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Claudia Katz is the producer
who works with Rough Draft Studios making sure that the animation
is done correctly. Before Futurama, Rough Draft's only full-length
show was Mtv's 'The Maxx' on which Claudia was the Director. Rough
Draft Studios is now also responsible for animating the Simpsons.
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Growing
up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not take a particular
interest in school, which is what originaly turned him towards drawing.
In the mid-1980' s, Matt Groening moved to Los Angeles and started
drawing a comic strip named "Life in Hell" which eventually became
published in the newspaper where he worked. In 1988, James Brooks,
looking for a filler in the television show "The Tracy Ullman show",
turned towards a framed "Life in Hell" strip on his wall and contacted
Groening. The animated shorts that Groening created were "The Simpsons".
Graduate
of U.C. Berkeley, studying theoretical computer science. Real name
is David 'S.' Cohen. He used that name when he worked on the Simpsons,
but when he starting working on Futurama he joined Writer's Guild
(the TV writer's union). When he registered, there was already a
David S. Cohen and the union didn't let there be two members
with that name. He chose the letter X for his middle inital
'cause he felt it was more 'sci-fi-ish.'
Patric
M. Verrone won an Emmy for Muppets Tonight! (1997) and was also
Emmy- nominated for Futurama (1999) and The Tonight Show With Johnny
Carson. Verrone wrote and co-produced The Critic (1993--95), was
a staff writer on The Tonight Show (1987--90) and is currently supervising
producer of the hybrid computer-traditional animated series Futurama.
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