George has unleashed his imaginative powers all over the animation universe and has the credits and statues to prove it. The Emmy and Clio winning director joined W!LDBRAIN in 1999 and quickly became one of our key creative gurus.

Currently developing feature film projects for the studio, as well as continuing work on Higglytown Heroes, the popular Disney Channel series he co-created, George has a knack for dreaming up unforgettable characters. Some of these include Reality Chick, one of the stars on Oxygen Media’s X-Chromosome show and El Kabong, Cartoon Network’s resurrection of Quick Draw McGraw as a romantic western hero (which won a Gold Promax and Bronze BDA Award.)

George worked with legendary cult artist Frank Kozik as creative director on the award-winning web series Kozik’s Inferno and has also done numerous projects for Cartoon Network. His Flash-animated production of The Great Big Cartoony Club for CartoonNetwork.com was featured at Sundance Online Film Festival, and when they launched The Chuck Jones Show, it was George they entrusted to animate Chuck Jones’ famous icons, including Road Runner & Bugs Bunny, for the open, close, and interstitial segments of the show.

A fan of both the old school and the new, George has always looked to groundbreaking technology to build upon his traditional animation background. Back in the day, he used a crazy new tool called “motion capture” to create television’s first real-time cartoon character, Moxy, for Turner Broadcasting and Cartoon Network. On the vintage side, he knew that the low-tech, graphic technique he calls “Kinda-mationTM” would be perfect for the George of the Jungle music video he created for Walt Disney Records.

When George came to W!LDBRAIN, he’d already racked up plenty of awards and a stellar reel at Colossal Pictures, where he brought to life such cultural icons as the Trix Rabbit, Gary Larson’s Cavemen, a cartoon version of Prince, and Betty Boop, in her own half-hour television special for CBS. His commercials clients have included Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Old Navy, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, The Disney Channel, MTV, Prudential Securities and Nickelodeon.

Whether it's commercials or something more grandiose, George is happy to direct any kind of animated project. "I don't care if it's sleek computer images, or itchy little pencil lines," he says. "What I like about animation is the storytelling-- the clarity we're able to get, and the velocity of the ideas-- it still always seems like some kind of poetic magic trick."

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