J. J. Sedelmaier

J. J. Sedelmaier is an Emmy nominated American animation director, designer, and producer. He and his wife Patrice run J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc., an animation/graphic design studio they established in 1990 in White Plains, New York, to create and produce television commercials utilizing print illustrators as designers - an approach they continue to this day. He began his career in animation on cartoon television specials such as "Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City" (1981), "The Berenstain Bears' Valentine Special" (1982), and "Berenstain Bears' Littlest Leaguer" (1983). Between 1984 and 1990 Sedelmaier worked with R.O. Blechman at The Ink Tank in New York City. His studio's more recent works, which are more parody-oriented, include animation for "Saturday TV Funhouse" on "Saturday Night Live", the pilot episode of "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law", the Tek Jansen series for "The Colbert Report", and a series of interstitial cartoons for the USA/NBC live action series, "Psych". Sedelmaier collaborated with Robert Smigel on creating The Ambiguously Gay Duo, The X-Presidents, and the Fun With Real Audio cartoons for SNL. Stuart Hill was his collaborator on the Captain Linger series of interstitials for Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network. JJSP also launched the first season of MTV's acclaimed "Beavis and Butthead" series in 1993.

His father is Joe Sedelmaier, a director and producer of TV commercials.

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