Jim Kammerud

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Jim Kammerud born 1960 is an American director writer producer and animator best known for his work with the Walt Disney Company Kammerud attended the Ohio State University in the mid1980s There he developed his cartooning style by working as an editorial cartoonist as well as creating the comic strip Its Working for The Lantern the Universitys student newspaper Also on staff at The Lantern at the time was Jeff Smith later known for the comic book Bone After college while still living in Columbus Ohio Kammerud and Smith formed the Character Builders animation studio There Kammerud began working on Rover Dangerfield and worked as an animator and storyboard artist for Bebes Kids as well as Space Jam He became involved with Disney as sequence director for the additional animation in Pocahontas II Journey to a New World and later joined to direct and design the new characters in The Little Mermaid II Return to the Sea His next film as director was 101 Dalmatians II Patchs London Adventure when he also worked on part of the screenplay His second film where he worked on the screenplay was Tarzan II in addition to producing the film and his most recent project The Fox and the Hound 2 is his first film without codirection from Brian Smith He also worked on The Aristocats II which has since been shelved after the decision to drastically reduce the number of directtovideo sequels made by Disney In 2009 Kammerud was featured in The Cartoonist a documentary film on the life and work of Jeff Smith creator of Bone Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Kammerud licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia