Chris Otsuki 9769 Via Pavia Burbank CA 91504 h. 818 767 8181 [email protected] link to storyboard samples: https://get.google.com/albumarchive/103482657846785576526 https://picasaweb.google.com/103482657846785576526 https://chrisotsuki.net/ (slower but newer stuff)
EDUCATION YALE UNIVERSITY B.A. Studio Art 1981 Honors: Cum Laude. Distinction in the Major
EXPERIENCE DISNEY TV storyboard artist September 2020-present storyboarding on Alice in Wonderland Bakery Director: Nathan Chew, Arielle Yett. Producer: Ciara Anderson
ODDBOT storyboard artist June 2020-september 2020 storyboarding on Muppet Babies. Directors: Matt Dahner, Tom Warburton, Guy Moore, Chris Moreno, Producer: Sunisa Petchpoo
DISNEY TV storyboard artist april 2014-June 2020 storyboarding on Fancy Nancy and Sofia the First. Director: Jamie Mitchell, Producer: Clay Renfroe
MARZA ANIMATION PLANET storyboard artist January 2014-march 2014 storyboarding on Robodog CGI feature. Director: Henry Anderson.
DISNEY TV storyboard artist December 2013 storyboarding on Sofia the First. Director: Jamie Mitchell, Producer: Clay Renfroe
DISNEYTOONS storyboard artist April 2013 – November 2013 storyboarding on Tinkerbell 7. Director: Elliot Bour Producer: Jan Hirota Head of Story: Robert Pratt CARTOON NETWORK storyboard artist December 2012-February 2013 Storyboard, Annoying Orange Director: Tom Sheppard Producer: Margot McDonough
WILDBRAIN ANIMATION storyboard artist April 2012-November 2012 Storyboard, Sheriff Calley’s Wild West Director: Howard Baker Production Manager: Tim Yoo
WARNER BROTHERS TELEVISION ANIMATION storyboard artist April 2009-March 2012 Storyboard, Looney Toons, Scooby Doo Video, Scooby Doo Mystery Inc Directors: Keith Baxter, Mike Goguen, Ethan Spaulding, Vic Cook
SD ENTERTAINMENT Storyboard artist March-April 2009 Storyboard on Angelina Ballerina. Director: Davis Doi
DISNEY TV storyboard artist May 2008-March 2009 storyboarding on Mickey’s Clubhouse. Directors: Howie Perkins, Donovan Cook.
EXODUS FILM GROUP Storyboard artist March-May 2008 Storyboard on Bunyan and Babe CGI feature. Director: Tony Bancroft
DISNEY TV storyboard artist May 2007-February 2008 storyboarding on Replacements. Director: Heather Martinez
STARZ FEATURE ANIMATION storyboard artist April 2006-April 2007 Storyboarding on Sheepish CGI feature. Director: Kevin Johnson
DISNEY TOONS STUDIOS storyboard artist/lyricist September 1998-April 2006 Storyboarding, Lyricist on Mickey Mouse and the Three Musketeers. little mermaid III, emperors new groove II, the Tigger Movie, Jungle Book II. Springtime for Roo. BrotherBear II, Cinderella III, Tinkerbell. Directors/Producers: Donovan Cook, Saul Blinkoff, Elliot Bour, Jun Falkenstien, Margot Pipkin, Carl Guers. Winner best song 2004 DVD Exclusive Variety Award – Three Musketeers lyricist “all for one and one for all” DREAMWORKS TV storyboard and development artist/writer April 1996-September 1998 Creator/Writer Melissa Screetch’s Morbid Morals. Scriptwriting, Storyboarding, development. Producers/Story Editors: Bill Kopp, Jeff DeGrandis
UNIVERSAL HARVEY CARTOONS Storyboard artist and assistant story editor June 1995-April 1996 Scriptwriting, Storyboarding, and Story Editing on Casper. Producer: Alfred Gimeno, Nancy Steingard Story Editor: Sherri Stoner
WARNER BROTHERS TELEVISION ANIMATION storyboard artist/writer November 1990-June 1995 Storyboard, layout, and Scriptwriting Tiny Toons, Tazmania, Animaniacs, Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries Producers/Directors: Tim Walker, Bob Kline, Kathleen Helppie, Art Vitello
Writing team nominated for 1991 Emmy for Best Writing in Animated Series - Tazmania
HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS Storyboard artist April 1990-November 1990 Once upon a Forest theatrical film. Producers: Charlie Grosvenor, Dave Michner
WARNER BROTHERS TELEVISION ANIMATION storyboard and layout artist April 1989-April 1990 Storyboard and layout Tiny Toons Director: Art Leonardi
HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS Character designer/Unit Head April 1982-April 1989 Supervised model crew for Smurfs, Snorks, etc. Designed characters, Also drew layouts, storyboards. Development artist for various show proposals.
