Bob Kurtz, founder of Kurtz & Friends Animation, is a director, producer, artist, and designer who primarily works in films and TV commercials. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute. He has taught at the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.
Selected filmography
Director / writer / designer / producer
Harold And His Amazing Green Plants (1984)
sequences theaterical feature films
Max Dugan Returns (1983) Jetsons: The Movie (1990) (You & Me animation sequence) City Slickers (1991) (also for City Slickers II) Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992) Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) Straight Talk (1992) Jurassic Park (1993) ("Mr. DNA" animated sequences) City Slickers II (1994) Four Rooms (1995) George of the Jungle (1997) Minority Report (2002) ("Pine & Oats" animated sequence) The Pink Panther (2006) Are We Done Yet? (2007) Gambitt (2012)
Other
The Way Things Work (3D-3 screen experience at Sony's Metreon) Chevron ("Dinosaur" commercial) Clubhouse (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only) Junior (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only) Sesame Street ("My Various Me's", "Lincoln Park Zoo", and "More Moths" animated sequences) Schoolhouse Rock! Earth ("Tiny Urban Zoo" scene)
TV
The Roman City (1994 TV movie) (animated version of the David Macaulay book) (Best Primetime Animation Emmy) Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noël (1996, TV movie) (Lily Tomlin special) (Peabody Award winner) Carlin on Campus (1984) ("Drawing on My Mind" animated sequences)
Awards
Winner of over 250 major awards including: Peabody Award Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, 1994 Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1991 Clio Awards International Festival of Short Films - Annecy, France U.S. Television & Film Festival - New York Ottawa/Hamilton Canadian International Animation Festival Chicago International Film Festival Society of Illustrators - New York London Television Advertising Awards Andy Awards Telly Awards
References
External links
Kurtz & Friends Animation web site
Bio at Chuckjones.com
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American animators American film directors American film producers American animated film directors American animated film producers California Institute of the Arts faculty Chouinard Art Institute alumni Primetime Emmy Award winners Film and television title designers