Frederick Gardner

Frederick Gardner was born and raised in Southern California. His career in film began in 1989 when he was approached by the Publicity Dept of Warner Bros to help design the launch of Tim Burton's Batman. He attended film school at UCLA and Art Center before finding his calling in animation at CalArts. His artistic influences range from Hieronymous Bosch to Eyvind Earle and Maurice Noble. After a year in attendance, he was recruited by the producers of The Simpsons to animate on the first few seasons and the main title.

A preference for design led to his success at Warner Bros Animation on such shows as Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Space Jam, The Iron Giant and classic shorts with Bugs & Daffy. His work also includes The Tick, Duck Dodgers, Johnny Quest, Toonsylvania, Hercules, Samurai Jack and Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.

While serving as an Infantryman/Bomb Squad Tech/Parachute Rigger in the US Army & CA ARNG (2000 - 2008), Frederick received three Emmys for his animation on The Simpsons and his unique designs on television series, The Powerpuff Girls and Juniper Lee at Cartoon Network.

Frederick seeks to create unique, hand made, and impactful images that provoke thought, raise questions and inspire. You can see his work in Free Birds, Tomorrowland and The Book of Life. Recently, he worked as a visual development artist on the recent animated projects like SCOOB, Space Jam 2 for the Warner Animation Group, Monsters At Work (Pixar) for Disney Television, Charlie's Chocolate Factory and the limited series, Maya and the Three for Netflix, The Baby Shark Movie, Loud House 2 and Casagrandes animated features for Nickelodeon/Paramount.

Professor Frederick Gardner also teaches Design for Animation as a guest lecturer around the country and weekly at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Role with the VES

Member of the VES since 2015 through endorsements from Reel FX, Dallas, TX