People I wouldn't mind working with in Animation

Chris Battle is an American animation character design artist, best known for his work on the hit Cartoon Network shows TEEN TITANS GO, POWERPUFF GIRLS, DEXTER'S LABORATORY, and SAMURAI JACK, as well as projects for Disney, Marvel, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros, and more.

Born and raised in the sunny beachside town of Santa Monica, CA, a steady childhood diet of cartoons, comics, movies and video games led him towards the logical career choice: Drawing silly stuff for TV. Chris, his wife and their daughter make their home in Los Angeles and they like pancakes.

C.H. Greenblatt was born on June 17, 1972 in Plano, Texas, USA as Carl Harvey Greenblatt. He is a writer and producer, known for Fish Hooks (2010), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and Chowder (2007). He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in advertising. He was an art director for commercials in New York City following graduation. Steve Hillenburg, creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, picked Greenblatt up to storyboard on the show after seeing some of his work in cartooning. He boarded on the series from 1999 to 2003 following season 3's completion. He came back to board and voice on a couple episodes for season 4 and 5. Greenblatt is considered to be one of the greatest comedy writers by critics and fans in modern times. Scott Thill of Cartoon Brew praised Greenblatt as one of the most influential comedy writers with innovative comedic elements. Cartoon Brew also said Greenblatt "has logged a decade-and-a-half across studios and shows". James Poniewozik of Time credited Greenblatt as defining SpongeBob's comedic style. Greenblatt was one of the writers of the SpongeBob episode "Band Geeks", considered by many to be the best episode of the entire series. SpongeBob writer Kaz recalled writing with Greenblatt fun and said he was full with "weird energy." He is currently working at Warner Brothers where he is executive producing Jellystone. He also mentors a Mahwah, NJ native in animation and is a recurring voice actor on Mexiguin.

Bryan Arnett is a graphic and digital artist who is employed by Walt Disney Television Studios Production Company. He has gained notoriety through his efforts as a character and prop designer on various television series. His notable efforts include The Mighty B! (2008-2011), Gravity Falls (2012), and Wonder Over Yonder (2013-2014). Presently, he is contributing to the Mickey Mouse (2014-2016) television series.

Joe Murray was born on 3 May 1961 in San Jose, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Rocko's Modern Life (1993), Camp Lazlo! (2005) and Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019). He has been married to Carol Wyatt since May 2011. They have two children. He was previously married to Aleide Daley and Diane Murray.

Karl Hadrika is known for Roadkill Redemption (2013), Epic (2013) and Becky Prim (2016).

Megan Boyd is known for PJ and Mr. Yes (2021), Middlemost Post (2021) and Big City Greens (2018).

Everett Peck was born on 9 October 1950 in Oceanside, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994), Godzilla: The Series (1998) and Squirrel Boy (2006). He was married to Helen Vita. He died on 14 June 2022 in Solana Beach, California, USA.

Craig McCracken has been interested in drawing and animation since the age of three. Some of his sources of inspiration are Japanese anime, Super Friends (1973), Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986) and Little Golden Books. After briefly considering a career as a comic book illustrator, McCracken studied animation at Cal Arts in LA (along with fellow classmate and Dexter's Laboratory (1996) creator Genndy Tartakovsky. His most famous creation, The Powerpuff Girls (1998), began life in a student film under the less-cutesy title, Whoopass Stew! (1992), it was quickly renamed The Powerpuff Girls (1998).

Thurop Van Orman was born on 26 April 1976 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (2008), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) and The Little Prince (2015).

Genndy Tartakovsky was born and raised in Moscow, USSR. He and his family moved to Chicago, IL when he was 7 years old, after his father defected to the US. His interest in comic books and animation led him to study animation at CalArts in Los Angeles. While he was there he produced two student films, one of which was the basis of his series Dexter's Laboratory (1996). The character of Dee-Dee was inspired by his older brother Alex, who would often spoil younger brother Genndy's plans (as Dee-Dee does to Dexter). His first long form directing work was for the TV movie of the series, Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip (1999). He also directed animation for his collaborator Craig McCracken on The Powerpuff Girls (1998) and The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002).

