Chris Siemasko
Animator, My Adventures with Clöe
A nerdy kid called Timmy befriends a 900-year-old chain-smoking, cranky sea monster in New York-based Chris Siemasko’s hilarious animated pilot, . Co-produced by Canada’s Fatkat studios and New York’s Big Hug Productions for Teletoon, the short has become an offbeat gem. “Together Clöe and Timmy meet other magical creatures like Bigfoot, Chupacabras or an enchanted hobo,” elaborates Siemasko. “But they also tackle everyday challenges like Timmy being bullied or Clöe’s dating and drug problems.”
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The idea originally came from the mind of New York comedian Buddy Bolton, who befriended Siemasko and began their collaboration. “When Buddy was in college, he wrote it and performed it as a stage play,” says Siemasko. “Then he stored it in a vault for about a decade; we met, and I loved his ideas right away.”
Siemasko, who graduated from the Art Institute of Philadelphia in 1999, had already worked on projects like Showtime’s Queer Duck and Noggin’s Pinky Dinky Doo” before designing and keying the pilot for Clöe. Canada’s Fatkat studio then came on board to
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