Bernard Derriman

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Bernard Derriman is an animator/director based in Australia.

He began his career in animation at Walt Disney Studios in Sydney. He worked as an Animator and Supervising Animator there until 2006, working on both television series and films.

He has also created a lot of his own work using Flash Animation. His first success was when he received the Best Comedy Award at the 2001 Tropfest Short Film Festival, in front of an audience of 100,000 people with his animated short "Chopper". The short was based on the feature film "Chopper", about the real life criminal Mark Brandon Read.

Derriman went on to co-create the animated series "Arj and Poopy", with US comedian Arj Barker. Their "Arj and Poopy" shorts have received world wide recognition, most notably winning the internet category at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2005 and 2006.

Other animated shorts include the music video for the TISM song Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me and the internet sensation "Two Fish in a Tank". Some of his commercial work includes creating the character for Unistraw's worldwide Sipahh™ Milk Flavouring Straws brand.

Derriman currently has a series in development with Cartoon Network.

He has recently been seen playing a role in the live action, 2006 Australian comedy hit, "Kenny"