John Holmquist is an American animator, director, designer, and storyboard artist. He has worked on several episodes of ''
Rugrats
''Rugrats'' is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil, and their day-to-d ...
'' as a director and storyboard artist from the late 1990s to early 2000s. In 2003, he won a
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program
The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program had been awarded annually between 1985 and 2021. Until 1993, the award was just known as the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. ''Arthur'' held the record for mos ...
for his work on Rugrats. Holmquist has also acted as a director for some episodes of ''
Family Guy
''Family Guy'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series premiered on January 31, 1999, following Super Bowl XXXIII, with the rest of the first season airing from April 11, 1999. Th ...
''.
Career
For Klasky Csupo, Inc.
He has designed the main characters and appeared as a director for many episodes of the
animated
Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby image, still images are manipulated to create Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on cel, transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and e ...
television series
A television show, TV program (), or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, and cable, or distributed digitally on streaming plat ...
''
Rugrats
''Rugrats'' is an American animated television series created by Arlene Klasky, Gábor Csupó, and Paul Germain for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil, and their day-to-d ...
'' from 1991 to 1998 and acts as a
storyboard artist
A storyboard artist (sometimes called a story artist or visualizer) creates storyboards for advertising agencies and film productions.
Work
A storyboard artist visualizes stories and sketches frames of the story. Quick pencil drawings and mar ...
for other later episodes from 2001 to 2004 and the three
theatrical film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a film (motion picture, "movie" or simply “picture”) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation ...
s.
Here is a partial list of ''Rugrats'' episodes he has worked on:
As a director
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Radio Daze"
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Heatwave
A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather generally considered to be at least ''five consecutive days''. A heat wave is usually measured relative to the usual climate in the area and ...
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Faire Play"
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The Art Fair"
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Dust Bunnies
Dust bunnies (or dustbunnies) are small clumps of dust that form under furniture and in corners that are not cleaned regularly. They are made of hair, lint, flakes of dead skin, spider webs, dust, and sometimes light rubbish and debris and a ...
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Turtle Recall
''The Discworld Companion'' is an encyclopaedia of the Discworld fictional universe, created by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs. Four editions have been published, under varying titles.
The ''Companion'' contains precise definitions of wor ...
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Angelica Orders Out"
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Grandpa's Bad Bug"
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Johnathan Babysits"
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The Fugitive"
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Uneasy Rider
"Uneasy Rider" is a 1973 song written and performed by American singer and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Daniels. It consists of a narrative spoken over a guitar melody, and is sometimes considered a novelty song. Otfinoski, Steve, The Gold ...
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Babysitting Fluffy"
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No Naps"
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Chuckie's a Lefty"
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Zoo Story"
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Hand Me Downs"
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The Jungle
''The Jungle'' is a novel by American author and muckraking-journalist Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information ...
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Pedal Pusher"
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Silent Angelica"
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Runaway Reptar"
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Cooking With Susie"
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A Dog's Life
'' Dog's Life'' is a 2003 video game for the Sony PlayStation 2.
Dog's Life or A Dog's Life may refer to:
Music
*"A Dog's Life", a song by Nina Nastasia, from the album ''Dogs''
*"Dog's Life", a song by eels from the '' Welcome to Woop Woop'' so ...
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Thumbs Up
A thumb signal, usually described as a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, is a common hand gesture achieved by a closed fist held with the thumb extended upward or downward, respectively. The thumbs-up gesture is associated with positivity, approval, ac ...
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Accidents Happen"
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Bug Off"
As a storyboard artist / character designer
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The First Cut"
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Chuckie Grows"
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Tommy's First Birthday"
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Barbeque Story"
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Waiter There's a Baby in My Soup"
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At the Movies"
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Reptar on Ice"
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Baby Commercial"
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Little Dude"
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Lady Luck
Lady Luck, a personification of luck, may refer to:
Fiction and mythology
* Fortuna, in Roman mythology, goddess of fortune
* Tyche, in Greek mythology, goddess of fortune
* Lady Luck (comics), a character created by Will Eisner
Film
* ''L ...
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Real or Robots"
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Special Delivery
Special Delivery may refer to:
* Special delivery (postal service), a postal service for urgent postal packets
Literature
* "Special Delivery" (short story), a 1953 short story by Damon Knight
* ''Special Delivery'' (novel), a 1997 novel by ...
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Ruthless Tommy"
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Toy Palace"
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Sand Ho!"
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Grandpa's Teeth"
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The Bank Trick"
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The Santa Experience"
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Let There Be Light
"Let there be light" is an English translation of the Hebrew (''yehi 'or'') found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase (''genēt ...
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In 1994–1999, Holmquist designed characters for ''
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' is an American animated television series developed by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon. It is the fifth Nicktoons, Nicktoon after ''Doug (TV series), Doug'', ''Rugrats'', ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' and ''Rocko's Modern Li ...
''.
''Family Guy''
Holmquist has also directed the following episodes:
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Running Mates
A running mate is a person running together with another person on a joint ticket during an election. The term is most often used in reference to the person in the subordinate position (such as the vice presidential candidate running with a pres ...
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Airport '07
"Airport '07" is the twelfth episode of season five of the animated sitcom ''Family Guy''. The episode originally broadcast on Fox on March 4, 2007. The plot follows the Griffin family's neighbor Quagmire being dismissed from his job as a pilo ...
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Stewie Kills Lois"
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Play it Again, Brian
"Play It Again, Brian" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of ''Family Guy''. The episode originally was broadcast on Fox on March 2, 2008. The episode follows Peter and Lois, who are going through a rough time in their marriage. Brian invi ...
"
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Ocean's Three and a Half"
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We Love You, Conrad"
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Hannah Banana"
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Extra Large Medium"
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Excellence in Broadcasting"
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Leggo My Meg-O"
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Yug Ylimaf"
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Call Girl
A call girl or female escort is a prostitute who (unlike a street prostitution, street walker) does not display her profession to the general public, nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by ...
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Finders Keepers
Finders keepers, sometimes extended as the children's rhyme finders keepers, losers weepers, is an English adage with the premise that when something is unowned or abandoned, whoever finds it first may claim it for themselves to own, by the “f ...
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Mom's the Word"
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Brian the Closer"
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Our Idiot Brian"
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Pawtucket Pete"
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Bri, Robot
The seventeenth season of ''Family Guy'' aired on Fox in the United States from September 30, 2018, to May 12, 2019.
The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter Griffin, Peter, mother Lois Griffin, Lois, daug ...
"
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Start Me Up
"Start Me Up" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones from their 1981 album '' Tattoo You''. Released as the album's lead single, it reached number one on Australian Kent Music Report, number two in Canada, number two on the ''B ...
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Christmas Is Coming
"Christmas Is Coming" is a traditional nursery rhyme and Christmas song frequently sung as a round. It is listed as number 12817 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
Lyrics
The following are common representative lyrics:
:Christmas is coming, the go ...
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Yacht Rocky"
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La Famiglia Guy"
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Bend or Blockbuster"
References
External links
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Living people
American storyboard artists
American television directors
American animated film directors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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