn: Warriors Eternal | Head writer and story | TV series |
Date | Award | Category | Work | Shared with | Result |
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2004 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) | Star Wars: Clone Wars (for Volume 1, Chapters 1–20) [1] | Brian A. Miller, Claudia Katz, Genndy Tartakovsky, Geraldine Symon, Jennifer Pelphrey, Bryan Andrews, Mark Andrews, Paul Rudish, Scott Vanzo, Yumun Jeong, Robert Alvarez | Won |
2005 | Star Wars: Clone Wars (for Volume 2, Chapters 21–25) [1] | Claudia Katz, Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Shareena Carlson, Geraldine Symon, Genndy Tartakovsky, Bryan Andrews, Paul Rudish, Yumun Jeong, Dong Soo Lee, Jong Ho Kim, Scott Vanzo, Robert Alvarez, Randy Myers | Won | ||
2007 | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Good Wilt Hunting") [1] | Craig McCracken, Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Lauren Faust, Vincent Aniceto, Michelle Papandrew, Craig Lewis, Robert Alvarez, Eric Pringle, Robert Cullen | Nominated | ||
Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Broadband Program - Children's | Grim & Evil | Maxwell Atoms, Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Kelsey Mann, Robert Alvarez, Nate Funaro, Sue Perrotto | Nominated | |
2009 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination [1] | Craig McCracken, Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Ryan Slater, Michelle Papandrew, Lauren Faust, Timothy McKeon, Ed Baker, Vaughn Tada, Alex Kirwan, Rob Renzetti, Robert Alvarez, Eric Pringle | Won |
2015 | Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program | Mickey Mouse (for "Mumbai Madness") [1] | Paul Rudish, Alonso Ramirez Ramos, Graham MacDonald | Nominated | |
2015 | Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Writing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production | Mickey Mouse [2] | — | Won |
2017 | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Short Form Animated Program | Mickey Mouse (for "Split Decisions") [1] | Paul Rudish, Dave Wasson, Graham MacDonald | Nominated |
Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics | Mickey Mouse (for "Jing-A-Ling-A-Ling" from episode "Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special") [1] | Christopher Willis and Paul Rudish | Nominated | ||
2018 | Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production | Mickey Mouse (for "Locked in Love") [3] | — | Nominated |
2021 | Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards | Outstanding Animated Program | Primal (for "Plague of Madness") [4] | Genndy Tartakovsky, Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Keith Crofford, Mike Lazzo, Oussama Bouacheria, Julien Chheng, Ulysse Malassagne, Erika Forzy, Shareena Carlson, David Krentz, and Bryan Andrews | Won |
Gennady Borisovich "Genndy" Tartakovsky is a Russian-American animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known as the creator of various animated television series on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, including Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan, Primal, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios as the network's first show animated primarily with Adobe Flash, which was done both by Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank and in Ireland by Boulder Media. Set in a world in which imaginary friends coexist with humans, it centers on a boy named Mac who is pressured by his mother to abandon his imaginary friend Bloo. After the duo discover an orphanage dedicated to housing abandoned imaginary friends, Bloo moves into the home and is kept from adoption as long as Mac visits him every day at exactly 3:00 PM. The episodes revolve around Mac and Bloo as they interact with other imaginary friends and house staff and live out their day-to-day adventures, often getting caught up in various predicaments.
Craig Douglas McCracken is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer known for creating the Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Disney Channel and Disney XD's Wander Over Yonder, and Netflix's Kid Cosmic.
"House of Bloo's" is the collective name for the first three episodes of the animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The episode's plot follows Mac, an eight-year-old boy who is pressured by his mother to abandon his imaginary friend Blooregard Q. Kazoo, on the grounds that he is too old for him. Upon seeing an ad on television for an orphanage for imaginary friends, Bloo convinces Mac to let him reside in the house so then Mac can visit him every day. Various intrigues and troubles arise with Mac's brother Terrence and imaginary friend Duchess.
Loren Hal Bouchard is an American animator, writer, producer, director, and composer. He is the creator of several animated TV shows such as Bob's Burgers, Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, and Central Park. He is also the co-creator of Home Movies with Brendon Small as well as the executive producer of The Great North.
