Jim Ballantine | |
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Born |
Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii |
August 30, 1955
Occupation | Film producer |
Jim Ballantine (born August 30, 1955 in Waimea, Kauai, Hawaii) is an American film producer who is credited on multiple animated features and TV series, and whose first animation job was on Disney's The Little Mermaid.
Ballantine's credits at Nickelodeon and DisneyToon Studios include The Ren and Stimpy Show (1991–95), Disney Toon Studios' Bambi II (2006), Brother Bear 2 (also 2006), and the Rayman series. Ballantine contributed two years to The Wild Bunch, an animated feature made at Animation Lab studio in Jerusalem, Israel.
He was nominated for an Emmy award in both 1992 and 1993 for his work on The Ren and Stimpy Show. He was head of production at Acme Filmworks in 2005–06. He is now head of Flying Bark Productions in Sydney.