Kevin Gamble, Animation Production & Development

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. 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. Kevin joined up with Vancouver-based Nerd Corps Entertainment in 2005 as their Director of Development and was responsible for managing Nerd Corps' slate of in-house and externally developed properties, which included the 3D animated series Storm Hawks (which aired on Canada's YTV and on Cartoon Network in theUnited States). In addition to actively seeking new relationships and business opportunities for the company, Kevin also acted as animation producer for a CG short that was commissioned by 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 the George of the Jungle series, a new 52 x 11 minute flash cartoon based on the Classic Media property. Upon the completion of "George", Classic Media hired Kevin to oversee their ongoing film & television efforts as the Vice President of Production & Creative Affairs. Stationed in the New York office, Kevin oversaw several projects including the CG animated series "Casper's Scare School", a Flash-animated DTV movie featuring Mr. Magoo, and three CG animated DTV "Veggie Tales" movies. In addition to his production roles, Kevin spearheaded Classic's TV & film development efforts. In November of 2009 Kevin was hired by Walt Disney Television Animation where he is currently serving as the Vice President of Development. Stationed on the Disney Lot in Burbank, California, Kevin is charged with developing animated series content for Disney's worldwide channels such as Disney Channel and Disney XD.