Nick Cross (animator)

Nick Cross is a Canadian animator, artist, cartoonist, director, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles, California. His works include The Waif of Persephone, Yellow Cake, Pig Farmer, and Black Sunrise,^[1][2][3][4] which he wrote, directed, animated and produced. He is friends with graphic novel artist Troy Little^[5] and they collaborated on the development of the animated series Angora Napkin. He directed the pilot for the Nickelodeon series Pig Goat Banana Cricket created by graphic novel creator Dave Cooper and alternative comics creator Johnny Ryan. He was the double Emmy winning art director for the Cartoon Network acclaimed miniseries Over the Garden Wall as well as the network's shorts development program. He was the supervising producer on the Cartoon Network and HBO Max series Tig n' Seek.

He is married to cartoonist and comedian Marlo Meekins.

Black Sunrise

Black Sunrise is a planned feature film, produced and animated entirely by Nick Cross. Cross began the film before the rise in popularity of the internet, at which time he considered notions like the Illuminati and secret societies more mysterious and interesting to the general public than they are today. After completing 15 minutes of animation, time constraints prevented Cross from continuing his work on the film. Cross believes that the film, if completed, will not be received favorably because the topic of secret societies is overexposed, but he might still release segments of the film.^[6]

Filmography

Year	Title	Credit	Notes	Ref.
1997	Rupert	layout artist	13 episodes
2001–2003	Untalkative Bunny	storyboard artist
2001	The Red Scarf	producer, writer, animator, director		[7]
2001–2002	The Ripping Friends	model clean-up
2003	Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"	art director, background designer, storyboard artist
2006	Tenacious D - "Classico"	background artist		[5]
	The Waif of Persephone	producer, writer, animator, director		[2]
2007	Wayside	storyboard artist	2 episodes
2008	Danko Jones - "King of Magazines"	animator, co-director	Collaboration with Dave Cooper and Steve Stefanelli.	[3]
2009	Angora Napkin	creator, designer, animator, storyboard artist, background artist, layout artist, director	Co-created by Troy Little.
	Jimmy Two-Shoes	storyboard artist	"Meet the Gnomans"
	Spliced	storyboard artist	"Sgt. Snuggums"
	Yellow Cake	producer, writer, animator, director		[2]
2010	Scaredy Squirrel	storyboard artist	"Captain Nuts"
2010–2011	Babar and the Adventures of Badou		15 episodes
2011	The Pig Farmer	producer, writer, animator, director		[1]
2012	Pig Goat Banana Mantis!	animator, director		[8]
2013	Perihelion			[9]
	The Day My Butt Went Psycho!	storyboard artist		[10]
	Tome of the Unknown	background painter	Nick Cross awarded Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.	[11]
2014	Over the Garden Wall	art director	Nick Cross awarded Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.	[11]
	Back to Backspace
2015	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	storyboard artist	Time travel sequence	[12]
	Jammers	art director
	Ridin' with Burgess
	Twelve Forever	art director, background designer
	Uncle Grandpa	animator, storyboard artist, director	Bumpers in "Guest Directed Shorts"	[13]
		background painter	"The Great Spaghetti Western"
	Pig Goat Banana Cricket	storyboard artist, director	"Pig Goat Banana Cricket High Five!"
	Apple & Onion	art director
	Welcome to My Life	art director, background painter
	Long Live the Royals	character design	2 episodes
2016	Bottom's Butte	art director, prop designer
	Infinity Train
	Summer Camp Island	art director
	Victor and Valentino
2017	The Fancies	art director, prop designer
	Legendary Place	art director, prop designer, background designer
	Tiggle Winks	art director, prop designer, background painter
	Craig of the Creek	art director, prop designer, background designer, background painter
2018	Mushroom and the Forest of the World	art director, prop designer, background designer
	Sunshine Brownstone	art director, character designer, prop designer, color key, background designer, background painter
	Steamboat Willie Redux	animator, director, art director, character designer, prop designer, color key, background designer, background painter	Small animation for Steamboat Willie re-animation project by Disney Consumer Products	[14]
2019	Pops & Branwell	art director, prop designer
	Splitting Time	art director, prop designer, background painter
2020	Cadette in Charge	art director, prop designer
	Tig n' Seek	supervising producer
2021	Bone	co-executive producer	Cancelled in 2022 by Netflix Animation	[15]
2022-24	Smiling Friends	concept artist, background designer	2 episodes	[16][17]