Hotel Transylvania

Jill Culton is an American animator, who is best known for her directorial debut on Sony's first animated movie, Open Season. Previously, she studied at the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. She was also a storyboard artist for various Pixar films such as Toy... Story and Toy Story 2 and also co-wrote the original treatment for Monsters Inc., She was also the animator for the character Turner for the film Cats Don't Dance. Culton is currently working as director for Sony Pictures Animation.
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Genndy Borisovich Tartakovsky is a Soviet Russian-born American television animator, director and producer. His best-known creations are Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and Sym-Bionic Titan. Tartakovsky will be directing Hotel Transylvania, which will... be his animated film debut. Although his Russian name Геннадий is normally transliterated as Gennady or Gennadiy, he changed its spelling to Genndy after moving from Russia to the US. Genndy Tartakovsky was born January 17, 1970 in Moscow to Jewish parents. His father, Boris, worked as a dentist for government officials and a Russian hockey team. His mother, Miriam, was an assistant principal at a school. He also has a brother, Alexander, who is two years older and currently a computer consultant in Chicago. Before coming to the United States, his family first moved to Italy, where he lived next to a German family. There, Tartakovsky says he was first drawn to art, inspired by a neighbor's daughter. Tartakovsky later commented, "I remember, I was horrible at it. For the life of me, I couldn't draw a circle.
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