Craig McCracken

Craig McCracken (born March 31, 1971) is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer. He is known for creating Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Disney Channel and Disney XD's Wander Over Yonder, and Netflix's Kid Cosmic.

Filmography
+ Films Year Title Role 1991 No Neck Joe Creator, director, writer, and animator  1992 Whoopass Stew! Creator, director, writer, and animator 1999 Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip Story 2002 The Powerpuff Girls Movie Creator, director, story, writer, executive producer, storyboard artist, character designer, and character layout 2009 The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!! Creator, Writer, Story, director, executive producer, story editor, storyboard artist, and character designer

+ Television Year Title Role 1993–1995 2 Stupid Dogs Art director 1995 Space Ghost Coast to Coast Himself  1995–1997 What a Cartoon! Writer, director, and art director 1995–1996 Dumb and Dumber Character designer 1996–2003 Dexter's Laboratory Director, art director, model designer, and storyboard artist 1998–2005 The Powerpuff Girls Creator, story, executive producer, writer, storyboard artist, recording director, and director (1998-2002; 2008) 2004–2009 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Creator, executive producer, art director, character designer, developer, story, writer, storyboard artist, director, and story editor 2007Diggs Tailwagger: Galactic RoverExecutive creative consultantEnter Mode 5 2008Uncle GrandpaExecutive producer  2009Chowder Story and storyboard artist Regular ShowExecutive producer  2013–2016Wander Over Yonder Creator, writer, storyboard artist (2013), director (2013), story, character designer, executive producer, and additional voices 2021–2022Kid Cosmic Creator, executive producer, story, writer, storyboard artist, character designer, director

Awards and nominations
 Date Award Category Work Shared with Result Ref  Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) Dexter's Laboratory (for "The Big Sister") Larry Huber, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Paul Rudish    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) Dexter's Laboratory (for "Star Spangled Sidekicks", "TV Super Pals", and "Game Over") Sherry Gunther, Larry Huber, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Jason Butler Rote    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) The Powerpuff Girls (for "Bubblevicious" and "The Bare Facts") John McIntyre, Amy Keating Rogers, Jason Butler Rote, and Genndy Tartakovsky    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or Less) The Powerpuff Girls (for "Beat Your Greens" and "Down 'N Dirty") Robert Alvarez, John McIntyre, Randy Myers, Amy Keating Rogers, and Genndy Tartakovsky    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour) The Powerpuff Girls (for "Moral Decay" and "Meet the Beat Alls") Robert Alvarez, Lauren Faust, John McIntyre, Amy Keating Rogers, and Genndy Tartakovsky    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) The Powerpuff Girls (for "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas") Robert Alvarez, Lauren Faust, Juli Hashiguchi, Craig Lewis, John McIntyre, Brian A. Miller, Randy Myers, Amy Keating Rogers, Chris Savino, James Tim Walker    Annie Awards Best Production Design in an Animated Television Production Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "A Lost Claus") Mike Moon, Dave Dunnet, and Martin Ansolabehere   Annie Awards Best Directing in an Animated Television Production Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Duchess of Wails")    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "House of Bloo's")     Annie Awards Best Directing in an Animated Television Production Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Bus the Two of Us")    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Go Goo Go") Brian A. Miller, Lauren Faust, Jennifer Pelphrey, Vince Aniceto, Robert Alvarez, Eric Pringle    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for "Good Wilt Hunting") Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, Lauren Faust, Vince Aniceto, Michelle Papandrew, Darrick Bachman, Craig Lewis, Robert Alvarez, Eric Pringle, Robert Cullen    Annie Awards Directing in an Animated Television Production or Short Form Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for Destination: Imagination) Rob Renzetti    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (for Destination: Imagination) Jennifer Pelphrey, Michelle Papandrew, Tim McKeon, Ed Baker, Alex Kirwan, Robert Alvarez, Brian A. Miller, Ryan Slater, Lauren Faust, Darrick Bachman, Vaughn Tada, Rob Renzetti, Eric Pringle    Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program Uncle Grandpa (for "Pilot") Peter Browngardt, Janet Dimon, Robert Alvarez, Rob Renzetti, Brian A. Miller, Jennifer Pelphrey, and Rob Sorcher    Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production Wander Over Yonder     Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program Wander Over Yonder (for "The Gift 2: The Giftening") Francisco Angones, Amy Higgins, Lauren Faust, Ben Joseph, Johanna Stein, Dave Thomas, Eddie Trigueros    Annie Awards Best Character Design - TV/Media Kid Cosmic (for "Kid Cosmic and the Rings of Power!")    Annie Awards Winsor McCay Award     Children's and Family Emmy Awards Individual Achievement in Animation Kid Cosmic   

References

Other websites


 Craig McCracken's deviantART account



 10 Questions: Craig McCracken



Category:American animators
Category:American television directors
Category:American television producers
Category:1971 births
Category:The Powerpuff Girls
Category:Cartoon Network
Category:Television writers