Robert Paul Jaques was born on November 2,1956 and is a Canadian-American animator and animation director.
12 Facts About Bob Jaques
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Bob Jaques is best known for the television series The Ren and Stimpy Show, Ren and Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", and SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Bob Jaques was nominated for two Emmys in 1992 and 1993 for his contributions to The Ren and Stimpy Show.
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Bob Jaques did some stop motion animations since he was a fan of Ray Harryhausen films.
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Bob Jaques didn't "draw religiously" like other children his age but he was basically self taught.
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Bob Jaques got curious in traditional animation when he was older and applied for a animation course in Sheridan College which didn't work the first time but when he drew with more effort it worked the second time.
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At Sheridan, he met with John Kricfalusi and Bob Jaques showed 16mm prints during lunch hours of shorts from the Golden age of American animation, which a crowd of people would come in and John would be one of the regulars.
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Bob Jaques headed to Los Angeles in 1981, and his first job there was working for the show Laverne and Shirley in the Army.
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Bob Jaques's first work with Kricfalusi was a animation director for the Harlem Shuffle music video, which was animated at Bagdasarian Productions and was part of a pitch piece presented by Ralph Bakshi and drawn by Kricfalusi.
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In 1989, Kricfalusi called Bob Jaques and told him he sold the pilot to Ren and Stimpy, and the characters were from his Your Gang concept, and Kricfalusi asked him to work on the pilot, to which he said yes.
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Bob Jaques went on to work for the show in general.
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Bob Jaques is currently the host of the Cartoon Logic podcast with Thad Komorowski.