His most celebrated work was the epic animated series Samurai Jack (2001), featuring a time-traveling samurai in a battle of good vs. evil. He stopped work on the series to produce Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) as a direct story tie-in to the beginning of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). He then directed animation for the Adult Swim pilot Korgoth of Barbaria (2006). Plans were up in the air for over a decade for a possible movie conclusion to Samurai Jack, as well as directing a sequel to The Dark Crystal (1982). He created storyboards for the action-packed opening of Iron Man 2 (2010) during this time period.

Genndy produced another dynamic TV series Sym-Bionic Titan (2010), before finally landing his first feature on Hotel Transylvania (2012), which would involve taking over a tumultuous production and incorporating 2D techniques to 3D animation. Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) was the first film for which he had creative control over the entire production, although it was still in the style developed during the first film. In 2017, he finally returned to direct a darker season of Samurai Jack to conclude the story on Adult Swim. He is currently directing Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018).

Emmy and Annie award winning Jorge R. Gutierrez is a Mexican animator, painter, voice actor, writer, and director. Born in Mexico City, raised in Tijuana, CalArts Experimental Animation BFA & MFA, Gutierrez has completed various films, cartoons, and paintings exploring his love affair with Mexican pop and folk culture. Gutierrez was the director & co-writer of the Guillermo Del Toro produced animated feature The Book of Life for Fox which earned him a 2014 Golden Globe Award nomination. He was also the writer & director of the Emmy nominated Son of Jaguar VR short for Google. Along with his wife and muse, Sandra Equihua, they created the multiple Emmy Award-winning animated series El Tigre, The Adventures of Manny Rivera for Nickelodeon. Gutierrez most recently created, wrote and directed the event series Maya and the Three for Netflix which recently won 4 Emmys and 2 Annie Awards, including Best Children's TV/Media award. Gutierrez is currently developing a Netflix animated feature named I, Chihuahua! with Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias.

Ian Jones-Quartey was born on 18 June 1984 in Columbia, Maryland, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017), Steven Universe (2013) and OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes (2018). He has been married to Rebecca Sugar since 4 December 2019.

Dave Wasson was born on 11 September 1968 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Cuphead Show! (2022), Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2012) and Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998).

Alex Kirwan was born on 20 December 1977 in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Alex is a producer and art director, known for My Life as a Teenage Robot (2002), Wander Over Yonder (2013) and Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998).

James Garland Quintel, or simply JG, was born on September 14, 1982, in Hanford, CA, to Terri (nee Morris) and James Quintel. Growing up in a rather boring town, he and friends would have to entertain themselves to pass time, many of these experiences grew into influences for many episodes of Regular Show.

As he grew up, he grew fond of drawing, leading him going to California Institue of the Arts (CalArt). There, he and friends compete in 48Hour completions every weekend they would throw a word into a hat, draw a word, and develop a cartoon from the word in 48 hour rushes. Two films that came out of this were "The Man From Loliland" & "2 in The Am Pm." These cartoons featured his voice works, alongside with future collaborator Sam Marin. The features included pretypes of such characters as Mordecai, Benson, and Pops.

After graduating, he got an internship at Cartoonetwork, working on such cartoons as Camp Lazlo & The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. Soon enough, he was finally able to pitch what is now Regular Show, for a short lived block known as 'Cartoonstitute' when the block was dropped, Regular Show was picked up as a series.

Stephen McDannell Hillenburg is the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Nickelodeon's highest-rated cartoons for children and a staple of American television. He was born on August 21, 1961 in Fort Sill, a United States Army post in Lawton, Oklahoma, to Nancy (Dufour) Hillenburg and Kelly Neugent Hillenburg Jr.

