Craig Michael Bartlett (born October 18, 1956) is an American
animator, best known for writing and creating the Nickelodeon
television series Hey Arnold! and the PBS Kids television series
Dinosaur Train and Ready Jet Go!.Bartlett's first job, after
graduating from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington,
was at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon, where he learned the
art of stop-motion animation, working on movies such as The Adventures
of Mark Twain. Bartlett moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to animate the
"Penny" claymations for the second season of Pee-wee's Playhouse on
CBS. He later made an animated ID for NBC with Klasky Csupo.He later
worked at BRC Imagination Arts, directing projects such as Postcards
and Mystery Lodge for Knott's Berry Farm. He also animated the music
video for "Jurassic Park" by Weird Al Yankovic from the 1994 album
Alapalooza.Bartlett met the Nickelodeon execs while story editing
Rugrats in its first three seasons. He pitched Hey Arnold! to them in
the fall of 1993 and produced a pilot the next spring. The series was
greenlit in January 1995. Hey Arnold! was in production continuously
from 1995 to 2001, made by Bartlett's own production company,
Snee-Oosh, Inc, which he founded in 1986. The series culminated in a
TV movie originally titled Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, but
Nickelodeon decided to release it theatrically as Hey Arnold!: The
Movie, in June 2002.
animator, best known for writing and creating the Nickelodeon
television series Hey Arnold! and the PBS Kids television series
Dinosaur Train and Ready Jet Go!.Bartlett's first job, after
graduating from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington,
was at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon, where he learned the
art of stop-motion animation, working on movies such as The Adventures
of Mark Twain. Bartlett moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to animate the
"Penny" claymations for the second season of Pee-wee's Playhouse on
CBS. He later made an animated ID for NBC with Klasky Csupo.He later
worked at BRC Imagination Arts, directing projects such as Postcards
and Mystery Lodge for Knott's Berry Farm. He also animated the music
video for "Jurassic Park" by Weird Al Yankovic from the 1994 album
Alapalooza.Bartlett met the Nickelodeon execs while story editing
Rugrats in its first three seasons. He pitched Hey Arnold! to them in
the fall of 1993 and produced a pilot the next spring. The series was
greenlit in January 1995. Hey Arnold! was in production continuously
from 1995 to 2001, made by Bartlett's own production company,
Snee-Oosh, Inc, which he founded in 1986. The series culminated in a
TV movie originally titled Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, but
Nickelodeon decided to release it theatrically as Hey Arnold!: The
Movie, in June 2002.
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