The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the six winners of juried awards for outstanding individual achievement in animation. These prizes will be presented at the Creative Arts Awards ceremony Sept. 12. Let’s hear it for these amazingly gifted animation artists:
Shigemi Ikeda, art director, Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Spike TV
Joe Binggeli, background painter, Chowder, episode “Shnitzel & the Lead Farfel,” Cartoon Network
Chris Roszak, background painter, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, episode “Sea Legs,” Cartoon Network
Andy Suriano, character designer, Underfist: Halloween Bash TV special, Cartoon Network
Elizabeth Harvatine, character animator, Moral Orel, episode “Sacrifice,” Cartoon Network
Joshua A. Jennings, character animator, Robot Chicken, episode “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II,” Cartoon Network
