El Tigre, WordWorld Nab Daytime Emmys

Sunday, August 30, 2009
By: Ramin Zahed

Nickelodeon’s fantastic-looking animated show El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera took home four Creative Arts Emmys this past Saturday. Created by husband-and-wife team Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, the Nick toon won the Individual Achievement in Animation award for storyboard artist Eddie Trigueros, production designer Gerald Dejesus and character designer Jorge Gutierrez. The show also won in the Best Directing in an Animated Program (Gabe Swarr, Dave Thomas, Andrea Romano). Nick’s The Mighty B! also won in the Individual Achievement in Animation category for the work of background key designer Larry Murphy.

The PBS show WordWorld won the Best Children’s Animated Program award (Don Moody, Executive Producer; Sue Hollenberg, Supervising Producer; Alex Kay, Producer; Jacqueline Moody, Producer; Tyler Bunch, Producer; Olexa Hewryk, Producer).

Here are some of the other animation-related winners:

New Approaches: Daytime Entertainment
I Met The Walrus
YouTube
Jerry Levitan, Producer
James Braithwaite, Pen
Illustrator/Animator
Alex Kurina, Digital Illustrator
Josh Raskin, Animator

New Approaches: Daytime Children’s
Sesame Street
PBS
Miles Ludwig, Executive Producer
Glace Chou, Supervising Producer
Tina Moglia, Producer
Johanna Egger, Senior Producer
Alison Folino, Producer
Meghann Artes, Editor
Russell Zambito, Art Director
John Caruso, Creative Director
Jessica Yin, Director, Online Projects
J. Milligan, Creative Director, Head Writer

Preschool Children’s Series
Between the Lions
PBS
Brigid Sullivan, Executive Producer
Norman Stiles, Executive Producer
Judith Stoia, Executive Producer
Christopher Cerf, Executive Producer
Beth Kirsch, Series Producer
Diane Hartman, Coordinating Producer
Chris Cardillo, Coordinating Producer
Bill Berner, Coordinating Producer
Rick Klein, Coordinating Producer
Philippa Hall, Coordinating Producer
Scott Colwell, Producer
Carol Klein, Producer

Special Class Animated Program
Back At The Barnyard
Nickelodeon
Steve Oedekerk, Executive Producer
Jed Spingarn, Supervising Producer/Co-Executive Producer
Margaret M. Dean, Producer
Paul Marshal, Producer
Kyle Jolly, Line Producer

Performer in an Animated Program
Biker Mice From Mars
4Kids On Fox
Jim Ward, As Eyemore, The Crusher

Achievement in Music Direction and Composition
Animalia
PBS
Christopher Elves, Composer

The Wonder Pets!
Nickelodeon
Jeffrey Lesser, Music Director
Larry Hochman, Lead Composer
J. Walter Hawkes, Composer
Martin Erskine, Composer

Original Song: Main Title and Promo
6TEEN
Cartoon Network
Song Title: 6Teen
Don Breithaupt, Composer/Lyricist
Anthony Vanderburgh, Composer/Lyricist

Achievement in Sound Editing: Live Action and Animation
Tak and the Power of Juju
Nickelodeon
Jake Allston, Supervising Sound Editor
Michael Petak, Dialogue Editor

Achievement in Sound Mixing: Live Action and Animation
Ben 10: Alien Force
Cartoon Network
Robert Serda, Production Mixer
John Hegedes, Re-Recording Mixer
Robert Hargreaves, Re-Recording Mixer

Reader Comments

• Julius Hill : cartoonist : FU Productions

  Monday, August 31, 2009

  Will Kick. bring back El Tigre now that it won 4 emmys?

• Norman L :

  Monday, August 31, 2009

  Marty Murphy designed Wait Til Your Father Gets Home.

• Leslie Stern : storyboard artist for CBA :

  Monday, October 19, 2009

  For my friends, Neil Pista and Sam Register, they are creators of Crash Bandicoot Animated. I wish to want on make a storyboard from the first episode of Crash Bandicoot Animated and of course, my badly step-brother Michael, wants to create Warner Bros\' Ratchet and Clank The Animated Series (late 2011) in future.
  
  For Neil Pista:
  
  CRASH BANDICOOT ANIMATED
  YTV,Cartoon Network
  Song Title: Kurasshu Bandy-Kuu-n!
  Marc Baril, Composer/Lyricist
  Ami Onuki,Yumi Yoshimura, Singers
  
  that\'s all!