Robert Paul Jaques (born November 2, 1956) is a Canadian–American animator and director. He is best known for the television series The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Baby Huey Show and SpongeBob SquarePants.Twitter He also was nominated for two Emmys in 1992 and 1993 for his contributions to The Ren & Stimpy Show.

Early life and career Jaques' fascination with animation began by watching the Fleischer Popeye cartoons as a kid, and he never thought of animating as a profession. He also did some stop motion animations since he was a fan of Ray Harryhausen films. One day, he got sick with mononucleosis and did nothing but watch cartoons. Jaques didn't "draw religiously" like other children his age but he was basically self-taught. He got curious in traditional animation when he was older and applied for an animation course in Sheridan College which didn't work the first time but when he drew with more effort it worked the second time. At Sheridan, he met with John Kricfalusi and Jaques showed 16mm prints during lunch hours of shorts from the Golden age of American animation, which a crowd of people would come in and John would be one of the regulars. Kricfalusi saw one of Jaques' animated shorts, which was based on a Robert Crumb comic called Tales from the Land of Genitalia, in which Jaques animated a penis with arms and legs jerking itself off, and Kricfalusi, when he saw the short, immediately thought he could animate. Eventually, Kricfalusi and Jaques became great friends because they both had an interest in golden age cartoons.

Jaques animation career started at Nelvana in the 1970s as an assistant animator for Jeff Short, an employee for the Richard Williams Studio. It didn't last long since Short got frustrated at the Nelvana animation process, so Jaques switched over the Nelvana commercial department with Mark Mayerson. He headed to Los Angeles in 1981, and his first job there was working for the show Laverne & Shirley in the Army. His first work with Kricfalusi was an animation director for the "Harlem Shuffle" music video, which was animated at Bagdasarian Productions and was part of a pitch piece presented by Ralph Bakshi and drawn by Kricfalusi. Ralph made a deal with The Rolling Stones to make the video for the single. In 1989, Kricfalusi called Jaques and recruited him to animate on the pilot short for Ren and Stimpy, based on two characters Kricfalusi originally pitched as pets within an Our Gang parody, Your Gang. Jaques and Kelly Armstrong worked on the pilot in Vancouver, and Jaques sent pencil tests to Spümcø for approval. Jaques and his animation company, Carbunkle Cartoons, went on to supply animation for the show in its first two seasons, animating notable episodes such as Stimpy's Invention, Son of Stimpy and Space Madness.

He is currently the host of the Cartoon Logic podcast with Thad Komorowski.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1983 Rock & Rule Assistant Animator 1984 The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine Assistant Animator 1985 Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins Animator 1985 The Care Bears Movie Animator 1986 Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation Animation Posing Artist 1986 Star Wars: The Great Heep Character Posing Artist 1997 The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue Animation DirectorAnimator Uncredited 1998 The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars Animation DirectorAnimator Uncredited 2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto Animation Director N/A

Television Year Title Role # of Eps 1985 Ewoks character layout artist 13 1987 The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin key animator 60 1988 Dennis the Menace senior key animatorsheet director 1313 1990–1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles storyboard artist 41 1991–1993 The Ren & Stimpy Show animation directoranimator 188 1993 2 Stupid Dogs animation director 4 1994 The Baby Huey Show developerwriterproducerdirectoranimation director 2691349 1996–1997 What a Cartoon! animation directoranimator 11 1997 Space Goofs story 3 1998 I Am Weasel animation director 1 1998 Cow and Chicken animation director 1 1999 Boo Boo Runs Wild (short) timing director N/A 1999 The New Woody Woodpecker Show supervising producer (seasons 1-2)supervising director (seasons 1-2)voice director (seasons 1-2)developer 26 2000 Family Guy director 1 2001–2002 The Oblongs director 2 2001 Time Squad timing director 1 2001 Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law animation timer 1 2002–2005 My Life as a Teenage Robot director 2 2003 Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" animation directorsheet timer 41 2006–2008 Robotboy animation timerlead timing director 1514 2007–2008 Wayside director's notes 29 2008 The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack sheet timer (Uncredited) 1 2015 Uncle Grandpa animation directorsheet timer 41 2016–2018 SpongeBob SquarePants animation directortiming director 211 2020 The Tom and Jerry Show storyboard artist 12020Looney Tunes Cartoonsanimator2 2025 Bullet Time animation director 1 Ren & Stimpy animation director 10

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