Robert Alvarez

Robert Alvarez
Born	Robert James Alvarez (1948-01-22) January 22, 1948 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	California Institute of the Arts
Occupation(s)	Animator, storyboard artist, animation director, director, writer
Years active	1968–present
Awards	6 Primetime Emmy Awards

Robert James Alvarez (born January 22, 1948) is an American animator, storyboard artist, television director, and writer. Alvarez studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, which later became the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1971. He began his career as an assistant animator for the 1968 film Yellow Submarine.

Throughout his five decades in the animation industry, Alvarez has developed an extensive resume. He has worked on hundreds of productions, mainly for television. He is best known for his work on multiple shows at Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios, and has also worked at other animation studios, such as Disney Television Animation, Nickelodeon, Frederator Studios, and Warner Bros. Animation. His studio credits include, in chronological order, Scooby-Doo, The Smurfs, The Jetsons, G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, DuckTales, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Animaniacs, Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Ben 10, Regular Show, and Adventure Time. He has been awarded six Primetime Emmy Awards and a total of 25 Emmy nominations for his achievements.

Career

Alvarez began his career as an assistant animator for the 1968 film Yellow Submarine starring The Beatles. Since then, he has worked on many animated television series, including Super Friends, The Smurfs, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, Dexter's Laboratory, I Am Weasel, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Regular Show. He also created and wrote two animated pilots, Pizza Boy in "No Tip" and Tumbleweed Tex in "School Daze", for Hanna-Barbera's cartoon shorts showcase What a Cartoon! in 1996.

Accolades

Alvarez has received 6 Primetime Emmy Awards, 9 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and 1 Daytime Emmy Award nomination. His first nomination came in 1994 in the category Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) for directing The Town Santa Forgot. In 2000 and 2001, he received two more nominations for his work on The Powerpuff Girls, also receiving one in 2004 for The Powerpuff Girls special "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas". Alvarez won two Primetime Emmys for his work on the Genndy Tartakovsky series Star Wars: Clone Wars and a third for Samurai Jack. In 2006, he garnered one nomination for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and another for the My Life as a Teenage Robot special Escape from Cluster Prime. One more Foster's nomination followed in 2007 for the episode "Good Wilt Hunting" before he would win a Primetime Emmy for the show, which was for the special Destination: Imagination in 2009. In 2010, he was nominated for the animated short Uncle Grandpa in the category Outstanding Short-format Animated Program. Alvarez received a Primetime Emmy award for Regular Show in 2012, which he also was nominated for in 2011. His Daytime Emmy nomination was in 2007 for The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy in the category Outstanding Broadband Program — Children's.

