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Russell Calabrese is the red-Converse-high-top-wearing, two-time Emmy-winning director of Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain and Where’s Lazlo: Camp Lazlo. A tireless champion of the animation industry, he is also currently an executive board member of the Animation Guild in addition to his service as a governor of the Television Academy’s Animation Peer Group. Calabrese got his start polishing animation cells and worked his way up the animation food chain at New York City studios like Perpetual Motion Pictures, Zander’s Animation Parlor and R/Greenberg Associates, doing commercials, television specials and features. In 1990 he made the move to Los Angeles, where he worked for Disney, Warner Bros., Film Roman and many others. His experience includes storyboards, layouts, assistant animation, animation and producing and directing. A friend to all animals and Mac Users, Calabrese sets himself apart with his sense of humor, infectious laugh and mad computer skillz — not to mention his mastery of traditional and nontraditional animation arts. An early adopter of Macromedia Director, Calabrese keeps his hands-on computer animation abilities up to date with Flash, Mirage, Maya and ToonBoom. He recently finished a stint at Cartoon Network, directing on Camp Lazlo, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Chowder and FlapJack.
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Chuck Sheetz has been working in television animation for over fifteen years. He grew up outside of Philadelphia, and moved to Los Angeles when he was nineteen years old to attend film school at UCLA. As an undergraduate, he completed his first animated film at the UCLA Animation Workshop, and is now a professor in that program teaching storyboarding and production. Sheetz started his professional career as an animation timer on the third season of The Simpsons. From there, he became an assistant director on The Critic, and then a director during the show’s second season. Over the past twelve years, he has directed episodes of The Simpsons, King of the Hill, The Critic and Drawn Together. He has also worked as producer and director on Disney’s Recess and What’s New Scooby-Doo? He was the director of “Treehouse of Horror XVlll,” the Simpsons Halloween show for 2007.
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