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winsor McCay Award
Recognition for career contributions to the art of animation
BruCe TiMM
World renowned artist/animator Bruce Timm is the creative
force behind many of Warner Bros. Animation’s greatest
successes of the past two decades, driving DC Comics’ most
recognized super heroes to new heights of popularity as the
focal point of television series and made-for-DVD films.
Timm’s current mission has been as executive producer of
the DC Universe Animated Original Movies, a series of PG-13rated
direct-to-DVD films. Under Timm’s guidance, Superman
Doomsday was released as the series inaugural film to great
fanfare and superb sales. Since then, Timm has worked to successfully deliver Justice League: New Frontier,
Batman Gotham Knight, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern: First Flight and Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
He is currently in production on several films for 2010, most notably the spring release of Justice League:
Crisis on Two Earths, and a series of animated shorts entitled DC Showcase.
Prior to undertaking the DC Universe series, Timm had been intimately involved with a host of DC Comics
characters – serving as producer for the popular Justice League and Justice League Unlimited television
series, as well as executive producer on the breakthrough hit, Teen Titans.
Timm initially joined Warner Bros. Television Animation in 1989 as a storyboard artist and character
designer for Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures. Later, he was promoted to serve as a producer
for Batman: The Animated Series (1992). He went on to work on Superman (1996), and the next installment
of the Batman series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures (1997). Timm continued his work as a producer
for Warner Bros. Animation, having helped to create an altogether new animated incarnation of Batman,
the futuristic Batman Beyond, and also served as producer on the feature-length direct-to-video Batman
Beyond: Return of The Joker (2000).
A lifelong comics fan, Bruce Timm practically grew up with a “pen and sketch pad in hand.” Completely selftaught,
he began his animation career in 1981, when he landed a job at Filmation as a layout artist working
on Blackstar. In 1982, he joined Don Bluth Productions as an assistant animator on The Secret of N.I.M.H.
Timm then returned to Filmation to work on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and She-Ra Princess of
Power. In 1984, Timm joined Marvel Productions as a character designer on G.I. Joe. He then took a short
leave from animation to join Mattel Toys as a freelance illustrator. Upon returning to animation, he served
as a character designer on the series The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse for Ralph Bakshi Productions in
1987 and The Beany and Cecil Show for DIC in 1988.
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