Zac Moncrief
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Zac Moncrief left his small hometown of Montvale, New Jersey, in 1989 to go to California Institute of the Arts, a Disney funded college specializing in animation. He then gained an internship on an animated feature, The Pagemaster, and moved on as an Assistant Animator on the film Cats Don't Dance. While there, he sold a pilot to then President of Hanna-Barbera, Fred Seibert, for the What a Cartoon series titled "Godfrey and Zeek ". This transitioned into doing story work for Hanna-Barbera's other series, Johnny Bravo.
Zac went on to open his own company, creating animation on several CD Roms, as well as a commercial work featuring Warner Bros. "The Roadrunner", The Carl's Jr. spot featuring Dennis Rodman as well as Animation for A GM sponsored ride at Disney World. Soon after, Mr. Seibert came calling again with a new series on Nickelodeon called Oh Yeah! Cartoons. There, Zac created the shorts Kitty the HaplessCat, Baxter and Bananas[1], and also worked on other shorts such as The Fairly Oddparents and the Emmy winning short "Max and His Special Problem".
Shortly thereafter, he was asked to teach at his Alma Mater (CalArts) and by Disney Television Animation to Storyboard on Teacher's Pet the series (and it's Theatrical release) as well as the hit series/"Direct to Videos" for Lilo and Stitch, Kim Possible and the network's latest hit Brandy and Mr. Whiskers. He left Disney to become an Direct) for the GIANT SMASH Family Guy for Fox Animation. Although he no longer teaches at Calarts, his knowledge of Story and Storyboarding is being shared with those around him as he is BACK at Disney Directing on their GIANT SMASH HIT "Phineas and Ferb."
Below is a longgggggg detailed list of his credits:
- Turner Feature Animation The Pagemaster- Coordinator- Animation Intern
- Turner Feature Animation Cat's Don't Dance - Assistant Animator
- Hanna Barbera What A Cartoon: Godfrey and Zeek also misspelled "Zeke"- Created, Directed, Storyboarded
- Hanna Barbera Johnny Bravo: the Series" Development/Storyboarded
- Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons including these episodes:
- Kitty the Hapless Cat (Created, Directed, Designed, Wrote, etc.)
- Baxter and Bananas ( Created, directed, Designed, Wrote, Etc)
- The Fairly OddParents (Storyboarded 2 Episodes)
- Mina and the Count; Playing a Hunch" (Storyboard/Wrote from outline)
- Max and His Special Problem (Animation)
- Max and the Pigeon Incident (Storyboard clean-up as well as Assisted with Character Model; Turn arounds, mouth charts, etc.)
- Tales from the Goose Lady (Storyboard clean-up as well as Assisted with Character Model; Turn arounds, mouth charts, etc.)
- Nickelodeon Hey Arnold- Storyboarded 1 part of 1 Episode
- Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer Storyboarded
- Disney Television Animation Teacher's Pet Storyboarded
- Disney Television Animation Kim Possible: Season 1 Storyboard Revisionist
- Nickelodeon Fairly Oddparents: Season 1,2" Storyboard Revisionist
- Disney Television Animation Lilo and Stitch; the video Storyboard and Revisions
- Disney Television Animation Lilo and Stitch: the Series Storyboard and Revisions
- Nickelodeon My Life as a Teenage Robot Revisions and Mouth Charts
- Disney Television Animation Kim Possible: Season 2 Storyboard
- Disney Television Animation Lilo and Stitch 2 Storyboard Revisions
- Disney Television Animation "Brandy and Mr. Whiskers" Storyboard
- Fox Television Animation Family Guy Director and Assistant Director
Currently:
- Disney Television Animation Phineas and Ferb
