Tuck Tucker

Tuck Tucker
Born	Lynchburg, VA
Other names	Bily Tucker Bill Tucker William Tucker Billy Bob Tucker William 'Tuck' Tucker
Occupation	Writer Artist Animator Director Songwriter
Years active	1988-present
Known for	Hey Arnold! SpongeBob SquarePants

Tuck Tucker is an American writer, artist, animator, songwriter, and director best known for Spongebob Squarepants^[1]

Early life and education

Tuck Tucker was born in Lynchburg, Virginia with a Hokie dad.^[2] While in school, he wasn't doing so well in school so his parents put him into a private school. He would spend his time at home watching cartoons with his father as a very special thing.^[3]

Career

While in animation class, his instructor moved him to Los Angeles after graduation for work at Disney to work on films like The Little Mermaid as his first animation job. Afterwards, he left to work on shows like The Simpsons from FOX.^[4] Then going to Nickelodeon while switching from storyboard work on Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters to directing on Hey Arnold!. While after that, he moved on to Spongebob Squarepants by his own choice and Hey Arnold! being close to ending. He went from being a storyboard artist on The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, to writing episodes of the show as a writer and storyboard director, and then to being a supervising storyboard director. Afterwards, he went to direct on The Fairly OddParents during its ninth season.^[5] He is currently working at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1987	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night	Breakdown Artist
1988	BraveStarr: The Movie	Assistant Animator
1989	Back To Neverland	Assistant Animator (uncredited)
1989	The Little Mermaid	Breakdown and Inbetween Artist
1990	Flower Planet	Concept Developer & Animator
1996	"Arnold"	Layout Artist, Storyboard Artist, & Supervising Director
1997	Tales of Worm Paranoia	Layout Artist
1998	Planet Kate	Storyboard Artist
1999	Curbside	Storyboard Artist
2002	Hey Arnold!: The Movie	Director^[6]
2004	Party Wagon	Character Designer, Prop Designer, Sheet Timer, Storyboard Artist, & Director
2004	Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas	Storyboard Artist
2004	The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour	Creative Consultant
2004	The Spongebob Squarepants Movie	Storyboard Artist
2005	Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Assistant Director
2006	The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide!	Creative Consultant

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1988-1989	A.L.F.	Storyboard Clean-Up
1990-1993; 1995	The Simpsons	Storyboard Artist (Dancin' Homer) Layout Artist Character Layout Artist (1990) Animation Timer (Principal Charming) Background Layout Artist ( A Star Is Burns)
1991; 1994-1995	Rugrats	Character Layout Artist (1991) Storyboard Artist (1994-1995) Assistant Director (1994)
1992-1993	The Ren and Stimpy Show	Layout Artist
1993	2 Stupid Dogs	Storyboard Artist
1994-1995	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
1994-1996	Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man
1996-2004	Hey Arnold!	Creative Director Supervising Director (1999-2004) Storyboard Director (1996-1999) Storyboard Supervisor Director (1996-1998; 2001)
2002-2006	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	Creative Consultant
2005	Camp Lazlo	Writer & Storyboard Artist
2005-2006	Family Guy	Storyboard Artist (PTV) Assistant Director (1996)
2005-2006	Drawn Together	Director
2006-2014	Spongebob Squarepants	Writer & Storyboard Director (2006-2007) Songwriter (2008) Supervising Storyboard Director (2007-2014)
2006-2007	Squirrel Boy	Storyboard Artist
2008	The Mighty B	Storyboard Revisionist
2013-2014	The Fairly OddParents	Director
2014	Clarence	Sheet Timer, Storyboard Supervisor, & Storyboard Revision Supervisor
2015	All Hail King Julien	Storyboard Artist

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