Mike Milo

This article is about the animator. For the fictional character, see Mike Milo (Cry Macho).

Mike Milo
Born (1965-07-22) July 22, 1965 (age 59)
Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Animator, cartoon director, storyboard artist, writer, producer
Years active1990–present

Mike Milo (born July 22, 1965) is an American animator, director, storyboard artist, writer, and producer in the television industry. He is currently directing the new series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? at Warner Bros. Animation. He was an animation director on Uncle Grandpa as well as Craig of the Creek, both for Cartoon Network. He was also a story artist on Curious George for Universal. In 2012, he worked as a storyboard artist for The Fairly OddParents, and developed a pilot with Butch Hartman. Before that, he directed the animated series Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja at Titmouse, Inc. for Disney XD. He is also known to have designed the characters for the Comedy Central series Brickleberry, although he is uncredited.[citation needed] Before that, he was a story artist on the show Phineas and Ferb for Disney Channel and co-wrote nine episodes for that series. Growing up in Old Tappan, New Jersey,[1] he began his animation career in 1990 animating commercials for Broadcast Arts (later known as Curious Pictures) in New York City. Subsequently, he worked for Sierra On-Line and Warner Bros., again as an animator working on Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Tazmania, Pinky and the Brain and Histeria!. He has also worked for Disney Television Animation, Frederator Studios, Film Roman, Hanna-Barbera, Universal Animation Studios, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network Studios, DIC Entertainment, Saban, Mike Young Productions, and other smaller studios.

His first directing job was at Film Roman, where he was the assistant director on Gracie Films' The Critic. He created and directed two shorts titled Bloo's Gang and The Ignoramooses for Cartoon Network's showcase series What a Cartoon!, and went on to direct numerous TV shows (some of which he had worked on earlier in his career) such as Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Xiaolin Showdown. He also did the first US pilot starring an east Indian boy called Swaroop[2] for a WB/Cartoon Network co-production that ultimately ended up being in the "Big Pick" contest on The Cartoon Cartoon Show. From there, he went on to head up the animation department at 3DBob Productions on The Godman, a Christian feature distributed by Book of Hope International.[3] He was creative producer and director on the WB show Generation O. He created and directed a cartoon for Nickelodeon[4] and Frederator Studios[5] called Flavio, which would be seen as part of the animated showcase series Random! Cartoons, in 2008. In 2007, he served as Director of Animation for Gigapix Studios[6] headed by David Pritchard, and has directed episodes of the animated series Chowder for Cartoon Network.

Milo graduated in 1983 from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan.[7]

Milo directed and animated three shorts called True Stories for Smosh, which to date have garnered over 30 million hits on YouTube. Most recently, he and his wife Laura Milo launched the website Animation Insider, which interviews animation artists around the world.

  1. ^ Watson, John. "Cartoon hopes for good karma" Archived June 10, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, The Record, July 27, 2001. Accessed June 10, 2020. "But cartoonist Mike Milo hopes that will change just a bit with the Cartoon Network's premiere of his new animated short, Swaroop.... The look of the Shukla family is based on photos of Rao's family, and Milo, who grew up in Old Tappan and now lives in Los Angeles, used memories of his old New Jersey neighborhood to draw Swaroop's new suburban home."
  2. ^ "Youtube". YouTube. Archived from the original on March 20, 2007. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  3. ^ Bookofhope.net Archived April 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Nickelodeon Games, Episodes, Shows & Characters - Nick.com". www.nick.com. Archived from the original on February 19, 2007. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  5. ^ "Frederator". frederator.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2006. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  6. ^ "GigapixStudios.com". Archived from the original on June 2, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  7. ^ Ivry, Bob. "'Toon boom shapes their lives" Archived June 10, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, The Record. October 14, 1996. Accessed June 10, 2020. "Milo, a 1983 graduate of Northern Valley High School at Old Tappan, has more experience than Moncrief, but the same aim."