Ryan Khatam

Ryan Khatam is an American born animator and director. His biggest influences appear to be early John Kricfalusi and Spumco, but also credits his other inspirations as Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, as well as others.

History

Ryan began animating very early, at the age of 14, in the year 1998. His first animation was very crude using a basic stick figure. He studied animation at Rancho Bernardo High School, Palomar College, Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, and most recently The Animation Academy. As his animations continued his drawing capabilities improved, and created better, more fluid animation. His first "freelance job" was to animate deaths for the sequel to Gorillas. The second time, he was contacted by Conspiracy Games to create a sequel to his own Johnny Rocketfingers. In 2006 Nickelodeon asked Ryan as well as friend and fellow artist David Gemmill, to create Gecko and Sticky, an animation for Shredderman Rules. Ryan is currently creating a pilot for his childhood character, [http://www.crackedanimations.com/uccomics.htm Up-Chuk-Duck]

Ryan's entire portfolio can be found [http://www.crackedanimations.com/portfolio/portfolio.htm here]

tyle

Ryan's Style is very distinct. He is most well know for his stick figure animations. Most of the time he uses Macromedia Flash to animate, but has used other products such as painter. Most of his "non-stick" animations have been compared to Ren and Stimpy, in both style and humor. Even though he enjoys the artwork of John K he does not like him very much on a personal basis. Ryan's style is also much more fluid, and cartoony than most other flash animations.

References

*http://www.crackedanimations.com/about.htm
*http://www.crackedanimations.com/portfolio/portfolio.htm
*http://www.crackedanimations.com/portfolio/education.htm
*http://www.crackedanimations.com/gorillasgame.htm
*http://www.crackedanimations.com/variety.htm
*http://crackedanim.blogspot.com/search/label/john%20k
*http://www.crackedanimations.com/uccomics.htm

External links

* [http://www.crackedanimations.com/ The Cracked Animations Official Web Site]
* [http://crackedanim.blogspot.com/ Ryan Khatam's Blog-O-Rama]
* [http://neat-stuff-blog.blogspot.com/ Ryan's Neat Stuff Blog] where he post informative articles on animation