Craig Bartlett
| Craig Bartlett | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Craig Michael Bartlett October 18, 1956 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Education | The Evergreen State College |
| Occupation | Animator, voice actor |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Known for |
Hey Arnold! (1996–2004) Dinosaur Train (with The Jim Henson Company; 2009–present ) |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Groening |
| Children | Matt Bartlett Katie Bartlett |
Craig Michael Bartlett (born October 18, 1956) is an American animator, best known for writing for creating the television series Hey Arnold! and Dinosaur Train.
His first job, after graduating from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was at Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon, where he learned the art of stop-motion animation, working on movies such as The Adventures of Mark Twain. Bartlett moved to Los Angeles in 1987 to animate the "Penny" cartoons, with assistance from Nick Park for Pee-wee's Playhouse on CBS. He later made an animated ID for NBC with Klasky Csupo. He later worked at BRC Imagination Arts directing projects such as Postcards and Mystery Lodge for Knott's Berry Farm.
Bartlett met the Nickelodeon execs while story editing Rugrats in its first seasons. He pitched Hey Arnold! to them in fall of 1993, produced a pilot in spring of 1994, and the series was greenlit in January 1995. Hey Arnold! was in production continuously from 1995 to 2001, made by Bartlett's own production company, Snee-Oosh, Inc, which he founded in 1986. The series culminated in a TV movie originally titled "Arnold Saves the Neighborhood", but Nickelodeon decided to release it theatrically as Hey Arnold!: The Movie, in June 2002.
A dispute over a second planned Arnold movie then resulted in Bartlett leaving Nickelodeon to write and produce a TV movie for Cartoon Network called Party Wagon (also produced by Snee-Oosh), a story originally intended as a pilot for an ongoing series. It ended up being the first Cartoon Network movie-length pilot to be broadcast, but not picked up until Underfist: Halloween Bash, which was created by Maxwell Atoms, who created The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne.
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