Peter Hixson (born October 31, 1966) is an American

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artist living in

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. He has worked in television animation for the past 15 years and presently supervises animation for

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Television's '' All Hail King Julien''.

Early life and career

Peter was born in

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, as the second son of a US Navy officer. The family moved to Washington, D.C., soon after his birth and he grew up in Maryland and later the

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area of southeast Virginia. Peter spent occasional bursts of energy drawing and sketching when not occupied with schoolwork and repairing old Saabs. He also was drawn into competitive swimming and sailing pursuits, qualifying for

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in distance freestyle events and competing for national junior sailor titles in both small dinghies and sailboards. Peter graduated from

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in Medford, Massachusetts, with a BA in history in 1988. He later attended film school at

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in Washington, D.C. One of his animated student films, ''Five Female Persuasions'', won a Student Academy Award in Animation in 1992.Student Academy Award winners
/ref> Another animated film, ''Tennis'', won additional awards and screened in

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's Sick and Twisted Animation festivals. Peter moved to Los Angeles in 1993 and started at Klasky-Csupo Animation Studios, where he worked as an animation story editor and later as an animation timer. He has worked at a handful of Los Angeles animation studios on cable and broadcast animation series, including ''Real Monsters'', '' Duckman'', ''Wild Thornberries'', ''Mission Hill'', ''The Oblongs'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Penguins of Madagascar'', ''

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'' and '' All Hail King Julien''.

References

External links

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Movie Review: 'Trousers' Is Best Fit in Animation Fest
American animators 1966 births Living people Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni {{US-animator-stub