Aaron Augenblick

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Aaron Augenblick is a cartoon animator from the United States of America.

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Augenblick grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and studied at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. Whilst at college, Augenblick created two animated short films entitled "The Midnight Carnival" (screened at Slamdance Festival 2000) and "The Wire". These films received two ASIFA Awards and the SVA Dusty Award for outstanding achievement in Animation. In 1996, "The Wire" was screened on the Cartoon Network as part of A Night of Independent Cartoons.

He began his professional career working at MTV Animation on such television shows as Daria, Cartoon Sushi and Downtown. In 1999, Aaron Augenblick founded Augenblick Studios, an animation production facility located in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to animation, Augenblick has written and illustrated the Xeric Award-winning "Tales of the Great Unspoken".

Augenblick Studios created the animated content for two seasons of Wonder Showzen, a cult favorite for MTV. Augenblick Studios garnered widespread notoriety for their spot-on parodies of classic cartoons, leading to Aaron being named as one of the rising stars of animation in 2005 by Animation Magazine.

In 2006, Aaron Augenblick wrote and directed Golden Age, a faux-documentary which examined the scandalous private lives of iconic cartoon characters from the past. The ten episodes series was originally created for Comedy Central’s broadband channel Motherload and was later released as a 22 minute short film. Golden Age was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and played in numerous festivals throughout the world.

Augenblick Studios is currently working on Superjail, a new animated series for Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network.

[edit] External links

• Augenblick Studios official web site
• Augenblick Studios article on AWN
• Aaron Augenblick interview on The Reeler

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