Peter Hixson (born October 31, 1966) is an American

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artist living in

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. He has worked in television animation for the past 15 years and presently supervises animation for Dreamworks Television's ''

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''.

Early life and career

Peter was born in

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, as the second son of a US Navy officer. The family moved to Washington, D.C., soon after his birth and he grew up in Maryland and later the

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area of southeast Virginia. Peter spent occasional bursts of energy drawing and sketching when not occupied with schoolwork and repairing old Saabs. He also was drawn into competitive swimming and sailing pursuits, qualifying for National Junior Olympics in distance freestyle events and competing for national junior sailor titles in both small dinghies and sailboards. Peter graduated from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

in Medford, Massachusetts, with a BA in history in 1988. He later attended film school at

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in Washington, D.C. One of his animated student films, ''Five Female Persuasions'', won a

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in Animation in 1992.Student Academy Award winners
/ref> Another animated film, ''Tennis'', won additional awards and screened in

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's Sick and Twisted Animation festivals. Peter moved to Los Angeles in 1993 and started at Klasky-Csupo Animation Studios, where he worked as an animation story editor and later as an animation timer. He has worked at a handful of Los Angeles animation studios on cable and broadcast animation series, including ''Real Monsters'', ''

Duckman ''Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man'', commonly known simply as ''Duckman'', is an American adult animated sitcom created and developed by Everett Peck, based on the characters he created in his 1990 one-shot comic book published by Dark Horse Com ...

'', ''Wild Thornberries'', ''Mission Hill'', ''The Oblongs'', ''

The Simpsons ''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a Satire (film and television), satirical depiction of American life ...

'', ''

Futurama ''Futurama'' is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company and later revived by Comedy Central, and then Hulu. The series follows Philip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1 ...

'', ''

Penguins of Madagascar ''Penguins of Madagascar'' is a 2014 American animated spy comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and PDI/DreamWorks and distributed by 20th Century Fox. A spinoff of the ''Madagascar'' film series, it was directed by Eric Darnell and ...

'', ''

Monsters Vs. Aliens ''Monsters vs. Aliens'' is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman from a screenplay written by Let ...

'' and ''

''.

References

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Movie Review: 'Trousers' Is Best Fit in Animation Fest
American animators 1966 births Living people Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni {{US-animator-stub