Joel Trussell

Joel Trussell
Born (1972-06-19) June 19, 1972 (age 52)
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States
Occupation(s)writer, director, executive producer, animator, voice actor

Joel Trussell is a director, executive producer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. He most recently was an executive producer for the adult, animated, dark comedy Captain Fall for Netflix Animation. Before that he was an executive producer at Disney Television Animation for the Disney XD show Pickle and Peanut which he helped develop alongside the creator Noah Z. Jones.

Before Disney, Trussell directed the 20 episode, award-winning,[1] animated series Electric City which is created, written by and starring Tom Hanks.[2][3][4][5]

Trussell is additionally well known for directing several award-winning music videos,[6][7][8][9] and many animated segments for Yo Gabba Gabba! on Nickelodeon.[10] In 2008 he was selected by Mike Judge to direct the intro for The Animation Show.[11]

Pictoplasma has published his work in their Character Encyclopedia, and two collections of their Characters in Motion (2&3).[12] He was selected as a speaker at their 2011 event in New York City and the 2012 event in Berlin.[13]

  1. ^ Hill, Naja. "Streamy Awards 2013: Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter.
  2. ^ "Electric City - Yahoo! Screen". Electriccity.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  3. ^ "Six Point Harness designs webisodes for Tom Hanks/Playtone". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on April 18, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  4. ^ Wallenstein, Andrew (January 8, 2012). "Hanks, Yahoo team for 'Electric City' - Entertainment News, Consumer Electronics Show, Media". Variety. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  5. ^ "Yahoo and Tom Hanks to announce Net video project at CES". Content.usatoday.com. January 8, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  6. ^ "Staff Lists: 100 Awesome Music Videos | Features". Pitchfork. June 20, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  7. ^ Harvilla, Rob (September 1, 2009). "In Praise Of Jason Forrest's "War Photographer" Video, Unjustly Excluded from Pitchfork's "Top 50 Videos of the 2000s" Feature - New York Music - Sound of the City". Blogs.villagevoice.com. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  8. ^ "Ottawa International Animation Festival - History". 96.125.168.25. Archived from the original on November 29, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  9. ^ "Ottawa International Animation Festival |".
  10. ^ "Yo Gabba Gabba!". Printmag.com. June 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  11. ^ "The Animation Show 4 | USA". Denverfilm.org. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  12. ^ "Characters in Motion, Vol. 3 | Pictoplasma Publishing". Publishing.pictoplasma.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
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