Antz

Tim Johnson is an American animation director specializing in CGI animation. Johnson has directed in many films such as Antz, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Over the Hedge. Johnson studied at Northwestern University where he earned a BA in English Literature, he also produced two animated... films, both of which he earned Richard Grant Organization Award. Upon graduating, he worked for two yers as a freelance animator and director. His introduction to computer animation came in 1985 while he worked on the staff at Post Effects in Chicago. He also directed the first CG Pillsbury Doughboy commercial. He later joined Pacific Data Images in 1989 and co-founded the animation division in 1995. Tim won two Annie awards on Antz and Over the Hedge and an Audience Award on Over the Hedge and a Grand Prize in The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror VI. He served as executive producer for How to Train Your Dragon in 3D. He has most recently served the director of the Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special.
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Eric Darnell is an American director, writer, voice actor, songwriter and animator. He is best known for co-directing Antz with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with Tom McGrath. Darnell attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village,... Kansas, where he was a writer for the school newspaper the Harbinger. He studied broadcast journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. After graduating in 1983, he spent four years working on experimental films, which helped him get accepted into the Experimental Animation program study at the California Institute of the Arts. He directed the music video for the 1989 R.E.M. song "Get Up". When Darnell graduated, he joined Pacific Data Images, where he worked as a character animator on the 1991 Hanna-Barbera Halloween special The Last Holloween. He also directed the short film Gas Planet. In 1998, he made his directorial debut for the movie Antz for PDI/DreamWorks. He worked on research and development for PDI in The Prince of Egypt. He then worked as the writer for the song "Welcome to Duloc" on the 2001 film Shrek, for which he also worked as story artist.
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