Jim Kammerud

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Jim Kammerud (born July 23, 1960) is an American director, writer, producer and animator, best known for his work with the Walt Disney Company.

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Kammerud attended the Ohio State University in the mid-1980s. There he developed his cartooning style by working as an editorial cartoonist, as well as creating the comic strip "It's Working", for The Lantern , the University's student newspaper. Also on staff at The Lantern at the time was Jeff Smith, later known for the comic book Bone .

After college, while still living in Columbus, Ohio, Kammerud and Smith formed the Character Builders animation studio. [1] There, Kammerud began working on Rover Dangerfield and worked as an animator and storyboard artist for Bébé's Kids as well as Space Jam . He became involved with Disney as sequence director for the additional animation in Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World and later joined to direct and design the new characters in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea . His next film as director was 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure , when he also worked on part of the screenplay. His second film where he worked on the screenplay was Tarzan II , in addition to producing the film, and his most recent Disney project, The Fox and the Hound 2 is his first film without co-direction from Brian Smith. He also worked on The Aristocats II, which has since been shelved after the decision to drastically reduce the number of direct-to-video sequels made by Disney.

He has also done storyboards for many non-Disney animated films with Toronto-based animation/animatic studio House of Cool, including Gnomeo & Juliet , Ice Age: Continental Drift , Escape from Planet Earth , Epic , The Nut Job and Rio 2 .

In 2009, Kammerud was featured in The Cartoonist, a documentary film on the life and work of Jeff Smith, creator of Bone. [2]

Filmography

YearTitleRole
1992 Bébé's Kids story artist
1994 The Swan Princess animator
1995 A Goofy Movie story artist
1996 Space Jam supervising animator
1998 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World sequence director
2000 The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea director/character designer
2003 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure director/story/screenplay
2005 Tarzan II co-producer/screenplay
2006 The Fox and the Hound 2 director
2011 Gnomeo & Juliet additional story artist
2012 Ice Age: Continental Drift story artist
2013 Escape from Planet Earth story artist
Epic story artist
2014 Rio 2 additional story artist
2015 The Peanuts Movie head of story
2016 The Secret Life of Pets story artist (uncredited)
2017 The Emoji Movie story artist
The Lego Ninjago Movie story artist (uncredited)
2018 The Grinch story artist (uncredited)
2021 Space Jam: A New Legacy story artist

Notes and references

  1. "Animation Business Moves Eastward". Associated Press .
  2. "The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE and the Changing Face of Comics". Archived from the original on 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2020-02-04.


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