Joel Trussell

Joel Trussell is a director and artist based in Los Angeles, California best known for directing the 20 episode, award winning,[1] animated series Electric City which is created, written by and starring Tom Hanks.[2][3][4][5]

Trussell is additionally well known for directing several award winning music videos,[6][7][8][9] and many animated segments for Yo Gabba Gabba on Nickelodeon.[10] In 2008 he was selected by Mike Judge to direct the intro for The Animation Show.[11]

Pictoplasma has published his work in their Character Encyclopedia, and two collections of their Characters in Motion (2&3).[12] He was selected as a speaker at their 2011 event in New York City and the 2012 event in Berlin.[13]

He is currently working at Disney Animation, developing and co-producing a show called Pickle and Peanut with Fish Hooks creator Noah Z. Jones.

Music videos

Year Artist Song Title
2003 Kid606 "The Illness"
2004 Atomic Swindlers "Float"
2005 Jason Forrest "War Photographer"
2006 Coldcut "This Island Earth"
M. Ward "Chinese Translation"
2007 Morcheeba "Enjoy the Ride"
Morcheeba "Gained the World"
2008 Jakob Dylan "Evil is Alive and Well"
2009 The Gossip "Love Long Distance"
Kid606 "Mr. Wobble's Nightmare"
2012 M. Ward "The First Time I Ran Away"

References

  1. ↑ Hill, Naja. "Streamy Awards 2013: Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter.
  2. ↑ "Electric City - Yahoo! Screen". Electriccity.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  3. ↑ "Six Point Harness designs webisodes for Tom Hanks/Playtone". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  4. ↑ Wallenstein, Andrew (2012-01-08). "Hanks, Yahoo team for 'Electric City' - Entertainment News, Consumer Electronics Show, Media". Variety. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  5. ↑ "Yahoo and Tom Hanks to announce Net video project at CES". Content.usatoday.com. 2012-01-08. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  6. ↑ "Staff Lists: 100 Awesome Music Videos | Features". Pitchfork. 2006-06-20. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  7. ↑ Harvilla, Rob (2009-09-01). "In Praise Of Jason Forrest's "War Photographer" Video, Unjustly Excluded from Pitchfork's "Top 50 Videos of the 2000s" Feature - New York Music - Sound of the City". Blogs.villagevoice.com. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  8. ↑ "Ottawa International Animation Festival - History". 96.125.168.25. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  9. ↑ http://animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=221&Itemid=931
  10. ↑ "Yo Gabba Gabba!". Printmag.com. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  11. ↑ "The Animation Show 4 | USA". Denverfilm.org. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  12. ↑ "Characters in Motion, Vol. 3 | Pictoplasma Publishing". Publishing.pictoplasma.com. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  13. ↑ name="

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