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Jim Smith (animator)
James Carl Jobb (born October 8, 1954), known professionally as Jim Smith, is an American animator and musician. He worked on '' Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures'' with his long-time working partner John Kricfalusi. Smith later briefly worked on ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', and then along with Kricfalusi, Bob Camp and Lynne Naylor he founded Spümcø, where he co-created ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' and ''The Ripping Friends ''The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men!'' (also known as ''The Ripping Friends'') is an animated television series, created by John Kricfalusi, creator of ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' on Nickelodeon. The series aired for one season on Fox ...''. He is also the one playing the guitar for the ''Ren & Stimpy'' theme in the intro. His performance name is Jelly-Röel. External links Jim Smith's blog* References 1954 births Animators from Texas Living people Spümcø People from Lubbock, Texas {{US-animator-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock ( ) is the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of government of Lubbock County. With a population of 260,993 in 2021, the city is also the 85th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 325,245 in 2021. Lubbock's nickname, "Hub City," derives from it being the economic, educational, and health-care hub of the multicounty region, north of the Permian Basin and south of the Texas Panhandle, commonly called the South Plains. The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world and is heavily dependent on water from the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation. Lubbock is home to Texas Tech University, the sixth-largest college by enrollment in the state. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ren & Stimpy Show
''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' (also known as ''Ren & Stimpy'') is an American animated television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. Originally produced by Spümcø for Nickelodeon, the series aired from August 11, 1991, to December 16, 1995, with a total of five seasons and 52 episodes. The series follows the adventures of Ren Höek, an emotionally unstable and sociopathic chihuahua dog; and Stimpy, a good-natured and dimwitted manx cat. ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' is the third of Nickelodeon's original animated seriesknown as "Nicktoons"alongside ''Rugrats'' and '' Doug''. In contrast with other shows on the network, it has generated controversy for its dark humor, sexual innuendos, adult humor, violence, and shock value. This controversy contributed to the production staff's altercations with Nickelodeon's Standards and Practices department, in addition to Spümcø's failure to deliver episodes on time, all of which led to Kricfalusi's termination from the show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samurai Jack
''Samurai Jack'' is an American animated action-adventure television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television. Tartakovsky conceived ''Samurai Jack'' after finishing his work on his first Cartoon Network original series, ''Dexter's Laboratory'', which premiered in 1996. ''Samurai Jack'' was inspired by ''Kung Fu'', the 1972 televised drama starring David Carradine, and Tartakovsky's fascination with samurai culture. The titular character is an unnamed Japanese samurai prince who wields a mystic katana capable of cutting through virtually anything. He sets out to free his kingdom after it is taken over by an evil, shapeshifting demon lord known as Aku. The two engage in a fierce battle, but just as the prince is about to deal the final strike, Aku sends him forward in time to a dystopian future ruled by the tyrannical demon. Adopting the name "Jack" after being addressed as such by beings in this time period, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The X's
''The X's'' is an American animated television series created by Carlos Ramos for Nickelodeon. The series centers on a family of spies who must conceal their identity from the outside world, but often have trouble in doing so. It had a single season of 20 episodes (1 unaired) airing from November 25, 2005, to November 25, 2006. Although it was compared to ''The Incredibles'' and '' Alias'', Ramos has stated that the show takes inspiration from the James Bond film series, the 1960s TV series ''Get Smart,'' and the 1960s TV series '' The Avengers''. Synopsis The X's work for SUPERIOR. Mr. and Mrs. X have their daughter named Tuesday, their younger son named Truman and many gadgets at their disposal. An organization called S.N.A.F.U. (short for Society of Nefarious and Felonious Undertakings) is continually trying to cause trouble for the X's through their plans to take over the world. Characters Superior * Mr. X (voiced by Patrick Warburton) – Family patriarch, team leader of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiny Toon Adventures
''Tiny Toon Adventures'' is an American animated comedy television series that was broadcast from September 14, 1990, to December 6, 1992. It was the first collaborative effort of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation after being conceived in the late 1980s by Tom Ruegger. The show follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from the '' Looney Tunes'' series. The pilot episode, "The Looney Beginning", aired as a prime-time special on CBS on September 14, 1990, while the series itself was featured in first-run syndication for the first two seasons. The final season was aired on Fox Kids. The series ended production in 1992 in favor of ''Animaniacs'', which premiered a year later; however, two specials were produced in 1994. A reboot series, ''Tiny Toons Looniversity'', was announced in October 2020. Premise Setting ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' is a cartoon set in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ripping Friends
