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Kevin O'Brien is an American director and storyboard artist. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons , where he has collaborated on 35 episodes in the storyboard department, and on Futurama , having worked on four episodes as a storyboard artist and one as a director ("My Three Suns"). Recently he has worked on Pixar films Ratatouille and WALL-E .
In 2005 he won an Annie Award for "Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production" for The Incredibles .
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A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualising a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.
Jim Reardon is an American animator, storyboard artist, television writer, television director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the animated TV series The Simpsons. He has directed over 30 episodes of the series and was credited as a supervising director for seasons 9 through 15. Reardon attended the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, where one of his student projects, the satirical cartoon Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986), has become a cult classic through the likes of YouTube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and later worked on Tiny Toon Adventures. He has been described by Ralph Bakshi as "one of the best cartoon writers in the business".
Zachary Thomas "Zac" Moncrief is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, producer, and director, who most recently served as a supervising producer and director on The Adventures of Kid Danger. In 2009, an episode from Phineas and Ferb, which he directed entitled "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein", received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the category for Outstanding Special Class Short-format Animated Programs.
Kenji Kamiyama is a Japanese anime director.
Takuya Igarashi is a Japanese freelance storyboard artist and director who has worked for Toei Animation and Bones. He has also sometimes used the alias Jūgo Kazayama.
Will Meugniot is an American writer, storyboard and comics artist, film producer and director. He is known for his work on animated shows in the 1990s and 2000s.
Erik C. Wiese is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and writer who is best known for his work on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, beginning with his character development and design for the pilot episode, "Help Wanted", as well as the co-creator of The Mighty B!, where he directed all of the episodes, and served as the creative director, executive producer, writer, voice director and storyboard artist for the series. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
Gorō Taniguchi is a Japanese anime director, writer, producer and storyboard artist, who is among Sunrise's noted directors. He was born in Nisshin, Aichi, Japan.
Ryouki Kamitsubo is a Japanese director and storyboard artist best known for co-directing Hidamari Sketch with Akiyuki Shinbo.
Kazuki Akane is a Japanese director of Japanese animation. Until the early 2000s, he was a staff member of the anime studio Sunrise, where he collaborated with Shoji Kawamori to direct his most famous work, The Vision of Escaflowne. Since that time, he worked extensively with Satelight before going freelance once more to direct the Birdy the Mighty TV series, among other projects.
Masayuki Kojima is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, and director, best known for directing the acclaimed anime series Monster and Made in Abyss. He was born on March 11, 1961 in Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
Doug Lefler is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and storyboard artist, best known as director of the Dragonheart fantasy adventure film sequel Dragonheart: A New Beginning and The Last Legion.
Shin Oonuma is a Japanese anime director, animator, and storyboard artist. Oonuma's first employer in the anime industry was Office AO, but he is best known for his contributions to studios Shaft and Silver Link.
Ralph Zondag is a storyboard artist and animation director.
John Holmquist is an American television animation director. He has worked on several episodes of Rugrats as a director and storyboard artist from the late 1990s to early 2000s. Holmquist has also acted as a director for some episodes of Family Guy.
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"Jermaine" is the thirty-third episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time. In this episode, Finn and Jake are determined to reconnect with their reclusive brother, Jermaine, after Jake dreams of an encounter with him. It was written by Brandon Graham and Jesse Moynihan, who also served as storyboard artists. The episode is the first in the series to have Graham, known for his commercial and personal works in comics, as a writer and an artist.
Hiroko Utsumi is a Japanese anime director, animator, storyboard artist, and mangaka. She is best known for her work with Kyoto Animation, particularly as the original director of Free!, and for her later work at MAPPA, where she directed Banana Fish. She is a graduate of the Osaka Municipal College of Design.
Shinichi Omata is a Japanese director and storyboard artist best known for directing Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2016) and Kaguya-sama: Love is War (2019).
Toshimasa Suzuki is a Japanese director, animator, and storyboard artist. He joined Shaft in 1995 as an episode director and storyboard artist, and although he continues to work for Shaft, Suzuki commonly directs series with other studios, most notably with Xebec, where he made his series directorial debut with Heroic Age in 2007.