Thank you to CARTOON
NETWORK for giving a home to this bizarre project.
Camp Lazlo emerged from a children’s book idea that outgrew it’s
medium. Suddenly all of these lunatic characters wanted to live,
and there wasn’t enough room in a simple story to house them. The
more I thought about it, the more I felt a simple animated series
with kids away from high tech stimulus and in nature would be something
I’d like to do. Now 61 episodes and an Emmy later, I felt like I
hit a chord and had a good time doing it. I was as shocked as anyone
that I got back into television but I’m glad I did. I’m proud of
Camp Lazlo.
Many thanks to my amazing crew that helped me bring these characters
to life. Especially my Creative Producer Mark
O'Hare, who I couldn't
have done the show without. Also my animation supervisor Brian Sheesley,
my fantastic Art Director Sue Mondt,My story editor Merriwhether
Williams ( thank you Merri.I learned so much from you) and
the rest of my staff, including but not limited to, Steve
Little, Kaz, Cosmo,
John Infantino, Mike Roth, J.G., Clay
Morrow, Ant, Kent
Osborne,
Russell C., Lindsey Pollard, Swinton
Scott, Phil Cummings, C
Raggio, Tamika, Erik
Elizarez, Jeff Perlmutter,
Janet Dimon, the Matt Magic of my editor Matt
Adams, my composer
Andy Paley, my music editor Nick
Carr,, my sound effects Genius Jeff
Hutchins,( who also did Rocko, and still has the Rocko shoe squeak
in his library) My mixer Eric Freeman, my production staff Meagen,
Julie, Jessica, Laura, my voice director Collette
Sunderman and recording
engineer Robert Serda,,Dialog editor Tony
Ostyn. And, of course,
the multi-talented voice cast of Carlos Alazraqui, Tom
Kenny, Jeff
Bennett, Doug Lawrence, Steve
Little, Jill Talley and Jodi
Benson.
And thank you to all of you who watched. It’s nice to know there
are others as warped as I am. |