Gene Hamm's Page

Tell us your story:

I am an independent animator who has worked in and out of Hollywood for thirty years. I worked on Bakshi's Lord of the Rings, Hanna-Barbera's Smurfs,and Supefreiends, Art Clokey's Gumby, Sega's Dick Tracy game, Living Books and music videos such as Howard Jones' I'd Like To Get To Know You Well, Michael Bolton's Everybody's Crazy and the music video of Big Trouble in Little China. My own films include the feature The Dream Hat, the shorts The Conceited Little Christmas Tree on the Mini Movie Channel, Cook For Your Life, and Spectacular Fire. On my own films I write, animate, voice the characters and compose the music.,

Hometown:

Seaside, Oregon

Personal Website:

http://www.hammination.com

Portfolio Site:

http://www.hammination.com

About Me:

I pretty well covered it up above.

Favorite Cartoons:

Features: Hoppity Goes to Town, Yellow Submarine, The Point, The Phantom Tollbooth, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service
Shorts: Any Warner Brothers cartoon, Fleischers, Tex Avery, Bullwinkle, Jonny Quest

Favorite Films:

Features: Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, anything by Hitchcock, or Blake Edwards, James Bond movies, The Marx Brothers, Monty Python

Favorite TV Shows:

The Fugitive, The Invaders, Maverick, Get Smart, Cheyenne, Hawaiian Eye, Burke's Law, The Sopranos, Murder She Wrote, The Rockford Files, Sgt. Bilko, Have Gun Will Travel

Favorite Comics:

Anything drawn by Dan Spiegle. I learned to draw from copying his comics.

Favorite Books:

The Dictionary of Slang and Euphemism, Character Animation Crash Course, The Animator's Survival Kit.

Favorite Artists or Illustrators:

M.C, Escher, Frank Frazetta

Favorite Music:

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, Raymond Scott, Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Rodgers and Hammerstein,, Lerner and Lowe

Favorite Robots:

Astro Boy, Al Gore