Producers: Davis Doi, Larry Latham, Bob Hathcock
Chris Otsuki 9769 Via Pavia Burbank CA 91504 h.(818) 767 8181
Writing Credits 1985-Present
MICKEY MOUSE AND THE THREE MUSKETEERS (songs) Main Title: All for One and One for All (winner best song 2004 DVD Exclusive Variety award) Goofy’s Chains of Love Petey’s king of France Just Around the Corner This is the End The Wings of Love
MELISSA SCREETCH’S MORBID MORALS writer and creator of this segment of Toonsylvania
(four minute poems) Quit Making Ugly Faces The Boogey Man’ll get you Melissa Go Stand in the Corner Young Lady Teeth for Two Little Screetchin Riding Hood (song) Eewwww Don’t Swallow the Seeds Silly Here There be Monsters Plain as the Nose on Your Face Melissa Don’t Spoil Your Appetite The Little Screetchin Mermaid (song) Melissa and the Three Bears (song) Quit Bouncing Like that or You’ll Hurt Yourself Melissa Screetch; Earth Ambassador
IGOR’S SCIENCE MINUTE (one minute segments) The Unbearable Lightness of Helium (with Bill Kopp) Clone or Be Cloned Gravity of the Situation (with Jeff DeGrandis) Big Big Bang Theory (with Jeff DeGrandis) Blunder and Lightning (with Jeff DeGrandis) Resonant Frequency (with Jeff DeGrandis) Luck is Not a Factor (with Jeff DeGrandis)
TEX AVERY THEATRE (six minute shorts) Mile High Fly Tell Tale Fly Fortunate Fly Can’t Fly Me Love Quiet Please Dawn of the Dan
CASPER acted as assistant story editor (ten minute shorts) The Ghostfather (story by Sherri Stoner) The Fright Before Christmas Fatso of the Opera Frightening Storm
(one-two minute bumpers) A Really Scary Casper Moment The Ghostly Day (poem) The Hopeless Ghost (poem) The Ghostly Trio (poem) The Whipstaff Inmates (poem) Kat's Nightmare (song) Good Morning Dr. Harvey (song) Stink of the Road (song)
DAFFY DUCK’S ARCTIC ADVENTURE (three minute simulator ride and preshow)
WAYNEHEAD (eighteen minute shorts) No Mo' Money (story by Damon Wayans) To Be Cool or Not to Be (story by Grant Moran, Dianne Dixon, Kevin Hopps)
MARVIN 3-D (with Mark Eades, story by the Warners Writing Staff) Twelve minute 3D Marvin the Martian Featurette for Warner Brothers Theme Parks. Six minute Pre-show for Marvin 3D
MARVIN CHRONICLES Wrote bible and pilot episode for proposed Marvin the Martian series.
Pity for the Unpermitted (half hour pilot episode) Shove at First Sight (ten minute short) Yeechological Threat (with John Dymer) (ten minute short)
SYLVESTER AND TWEETY MYSTERIES Something Fishy Around Here (twenty minute short)
TAZMANIA (all ten minute shorts) Food for Thought Francis takes a Stand (all below co-written with Art Vitello) Here Kitty Kitty Kitty Taz and the Pterodactyl Here Kitty Kitty Kitty II Not a Shadow of a Doubt Mutton for Nuttin’ A Flea for Me Deer Taz Stuck for Bucks The Thing that Ate the Outback Taz in Keeweeland Gone to Pieces (with Art Vitello and Gordon Kent)
Tazmania team was nominated for the Emmy for Best Writing in Animated Series in 1991.
TINY TOON ADVENTURES (all six minute shorts) The Horn Blows at Lunchtime (with Tom Ruegger and Paul Dini) The Yearbook Lifeguard Lunacy (with Paul Dini)
SMURFS (twelve minute short) All Smurf and No Play (with Kevin Hopps)
SNORKS (eleven minute short) It’s Just a Matter of Slime (with Glenn Leopold)