Kevin Gamble, Animation Production & Management Consultant

Biography: Kevin Gamble started his filmmaking career at the tender age of nine, shooting short movies on borrowed equipment. At age eleven, Kevin taught himself how to edit by sneaking into a government owned 3/4" linear suite after hours by bribing the evening janitor with pizza. By age fifteen, Kevin had parlayed his skills into a series of wins at student film festivals. After graduating from Vancouver Film School's Foundation Film Program, Kevin worked 'on set' for a few years as a grip, lamp operator, camera operator, assistant director and finally as director of photography. Armed with new technical, logistics and creative skills, Kevin shifted from live-action to the then emerging field of 3D animation. Kevin cut his teeth on some of the first television series to ever use CG technology. His first six years in computer animation were spent with CG production house Mainframe Entertainment, where he quickly rose up the ranks to producer. While with Mainframe, Kevin worked on two feature-length projects and well over 100 half-hour CG animated television episodes. He produced a one-hour CG animated Halloween special based on the Scary Godmother comic book by Jill Thompson, which was broadcast on YTV in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United States. Additionally, Kevin served as CG producer for the third season of Max Steel for Sony Pictures/Columbia TriStar. During this time, he also quietly served as a game master for a secret order of nerds who played Advanced Dungeons and Dragons once a week in a small backyard shed. Like, with the funny shaped dice and the little figures and everything. Seriously. In 2003, Kevin went independent, choosing to focus on developing and selling his own properties. Within one year of this decision he had co-signed a development deal with MTV Animation and joined Vancouver-based SecondSun Entertainment as their Chief Creative Officer. In 2005, Kevin joined up with Vancouver-based Nerd Corps Entertainment as their Director of Development and was responsible for managing Nerd Corps' slate of in-house and externally developed propertie (one of which being the 3D animated series Storm Hawks, which is currently airing on Cartoon Network). In addition to actively seeking new relationships and business opportunities for the company, Kevin also acted as the Animation Producer for a short produced for Walt Disney Television Animation. After his successful stint in development, Kevin has returned to his first love - producing and telling great stories. He hooked up with Vancouver's Studio B Productions and acted as Producer on their George of the Jungle series, a new 52 x 11 minute flash cartoon based on the Classic Media property, which is currently airing on both Teletoon and Cartoon Network Kevin is currently working as a management consultant, helping creators, producers & studios as they pitch, produce and deliver hit content in today's rapidly changing landscape.