Chris Hamilton

Chris Hamilton (born December 19, 1974) is an American producer, animator and artist who is one of the producers and the creator of Corn & Peg. He is also the founder of OddBot Animation in 2006 (which his company is involved in the show).

## Wikipedia Info

### Biography

Christopher Hamilton was born in San Diego, California, on December 19, 1974 to a single mother raising 3 kids. He had a rough childhood, because when he was a toddler, his parents divorced leaving his mother to become a single mother, taking care of him and his 3 brothers as a result. Chris’ creatively in the arts has been unique to him, and animation was his prime focus every day since he was a child, when he saw the film *The Secret of Nimh*, and was obsessed with animated films from the 80s and the 90s as an influence. He attended as a student at Valhalla High School in El Cajon, California from 1989 to 1993. During that period he was part of the school‘s football team, crowned Senior King at his school's prom, was a huge Nirvana fan (which led the inspiration for Todd) and was named Most Talented Senior in Valhalla High. During College at the age of 19, he got a job directed theater. When Chris was 23, he tried to get to the famous California Institute of the Arts (Calarts), but was rejected, and instead sell jewelry at Citywalk at Universal Studios Hollywood. He entered the industry as the illustrator/designer for the highly successful Neopets.com, and then he later moved on to Cornerstone Animation where as Flash Animation Supervisor. He oversaw the production of the *LarryBoy* direct to DVD for Big Idea, and he then went on as Animation Director for Unbound Studios. In 2003, Chris and his partner Matthew Thornton of Microsoft started the animation studio One Red Room in Toluca Lake, CA, where they executive produced the Shanna Show shorts, based on the book series by Jean Marzollo and Shane W. Evans. They also did DVD animation for the home video release of *The Simpsons*, and came up with series ideas including *Doodle, Zombie and Robot Undercover Action Duo*, *Ghilbert the Ghoul Goblin*, and *Brad Intergalatic Zookeeper of Awesome*. And they also produced MTV2's *Chico & Guapo* series. In 2006, Thornton left One Red Room and Hamilton renamed the independent animation company to Oddbot as a response to Michele Weiss, exec director of original programming for Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior). They produced short original series using Flash Animation for The Walt Disney Company, Overstock.com, Amazon Studios, NBCUniversal and American Greetings. They later expanded through developing original series from other people like *Muppet Babies* and *Action Pack* (for Netflix}. He is also the company's President and Creative Director. He grew OddBot from himself to over 76 employees. In 2010, he gave birth to a daughter named Zoey Rose Hamilton. In the spring of 2014, after making shows and shorts based on existing property, Hamilton decided to make his own original idea for television. It took an inspiration from his daughter Zoey. When Zoey is 3, she and her best friend have a very important relationship with helping others, their hilarious made-up songs, dances, and handshakes (left right hey pachow). Zoey had the phsyical, mental and emotional trails she navigates daily and her experiences in elementary school. All of these inspired Chris to create *Corn & Peg* for her daughter Zoey. To create the show, he needed outside help. So he asked his company to develop and produced an animated pilot called *Corn & Peg* based on his concept. Chris was inspired by shows like *Beavis and Butthead*, *Ren & Stimpy*, and *My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic* (which his daughter Zoey Rose is a fan, and despite the show having a huge fanbase outside the target demographic nicknamed Bronies) to create *Corn & Peg*. He first pitched the show to Disney, but they rejected it for being too edgy. It was then selected at the Nickelodeon Animated Short Program in 2014. In 2016, he made a meeting with Scott Dyer, the President of Nelvana, because it was their 2004 series *6teen* that caught Chris's eye, and made the deal to sell his project to Nelvana and they greenlit to series with 20 episodes to which he is also the producer of the series and brought his OddBot crew to work on the show which also triggered both the Canadian animation industry and the American animation industry to collide and work together.

## Personal Life

He has a wife named Stephanie (who they married in 2001) and daughter named Zoey Rose (who is the inspiration of Peg). He has a brother named Tony.

## Trivia

* A character was named after him on the show.
* He is a huge Nirvana fan (espically Kurt Cobain).
* *Corn & Peg* was his first original project that he purposely created.
* During high school, he was one of most popular students.