''The Ripping Friends: The World's Most Manly Men!'' (also known as ''The Ripping Friends'') is an animated television series, created by John Kricfalusi, creator of ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' on Nickelodeon. The series aired for one season on Fox Kids, premiering on September 22, 2001 and ending on January 26, 2002. The show was subsequently picked up for syndication by Adult Swim, where it reran from 2002 to 2004. The show occasionally airs in Canada on Teletoon. The show also aired briefly in the United Kingdom on the CNX channel and on ABC in Australia. History Kricfalusi and his long-time partner Jim Smith created the ''Ripping Friends'' before they created the similar superhero Powdered Toast Man for ''The Ren & Stimpy Show''. After Nickelodeon fired Kricfalusi from ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' in September 1992, he had plans to make a feature film starring the world's "manliest men". The feature film plan was scrapped, but the characters were used in ''The Ripping Friends''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Adventures
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kricfalusi
Michael John Kricfalusi ( ; born September 9, 1955), known professionally as John K., is a Canadian illustrator, blogger, voice actor and former animator. He is the creator of the animated television series ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', which was highly influential on televised animation during the 1990s. From 1989 to 1992, he was heavily involved with the first two seasons of the show in virtually every aspect of its production, including providing the voice of Ren Höek and other characters. In 2009, he won the Inkpot Award. Born in Quebec, Kricfalusi spent his early childhood in Germany and Belgium before returning to Canada at age seven. He acquired his skills largely by copying cartoons from newspapers and comic books as a child, and by studying cartoons and their production systems from the 1940s and 1950s. His main influence is Bob Clampett. After moving to Los Angeles in 1978, he collaborated with Ralph Bakshi and worked for Filmation, Hanna-Barbera, and DIC Entertainment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Camp
Robert Frank Camp (born February 7, 1956) is an American animator, writer, cartoonist, comic book artist, storyboard artist, director, and producer. Camp has been nominated for two Emmys, a CableACE Award, and an Annie Award for his work on ''The Ren & Stimpy Show''. Career Camp started his animation career as a designer for animated series such as '' ThunderCats'', ''Silverhawks'', ''TigerSharks'', and several other series produced by Rankin/Bass. He then worked as a designer on ''The Real Ghostbusters'' for DiC, and later as a storyboard artist on ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' for Warner Bros. Television. Camp was a co-founder of and director for Spümcø, the animation studio that created ''The Ren & Stimpy Show''. He played a major role in the studio's creative force until September 21, 1992, when he left to work for Games Productions (a.k.a. Games Animation), the animation studio Nickelodeon initially created to continue work on ''The Ren and Stimpy Show'' after Spümcø an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynne Naylor
Rae Naylor (born November 7, 1953) is a Canadian animator, artist, designer, director, and producer for television. She is best known for co-creating DreamWorks' ''The Mighty Ones'', co-founding the animation studio Spümcø with John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, and Jim Smith, and co-developing ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' for Nickelodeon. She also worked on '' Batman: The Animated Series'', ''The Powerpuff Girls'', ''Samurai Jack'', ''Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!'', ''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi'', ''My Life as a Teenage Robot'', and ''Wander Over Yonder''. Career Naylor attended Sheridan College. She co-founded Spümcø and was involved in the development of ''Ren & Stimpy''. ''Ren & Stimpy'' was criticized for violence with adult, bathroom, dark and sexual humor that TV scarcely uses; it was also praised by some critics and audiences and inspired more innovative satirical cartoons such as ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', ''Rocko's Modern Life'', ''South Park'', ''Family Guy'', and ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spümcø
Spumco, Inc. (stylized as SPüMCø) was an American animation studio that was active from 1989 to 2005 and based in Los Angeles, California. The studio was best known for working on the first two seasons of ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' for Nickelodeon and for various commercials. The studio won several awards, including an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject for the music video of the song " I Miss You" by Björk. Spümcø was founded by animators John Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, Jim Smith and Lynne Naylor. Kricfalusi named the company after the fictional person "Raymond Spüm", whom he jokingly described as the inventor of animation. The golden age of American animation (exemplified by the 1940s cartoons by Bob Clampett and Tex Avery) served as inspiration for the surreal and highly expressive house style of which Spümcø became well-known. History Origins In the 1980s, animators John Kricfalusi and Lynne Naylor attempted to sell original cartoon ideas while working for v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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