Bob Kurtz

Bob Kurtz, founder of Kurtz & Friends Animation, is a director, producer, artist, and designer who primarily works in films and TV commercials. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute. He has taught at the character animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.

Director / writer / designer / producer

Harold And His Amazing Green Plants" 1984

sequences theaterical feature films

• Max Dugan Returns (1983)
• Jetsons: The Movie (1990) ('You & Me' animation sequence)
• City Slickers (1991) (also for City Slickers II)
• Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992)
• Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
• Straight Talk (1992)
• Jurassic Park (1993) ("Mr. DNA" animated sequence)
• City Slickers II (1994)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• George of the Jungle (1997)
• Minority Report (2002) ("Pine & Oats" animated sequence)
• The Pink Panther (2006)
• Are We Done Yet? (2007)
• Gambitt (2012)

Other'

• The Way Things Work (3D-3 screen experience at Sony's Metreon)
• Chevron ("Dinosaur" commercial)
• Clubhouse (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only)
• Junior (network ID's for German children's channel) (designer only)
• Sesame Street ("My Various Me's" and "More Moths" animated sequences)
• Schoolhouse Rock! Earth ("Tiny Urban Zoo" scene)

TV

• The Roman City (1994 tv movie) (animated version of the David Macaulay book) (Best Primetime Animation Emmy)
• Edith Ann's Christmas: Just Say Noël (1996, tv -movie) (Lily Tomlin special) (Peabody Award winner)
• Carlin on Campus (1984) 'Drawing on My Mind' animated sequences)

Awards

Winner of over 250 major awards including:

• Peabody Award
• Emmy Award
• Annie Award for Lifetime Achievement
• Clio Awards
• International Festival of Short Films - Annecy, France
• U.S. Television & Film Festival - New York
• Ottawa/Hamilton Canadian International Animation Festival
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Society of Illustrators - New York
• London Television Advertising Awards
• Andy Awards
• Telly Awards