Lance Kramer

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Lance Kramer is an animation director on The Simpsons and Futurama . He was an additional sequence director for The Simpsons Movie . He also worked as an assistant animator on Tom and Jerry: The Movie and served as a storyboard artist for Garfield and Friends .

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Biography

Kramer graduated from Bismarck High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. He began studying chemical engineering at the University of North Dakota, [1] before moving to California where he graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in film production. A two-minute animated cartoon, "Denny Goes Air-Surfing", which he produced as a class assignment was selected for Spike and Mike's 1991 Festival of Animation. [2] In it, a young dragon named Denny decides to air-surf on a 747, to the accompaniment of Joe Satriani's instrumental rock song "Surfing with the Alien". [3] [4] The following year, Kramer's four-minute animation titled Singing Ding A Lings was shown at the 1992 Festival of Animation, to mixed reviews. It featured a dog and a chipmunk or squirrel sitting on a park bench, [2] and was described as "an utterly absurd, madcap depiction"; [5] a "wisecracking homage to Loony Tunes"; [6] and "tedious and jerkily drawn". [7]

Kramer won an internship, and then a job, with a Burbank animation company, in which he painted for the Garfield and Friends cartoon series. [1] The company Kramer worked for began animating The Simpsons from Season Four, and Kramer was selected as an animator. [1] [4] In 2000, he began directing episodes. [1]

The Simpsons episodes

Kramer directed the following episodes:

Season 11

Season 12

Season 13

Season 14

Season 16

Season 18

Season 19

Season 20

Season 21

Season 22

Season 23

Season 25

Season 26

Season 28

Season 29

Season 30

Season 32

Futurama episodes

Kramer directed the following episodes:

Season 7

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Winter, Deena (June 25, 2000). "Animator always loved to draw". The Bismarck Tribune. Bismarck, North Dakota. p. 125. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  2. 1 2 Stein, Pat (January 24, 1992). "Festival of Animation features the cream of the crop". North County Blade-Citizen. Solana Beach, California. p. 7. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  3. ↑ Adolphson, Sue (Mar 31, 1991). "Animation". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. p. 34. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  4. 1 2 Swissler, Lori (August 7, 1992). "Talking with Mike". The Californian. Temecula, California. p. 65. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  5. ↑ Stanley, John (Apr 5, 1992). "Animation". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. p. 26. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  6. ↑ Garrett, Robert (April 3, 1992). "Animation: Less than the sum of its parts". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 94. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  7. ↑ Mazey, Steven (April 2, 1993). "Festival spotlights animation". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. p. 47. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  8. ↑ Krantz, David (2019). "Is Yellow the New Green? The Banal Environmentalism of The Simpsons". In Du Vernay, Denise; Waltonen, Karma (eds.). The Simpsons' Beloved Springfield Essays on the TV Series and Town That Are Part of Us All. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 181. ISBN   9781476636122 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  9. ↑ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays--Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 283. ISBN   9781476636467 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Whitlock, Annie McMahon (2023). Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using The Simpsons to Teach Social Studies. Information Age Publishing. ISBN   9798887304052 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  11. 1 2 3 Feltmate, David (2017). Drawn to the Gods. Religion and Humor in The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy. NYU Press. pp. 228–229. ISBN   9781479884551 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  12. ↑ Duchaney, Brian N. (2019). ""Will you take us to Mt. Splashmore?" Commercials and Consumerism". In Du Vernay, Denise; Waltonen, Karma (eds.). The Simpsons' Beloved Springfield Essays on the TV Series and Town That Are Part of Us All. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 91. ISBN   9781476636122 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  13. ↑ Hunt-Barron, Sarah; Hartsell, Richard (2017). "Poking It with a Shtick: Humor as Hermeneutic in the Pre-Service Teacher Education Classroom". In Janak, Edward; Sourdot, Ludovic A. (eds.). Educating Through Popular Culture: You're Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics. Lexington Books. p. 184. ISBN   9781498549189 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  14. ↑ Burke, Liam (2015). The Comic Book Film Adaptation. Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre. University Press of Mississippi. p. 333. ISBN   9781626745186 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  15. ↑ Freeman, Carrie Packwood (2014). "Lisa and Phoebe, Lone Vegetarian Icons: At Odds with Television's Carnonormativity". In Macey, Deborah A.; Ryan, Kathleen M.; Springer, Noah J. (eds.). How Television Shapes Our Worldview Media Representations of Social Trends and Change. Lexington Books. p. 212. ISBN   9780739187050 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  16. ↑ Burg, Jennifer Richardson (2019). "RIP in Springfield: Rhetorics of Death". In Du Vernay, Denise; Waltonen, Karma (eds.). The Simpsons' Beloved Springfield Essays on the TV Series and Town That Are Part of Us All. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 65. ISBN   9781476636122 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
  17. ↑ Issa, Islam (2021). Shakespeare and Terrorism. Taylor & Francis. p. 208. ISBN   9781000459319 . Retrieved 29 March 2025.
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