Christopher Mason Savino is an American writer, comic book artist, and former animator. He is well-known as the creator of the animated series The Loud House. Savino has also worked on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life, Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Mickey Mouse and Johnny Test.
King of the Hill is an American animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that initially aired on Fox from January 12, 1997, to September 13, 2009, with four more episodes airing syndicated from May 3 to 6, 2010. The series centers on the Hills, an American family in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas, as well as their neighbors, co-workers, relatives, classmates, friends, and acquaintances. Series protagonist, patriarch, and everyman Hank Hill works as assistant manager at Strickland Propane. He lives in a ranch-style house with his wife Peggy, his son Bobby, his niece Luanne, and his pet bloodhound Ladybird. Hank's neighbors are his longtime friends Bill Dauterive, a divorced, bald, overweight military barber and former high school football star; Dale Gribble, a paranoid, pro-gun, anti-government pest exterminator; and Jeff Boomhauer, a charismatic, soft-spoken, often unintelligible bachelor whose occupation is revealed in the final episode of the series. The show's realistic approach seeks humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life, such as blue-collar workers, substitute teachers, and the trials of puberty.
Paul Bernard Rudish is an American animator, storyboard artist, writer, and voice actor, originally known for his art, writing, and design work at Cartoon Network Studios on series created by Genndy Tartakovsky. He went on to co-create the series Sym-Bionic Titan and, in 2013, developed, wrote, storyboarded, executive produced, and directed a revival of Mickey Mouse short cartoons.
William Ross is an American composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor and music director. Ross is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award, and has been nominated for one Annie Award. He has been nominated twice for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).
"Destination: Imagination" is a television special of the animated television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The plot of the special follows Frankie, who becomes trapped in a huge, mysterious world where she is treated like royalty but forced not to leave. Bloo, Mac, Coco, Eduardo, and Wilt journey through the world to rescue her, facing perils and challenges along the way.
The 37th Annual Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation for 2009, were held on February 6, 2010, at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Christopher Shannon Tindle, known professionally as Shannon Tindle, is an American animator, storyboard artist, television writer, screenwriter, and film director. Tindle's work on the television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends received an Annie Award nomination in 2005 for Best Character Design in an Animated Television Production. Later, at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for "Go Goo Go", while the episode was also nominated for Outstanding Animated Program.
Jason Butler Rote is an American television writer, known mainly for his work at Hanna-Barbera on Cartoon Network animated television series like Dexter's Laboratory (1996–2003) and The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005). He attended McClintock High School.
Robert James Alvarez is an American animator, storyboard artist, television director, and writer. Alvarez studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, which later became the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1971. He began his career as an assistant animator for the 1968 film Yellow Submarine. Throughout his five decades in the animation industry, Alvarez has developed an extensive resume. He has worked on hundreds of productions, mainly for television. He is best known for his work on multiple shows at Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios, and has also worked at other animation studios, such as Disney Television Animation, Nickelodeon, Frederator Studios, and Warner Bros. Animation. His studio credits include, in chronological order, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, The Jetsons, G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Animaniacs, Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Ben 10, Regular Show, and Adventure Time. He has been awarded six Primetime Emmy Awards and a total of 25 Emmy nominations for his achievements.
Jennifer Kes Remington is an American composer and filmmaker. She has done music for titles such as The Powerpuff Girls, Scary Movie 4, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Socket, and Clerks II. Her work on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends garnered her two Annie Award wins in 2005 and 2006 as well as a third Annie nomination in 2007. All three were in the category "Best Music in an Animated Television Production" and shared with series composer James L. Venable. Her documentary film Hollywood, 90038 won the award for Best Documentary at the 2007 LA Femme Film Festival. She has also composed music for the video games Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time, Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking, and Rabbids Land.
Alberto Mielgo is a Spanish director, artist, and animator. His accolades include an Academy Award, four Emmy Awards and two Annie Awards. Mielgo was an Art Director at Disney's Tron: Uprising (2013) and made his debut as a director with animated short film "The Witness" (2019) created for Netflix anthology: Love, Death & Robots.