Gene Hamm

I am an animator! My first job in Hollywood was on Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. That led to work in Saturday morning cartoons at Hanna-Barbera where their night classes taught me how to finish 30 drawings a day so they could get the Smurfs and Superfriends on the air. Later I worked on the Gumby TV series and taught animation and storyboards at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Recently I completed three animated features single-handedly, two of which (Hell Toupee and The Dream Hat) are currently streaming on Roku and Tubi.At Hanna-Barbera I had the best teachers such as Dave Tendlar and Bob Singer who worked on Popeye, Betty Boop, The Jetsons and Jonny Quest. Later I took the Animation Master Class from Richard Williams who animated Roger Rabbit.I want to pass on that knowledge to others. I can take people who think they can't draw and in an hour or two I can get them drawing the cartoon head from every angle and create their own characters.