Personal life

Alvarez attended Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, from 1962 to 1966. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in animation from the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), which he completed in 1971.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Notes
1969	Winky Dink and You	background artist
1978	Challenge of the Superfriends	animator
	Galaxy Goof-Ups
	Yogi's Space Race
1979	Casper and the Angels
	The New Shmoo
	The Super Globetrotters	animator/layout artist
	Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo	animator
1980	The Flintstone Comedy Show
	The World's Greatest SuperFriends
1980–1981	The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
1981	Super Friends
	Trollkins
1981–1988	The Smurfs	animator/animation director
1982	Pac-Man	animator
1983	The Christmas Tree Train	lead animator
	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe	animator
	The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
	The Smurfs Christmas Special
1984	Pole Position	sheet timer
	Snorks	animation director
1985	Galtar and the Golden Lance
	The Jetsons	animator
	Kidd Video	sheet timer
	Pound Puppies	animation director
	Rainbow Brite	sheet timer
	Robotman & Friends
	The Turkey Caper	animator
	Yogi's Treasure Hunt	animation director
	The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo	animator
1985–1986	Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling	sheet timer
	Paw Paws	animator
1986	Ghostbusters
	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero	sequence director
1986–1987	She-Ra: Princess of Power	animator
1986–1989	The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible
1987	The Little Clowns of Happytown	sequence director
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
	Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light	sheet timer
1987–1988	BraveStarr	animator
1988	The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley	animation director
	Denver, the Last Dinosaur	sheet timer
	Dino-Riders	animation director
	The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
	Gumby Adventures
	The New Yogi Bear Show
	A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
1989	Camp Candy	animation timer/storyboard timer
	Dixie's Diner	animation director
	The Further Adventures of SuperTed
	Vytor: The Starfire Champion	sheet timer
1989–1990	DuckTales	timing director
	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1990	Adventures of the Gummi Bears	animation director
	Gravedale High
	Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone
	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
	Tom & Jerry Kids
1990–1991	The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda
	Timeless Tales from Hallmark
1991	The Pirates of Dark Water
1992	The Addams Family
1992–1995	Capitol Critters
1993	The Addams Family
	Droopy, Master Detective
	2 Stupid Dogs
1993–1994	Captain Planet and the Planeteers
	SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
1995	Dumb and Dumber
1995–1997	What a Cartoon!
1995–1996	The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
1996	Animaniacs	sheet timer/slugging
	Pinky and the Brain	sheet timer
1996–2003	Dexter's Laboratory	animation director
1996–1997	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	animation timer
1996–2000	The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries	timing director
1997–2004	Johnny Bravo	animation director
1998–1999	Cow and Chicken
	Histeria!	sheet timing
	I Am Weasel	animation director
1998–2004	The Powerpuff Girls
2000–2001	Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
2001–2017	Samurai Jack	animation director/sheet timer
2001	Ferret and Parrot	sheet timer
	IMP, Inc.
2002–2006	My Life as a Teenage Robot
2002	Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
2002–2003	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	director
2002–2007	Codename: Kids Next Door	timing director
2001–2003	Evil Con Carne	animation director
2003–2005	Alex Adventure	sheet timer
	Star Wars: Clone Wars	sheet timer
2004–2009	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	animation director
2005	Robotboy	sheet timer
2006	Korgoth of Barbaria
	Ben 10
	Legion of Super Heroes
2006–2008	My Gym Partner's a Monkey
2007	The Grim Adventures of the KND
	Random! Cartoons
2008	Underfist: Halloween Bash
	The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!!
2008–2009	Chowder	animation director/sheet timer
2008–2010	The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack	sheet timer
2009	Ben 10: Alien Force
2010–2011	The Mighty B!
2010–2013	Generator Rex	supervising animation director
2009–2017	Regular Show	animation director
2010–2011	Sym-Bionic Titan	animation director/sheet timer
2011–2012	Secret Mountain Fort Awesome	animation director
2012–2014	Ben 10: Omniverse	sheet timer
2013–2017	Uncle Grandpa	animation director
2013	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	timing director (pilot only)
	Paranormal Roommates	timing director
2013–2014	Over the Garden Wall
2014	AJ's Infinite Summer
	Back to Backspace
	Clarence
	The Team Unicorn Saturday Action Fun Hour!
2014–2015	Mixels
2015–2019	We Bare Bears	animation director
2015	Long Live the Royals	timing director
	Ridin' with Burgess
	Twelve Forever	timing director (pilot only)
2016–2018	The Powerpuff Girls	animation director
2016	Bottom's Butte
	Victor and Valentino	animation director (pilot only)
2017	Craig of the Creek
	Summer Camp Island
	Tiggle Winks	animation director
2018	Adventure Time	sheet timer
2019	Infinity Train	supervising animation director

Film

Year	Title	Notes
1968	Yellow Submarine	assistant animator
1985	Creature	animator
1987	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night	animator
1989	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland	sheet timer
1990	Jetsons: The Movie	animator
	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp	slugging and timing director
1993	I Yabba-Dabba Do!	animation director
	The Halloween Tree	animation director
	The Town Santa Forgot	director/animation director
1994	Yogi the Easter Bear	director/animation director
1995	Gumby: The Movie	sheet timer
1998	Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island	animation director
2000	Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders	animation timing director
	Tweety's High-Flying Adventure	timing director
2001	Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase	animation timing director
	The Flintstones: On the Rocks	animation director
2002	The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina	animation director (uncredited)
	The Powerpuff Girls Movie	additional animation direction
	Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring	animation timing director
2009	Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword	animation timer
	Green Lantern: First Flight	animation timer
2015	Regular Show: The Movie	animation director

External links

• Robert Alvarez at IMDb