Eric Radomski
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| Birth name | Eric Radomski |
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| Occupation | Animated series producer Director |
| Years active | 80s, 90s, 00s |
Eric Radomski is a three times Emmy Award winner television producer, dierctor and artist, best known for his works with Warner Bros. Animation. He has worked in animation for over two deacades.
Radomski began his professional career as an animator in the early 1980s as an apprentice animator at a small commercial studio in Cleveland, Ohio, his hometown. Two years later, he moved west to join Rick Reinert Pictures to work as an assistant director on various projects.
Towards the early 1990s, when warner Bros. decided to revive its animation divition to reach younger television audiences, Radomky joined to work on Steven Spielberg's Tiny Toon Adventures, where he worked as background designer along with character designer Bruce Timm, and writers Alan Burnett and Paul Dini. When the success of Tim Burton's first Batman film prompted the studio and Fox Network to create an animated series about Batman. Radomski and Timm applied to work on the new series separately, but were assigned to work together on a short, low-budget showcase animation sequence featuring Batman, some thieves, Police Commissioner James Gordon and the police, which resulted in them being made producers and put in charge of the series.
Besides producint, also directed three episodes and lead the background design. One of his mayor contributions to Batman: The Animated Series and the animation field in general was the innovative use of black paper painted with lighter colors for all the background art, which was a new concept for the industry. The result, along with Bruce Timm's style. helped define the general atmosphere and mood of the series. Due to the succes of his work, he also got to produce and direct Batman: Mask of the Panatasm, the first animated movie tied to the series and the DC animates universe continuity. After the series finished at Fox Network, Radomski also directed Steven Spielberg's Freakazoid!, for which he received his second Emmy award.
In 1996, looking to experiment outside the boundaries of the daytime animation censorship, he took a job at the trend-setting HBO to produce and direct two late night series: Todd McFarlane's Spawn and Spicy City with the Godfather of adult animation, Ralph Bakshi. Spawn, based on another popular comic book character, earn Radomsky a third Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Animation.
Some time before finishing at HBO, in 1998, Radomski joined Film Roman to head up their animation development efforts as Executive Creative Director. During his four years, he founded level13.net, the company's Internet entertainment site, which alouded him to get talent from around the world to produce animation works outside the standard Hollywood model. The projects Radomski developed for the company include the Tripping the Rift 3d animated series and Doug Lawrence's Hairballs short film , which continues to garner major animation and comedy awards. The Works, an animated public service announcement for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) directed and animated by Radomski in 2001, was awarded two Crystal Communicator Awards. He also supervised all of the animation sequences on Jodie Foster's acclaimed The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys 2002 film. Radomski spent his last year at Film Roman creating and directing Joge, a short film that gained certain attention of film festivals throughout the world.
In 2002 he co-founded as partner Phuuz, an intellectual property company, developing entertainment content for traditional and new media formats directed at a worldwide audience.
In 2003, Radomski returned to Warner Bros. Animation as a consultant, where he still oversees the production of several series up to this day. Most prominently among his works of this last periode, Radomski is co-produced Xiaolin Showdown, the Emmy Award-winning action comedy series for Kids' WB!.
Currently, he is still producing Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, a show based on the Hanna-Barbera characters that premiered in late 2006 in Kids' WB!.
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- www.phuuz.com, his curriculum entry at the entertainment company he co-founded. Most of the information on this article comes from there.
