Mark Gravas (born 29 September 1966) is an Australian animator,

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and producer. He is the creator/director of '' Yakkity Yak'' (2002/2003), an Australian/Canadian co-production. Mark co-owns Sydney based media production company Kapow Pictures with his partner Sandra Walters. Mark Gravas directed the 2005 animated film ''Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie'', He also designed and directed the 2006 Cartoon Network production of ''

Casper's Scare School ''Casper's Scare School'' (also known as ''Casper's Scare School: The Movie'') is a 2006 animated television film based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. The film premiered on Cartoon Network on October 20, 2006. ...

''. Gravas also co-owns the creative company Kapow Pictures, based in Sydney, Australia.

Life and career

Mark has lived in

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for most of his life. He left school at the end of year 10 and studied fine art, and later graphic design at Randwick Tafe. He traveled to London in his 20s and worked at various animation studios. He met his partner Sandra Walters in London. He directed a short film for Nickelodeon Ego from Mars in 1999 and also worked with Bradley Trevor Grieve BTG on Agent Green. He went on to create and direct the short film Show and Tell in 2001 which won an

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for best animated short in 2002. Mark created, designed and directed Yakkity Yak a 52 x 11 mins children's TV series for

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in 2003. He designed and directed Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie in 2005 and

in 2006. He co-created (and designed and directed)

CJ the DJ ''CJ the DJ'' is a French-Malaysian-Australian animation, animated television series and sitcom first broadcast on ABC3. The show was created by Stu Connolly and Mark Gravas and ran for 52 episodes. Overview ''CJ the DJ'' follows the adventures ...

with Stu Connolly, a 52 x 11 mins children's TV series shown on ABC 3 in 2009. Mark has also designed and directed music videos including Everyone Seems to be Out to Get You selected for

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and Tickle shown at Pictoplasma Berlin 2013.

References

External links

* *Kapow Picture

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