Peter Avanzino

American animation director

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Peter Avanzino

Avanzino in July 2011

Born|  (1962-05-26) May 26, 1962 (age 62)
Occupation| Director
Years active| 1990-present
Employer| Rough Draft Studios
Website| peteravanzino.com

Peter Avanzino (born May 26, 1962) is an American animation director. He has directed several episodes of Futurama, and served as supervising director on the 6th and 7th seasons of the series. Avanzino works for Rough Draft Studios in Glendale, California. He has also directed episodes of Drawn Together, Duckman, The Wild Thornberrys, Sit Down, Shut Up, and The Ren & Stimpy Show. He was also a storyboard artist on The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Simpsons. Additionally, he directed the Christmas movie How Murray Saved Christmas. Avanzino currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife and kids.

## Career

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Avanzino had wanted to be a comic book artist after graduating from high school, but instead studied architecture; he started in the animation industry at Klasky Csupo to work for the second season of The Simpsons. He would work on the series intermittently as part of Rough Draft Studios until 2004.[1]

After Klasky Csupo had their Simpsons contract terminated by Gracie Films in favor of Film Roman, Avanzino moved to Spümcø to work for The Ren & Stimpy Show; he was one of the few hires at the studio early on during production of the second season. He served as a storyboard artist in episodes in the second season, storyboarding "Son of Stimpy"; after John Kricfalusi and Spümcø were fired for negligence, he transferred to Games Animation with his peers and directed "Stimpy's Fan Club", one of the series' most critically acclaimed episodes in place of Kricfalusi. He stayed in the series as a storyboard artist until the fourth season. He would rejoin Klasky Csupo to work on The Wild Thornberrys and Duckman before finally settling at Rough Draft Studios in 1998, having been acquainted with the studio while at Games Animation.[2]

As part of Rough Draft Studios, he would serve as storyboard artist and later director for Futurama; he had described it as one of his favorite working experiences, continuing work on the show to this day. Aside from collaborations with 20th Television (Animation), he had also directed the first season of Clash-A-Rama!, which Rough Draft Studios produced on commission by Supercell based on their video game Clash of Clans. Owing to his connection to Matt Groening he had also worked on Disenchantment.[1][3]

## Credits

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### Supervising Director

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* Baby Blues (unaired second season)
* Drawn Together
* Napoleon Dynamite
* Sit Down, Shut Up (with Rich Moore)
* Futurama (seasons 6-present)
* Clash-a-Rama (season one)
* Disenchantment (parts 1-4, with Dwayne Carey-Hill)

### Director

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* How Murray Saved Christmas (2014)

#### Sit Down, Shut Up

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* "Helen and Sue's High School Reunion"

#### Drawn Together

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* "Hot Tub"
* "The Other Cousin"
* "Super Nanny"
* "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special"
* "Lost in Parking Space, Part One"

#### Duckman

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* A Room with a Bellevue
* The Once and Future Duck
* Aged Heat 2: Women in Heat
* From Brad to Worse
* Ajax and Ajaxer
* Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'
* My Feral Lady
* Das Sub
* Class Warfare

#### Futurama

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* "The Series Has Landed"
* "A Flight to Remember"
* "Fear of a Bot Planet" (co-directed with Carlos Baeza, Ashley Lenz and Chris Sauve)
* "Xmas Story"
* "Bender Gets Made"
* "Parasites Lost"
* "Insane in the Mainframe"
* "Crimes of the Hot"
* "Spanish Fry"
* Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
* Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
* "The Late Philip J. Fry" Which he won a Prime Time Emmy *"Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour)#2010s for
* "Reincarnation"
* "The Six Million Dollar Mon"
* "Meanwhile"
* "The Impossible Stream"

#### The Ren & Stimpy Show

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* "Stimpy's Fan Club"

#### Disenchantment

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* "Love's Tender Rampage"
* "Tiabeanie Falls"

## References

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1. ^ a b Webb, Oliver (May 30, 2021). "An interview with Peter Avanzino". CloselyObservedFrame. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
2. ^ Komorowski 2017, p. 150.
3. ^ "Animation Director | Peter Avanzino Animation Director | United States". Peter Avanzino Anima. Retrieved November 30, 2024.

