Joe Brumm is an Australian animator. After working on multiple British animated children's shows, he created the animated Australian television series ''
Bluey''.
Early life
Brumm was born in
Winton in
Central West Queensland, he was the second eldest of three boys.
[ His father worked for the Department of Primary Industries, while his mother was a librarian.][
After moving to ]Cairns
Cairns (, ) is a city in Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland. The population in June 2019 was 153,952, having grown on average 1.02% annually over the preceding five years. The city is the 5th-most-p ...
when he was five years old, his family finally settled in the state's capital city of Brisbane when he was aged 12 where he began attending high school. He graduated from Marist College Ashgrove in 1995.
After finishing high school, he studied animation at Griffith University and graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Animation (Honours).
Career
After graduating university, Brumm relocated to London where he obtained work as an animator on several British series such as ''Charlie and Lola
Charlie and Lola are fictional children created by the English writer and illustrator Lauren Child in 2000. They were introduced in a series of picture books and later adapted as animated television characters. Lola is an energetic and imagina ...
'', '' Peppa Pig'', '' Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom'' and ''Tinga Tinga Tales
''Tinga Tinga Tales'' is a British flash animation, flash animated children's television series based on African folk tales and aimed at 4 to 6-year-olds. It was commissioned by the BBC for its CBeebies channel, and by Disney Channel for its D ...
''.[ Brumm decided the episodes of ''Bluey'' would centre around the two juvenile characters participating in play-based learning and creating their own adventures, creating a one-minute sample in 2016.][ Ludo Studio, a local company, picked it up and helped Brumm expand the episodes to five minutes each.][ Brumm and his wife Suzy subsequently created the first season of 52 seven-minute episodes which were released in Australia in 2018.][ The show has gone onto achieve commercial success and critical acclaim internationally.
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Other work
In 2001, Brumm created an animated short called ''Causes'', and he directed a 2015 short called ''The Meek''.
Awards
In October 2021, Brumm was named as Griffith University's Outstanding Alumnus.
In June 2023, he was named as a Queensland Great.
References
External links
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Living people
Queensland Greats
Australian animators
Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom
People from Central West Queensland
21st-century Australian artists
Griffith University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at Marist College Ashgrove