Raised in Anaheim, California, he became fascinated with marine biology as a child and later developed an interest in art. He started his professional career in 1984 teaching marine biology at the Orange County Marine Institute. He wrote 'The Intertidal Zone', a comic book about tide-pool animals which he used to educate his students.

In 1989, two years after leaving teaching, Hillenburg enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts to pursue a career in animation. He was later offered a job on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rocko's Modern Life (1993), after his success with short films The Green Beret (1992) and Wormholes (1992), which he created while studying animation.

In 1994, Hillenburg began developing The Intertidal Zone characters and concepts for what would become SpongeBob SquarePants. The show premiered in 1999 and has aired since then. He also directed The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), which he originally intended to be the series finale. However, Nickelodeon wanted to produce more episodes, so Hillenburg resigned as the showrunner. He went back to making short films, with Hollywood Blvd, USA (2014).

In 2015, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) was released; It marked Hillenburg's return to the franchise, after he co-wrote the story and acted as an executive producer on the project.

Aside from two Emmy Awards and six Annie Awards for SpongeBob SquarePants, Hillenburg also received an accolade from Heal the Bay for his efforts on elevating marine life awareness, as well as the Television Animation Award from the National Cartoonists Society. Despite all this, he was involved in public controversies, including one that centered on speculation over the SpongeBob character's intended sexual orientation.

Hillenburg was diagnosed in 2017 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He stated that he would continue to work on his show for as long as possible. He died at age 57 on November 26, 2018 in San Marino, California, a year and a half after his diagnosis.

Eddie Trigueros is a graphic and digital artist who is employed by Walt Disney Television Studios Production Company. He has gained notoriety through his efforts as a director and storyboard artist on various movies and television series. His notable efforts include The Mighty B! (2008-2011), Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2013), and Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2012-2013). Presently, he is contributing to the Mickey Mouse (2015-2016) and Wander Over Yonder (2013-2016) television series.

Craig Kellman was born on 28 September 1971 in North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He is a director, known for Penguins of Madagascar (2014), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) and Samurai Jack (2001).

Dave Thomas was born on 3 February 1972 in California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Wander Over Yonder (2013), The Fairly OddParents (2001) and El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera (2007).

Katie Rice was born on 12 September 1981 in Marin County, California, USA. She is a director, known for The Book of Life (2014), Camp Weedonwantcha (2017) and Animaniacs (2020). She has been married to Adam Wallander since 24 September 2016.

Sunil Hall was born on 17 March 1979 in Altadena, California, USA. Sunil is a writer and director, known for The Mighty Ones (2020), Pickle and Peanut (2015) and The Penguins of Madagascar (2008).

Heather got her start in 1999 as a storyboard revisionist on SpongeBob Squarepants at Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California. She went on to become a storyboard artist on shows such as The Fairly Oddparents, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and My Life As a Teenage Robot, for which she received an Emmy Nomination as a writer in 2006. From 2005 to 2007, she directed the Disney animated series, "The Replacements," created by Dan Santat. Heather has had over 30 books published through Random House Children's Division, Walter Foster, Publications International, Simon & Schuster's Simon Spotlight and others. These books feature well-known characters from Disney and Nickelodeon, such as SpongeBob Squarepants, Doc McStuffins, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Elena of Avalor, Star Wars and more. Since 2020, Heather storyboarded on Nickelodeon's all-new "The Patrick Star Show" and "Kamp Koral."

Jill Friemark is known for Hercules (1997), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Mulan (1998).

Aliki Theofilopoulos was born on June 14, 1972 in La Jolla, California, USA. She is known for her work on Disney's Descendants Wicked World (2016), Phineas and Ferb (2007), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and Hercules (1997). She married Songwriter and Music Producer, Emanuel "Eman" Kiriakou in March, 2020. She was previously married to Baron Grafft whom with she has two children.

Sean Charmatz was born on 28 August 1980 in San Diego, California, USA. He is a director, known for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and Trolls (2016). He was previously married to Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz.