Bruce Walter Timm was born on February 5,1961 and is an American artist, animator, writer, producer, and director.
32 Facts About Bruce Timm
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Bruce Timm is best known for contributed to building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, most notably as the head producer behind Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited.
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Outside of animation, Bruce Timm has drawn and written several comic books.
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Bruce Timm was born on February 5,1961, in Oklahoma, the third of four brothers.
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Bruce Timm's father was an engineer and his mother worked for the phone company.
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Bruce Timm began drawing from a young age and developed a serious interest in comics around age 12 or 13.
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Bruce Timm went to college for only one year before dropping out due to bad grades.
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Bruce Timm applied in mid-1980, but wasn't offered the job and went back to working for Kmart.
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Bruce Timm passed the layout test on his second try and from that point on began working in animation.
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Bruce Timm worked for numerous other employers, including Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth Productions, and attempted to find work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics, but was unsuccessful.
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In 1987, he was hired by John Kricfalusi to do layouts for Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which Bruce Timm called "artistically and creatively the most fulfilling job that I'd had in the animation business" up to that point.
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Bruce Timm worked at DIC Entertainment on The Real Ghostbusters for one season in 1988, then joined Warner Bros.
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Bruce Timm was one of the creators and producers of the animated series based on various DC Comics superheroes, known as the DC Animated Universe.
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Bruce Timm served as producer on the feature-length Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker before taking the helm as creator and producer of the animated version of Justice League, which debuted in November 2001; the series continued in the form of Justice League Unlimited in July 2004.
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Bruce Timm was the producer and creator of Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
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Bruce Timm created virtually all the original character designs for Batman: The Animated Series himself, with the exceptions of Mr Freeze and the Riddler, who were designed by Mike Mignola, and the characters Man-Bat and the Mad Hatter, who were designed by Kevin Nowlan.
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Bruce Timm shared character designer duties on Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League with James Tucker.
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In 2013, following the release of The Dark Knight Returns animated feature, Bruce Timm stepped down as DC animation supervising producer; James Tucker was named as his replacement.
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Bruce Timm was a writer and executive producer for Batman and Harley Quinn.
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Bruce Timm worked with Man of Steel director Zack Snyder in creating a 75th anniversary short of Superman in 2013.
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Bruce Timm has played several characters in the animated series he has been involved in.
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Bruce Timm subsequently appeared in an animated form in the 2009 episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, "Legends of the Dark Mite", in a comic book convention parody scene, in which he wore Joker's costume, alongside Paul Dini in Harley Quinn's costume.
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Bruce Timm played a guard in the 2000 direct-to-video animated film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
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Bruce Timm made a cameo appearance in the 2009 film Green Lantern: First Flight as Bug Boy.
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Bruce Timm played The Riddler in the 2010 film Batman: Under the Red Hood and appeared as Galius Zed in the 2011 film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights.
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Bruce Timm won the same Eisner prize the next year as well, for Batman Adventures Holiday Special, with Dini, Ronnie del Carmen, and others.
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Later, Bruce Timm was involved with Batman Adventures and has worked on Avengers and Vampirella.
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Bruce Timm co-created Harley Quinn, working from Dini's original design.
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Bruce Timm provided the art work for a short two-page Harley Quinn origin story for Dini's Countdown in 2008.
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Bruce Timm was featured in "Conan Gets Animated", a skit in the December 9,2010, episode of the TBS late night talk show Conan, in which host Conan O'Brien enlisted his help in designing a new superhero, based on O'Brien's specifications.
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In 2012, Timm released a book of erotic art, "Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm," showcasing more than 300 pencil, line, and full color erotic drawings of women.
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Bruce Timm is self-taught, having never received any formal art schooling.