* Komorowski, Thad (2017). Sick Little Monkeys: The Unauthorized Ren & Stimpy Story. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629331836.

## External links

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* Peter Avanzino at IMDb

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Spümcø

TV shows|

* The Ren & Stimpy Show
* episodes
* The Ripping Friends
* Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"

Internet shorts|

* The Goddamn George Liquor Program
* Weekend Pussy Hunt

Cartoon Network|

* Boo Boo Runs Wild
* A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith
* Boo Boo and the Man

Music videos|

* "I Miss You"
* "Fuck Her Gently"

Video games|

* Yoake no Mariko
* Go! Go! Hypergrind

Characters|

* Ren and Stimpy
* The Ren & Stimpy Show characters
* George Liquor

Other works|

* Troop Beverly Hills (title sequence)
* "Harlem Shuffle"

Key people|

* John Kricfalusi
* Jim Smith
* Bob Camp
* Lynne Naylor
* Chris Reccardi
* Vincent Waller
* Bill Wray
* April March
* Richard Pursel
* Peter Avanzino
* Ron Hughart
* Mr. Lawrence
* Erik Wiese
* Aaron Springer
* Eric Bauza
* Nick Cross
* Stephen Worth
* Shane Glines

Related|

* The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil
* Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren and Stimpy Story

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Rough Draft Studios

Feature films|

| Theatrical|

* FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
* Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
* The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
* The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
* The Simpsons Movie (2007)
* The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

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Direct-to-DVD|

* Stitch! The Movie (2003)
* Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007)
* Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008)
* Futurama: Bender's Game (2008)
* Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009)
* Madea's Tough Love (2015)
* Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015)

Television|

* The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
* Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure (2002)
* The Electric Piper (2003)
* Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama (2005)
* Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)
* We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
* Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)

Short films|

* A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith
* Duck Dodgers - Attack of the Drones
* Inside the CIA
* MADtv's Spy vs. Spy
* The Whizzard of Ow

TV series|

* 3-South
* Adventure Time
* American Dragon: Jake Long
* Amphibia
* The Angry Beavers
* Baby Blues
* Beavis and Butt-Head
* Ben 10: Omniverse
* Benjamin Blümchen
* Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer
* Big City Greens
* The Brothers Grunt
* Camp Lazlo
* CatDog
* Catscratch
* ChalkZone
* Chibiverse
* Class of 3000
* Clone High
* Codename: Kids Next Door
* Cow and Chicken
* Craig of the Creek
* The Critic
* Danny Phantom
* Daria
* Dexter's Laboratory
* Dilbert
* Disenchantment
* Drawn Together
* Dragon Tales
* Eek! Stravaganza
* Evil Con Carne
* Family Guy
* Full English
* Futurama
* Gravity Falls
* The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
* Grim & Evil
* Hailey's On It!
* Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
* Harold and the Purple Crayon
* Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
* I Am Weasel
* Jackie Chan Adventures
* Jessica's Big Little World
* Johnny Bravo
* Jumanji
* Kim Possible
* King of the Hill
* Korgoth of Barbaria
* The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
* The Looney Tunes Show
* The Maxx
* My Life as a Teenage Robot
* The Nanny
* Napoleon Dynamite
* New Looney Tunes
* The Oblongs
* The Owl House
* Phineas and Ferb
* Pinky and the Brain
* The Patrick Star Show
* The Powerpuff Girls
* The Ren & Stimpy Show
* The Replacements
* Rocko's Modern Life
* Sammy
* Samurai Jack
* Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
* Sheep in the Big City
* The Simpsons
* Sit Down, Shut Up
* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Squirrel Boy
* Summer Camp Island
* Star vs. the Forces of Evil
* Star Wars: Clone Wars
* Steven Universe
* Steven Universe Future
* Sym-Bionic Titan
* Tarantula
* Tig N' Seek
* Timon & Pumbaa
* Tom and Jerry Tales
* The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
* Uncle Grandpa
* We Baby Bears
* We Bare Bears
* Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
* The X's

People|

* Gregg Vanzo
* Claudia Katz
* Peter Avanzino
* Dwayne Carey-Hill
* Rich Moore

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