JASON LETHCOE
jasonlethcoe@mac.com
2021- Disney Television Animation
Story Artist/ Monsters At Work
2020-2021
Story Artist/ Wildbrain Productions/Apple
Peanuts
2018-2020 Alcon Animation
Story Artist
Garfield Movie
2015-2018 Walt Disney Studios
Head of Story- Haunted Mansion
Story-Tumbleweed
2013-2015 Paramount Pictures
Head of Story/Development - Wonder Park
2002-2013 Sony Pictures Animation Culver City, CA
Head of Story, Story Artist/Development/Director
Wrote and directed in development Cloudy with a Chance of Clones short
Head of Story (development) on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,
Story Artist on Surf’s Up, Hotel Transylvania, A Smurfs Christmas Carol, Rustboy, Popeye, Kazorn
and several undisclosed projects for Sony Pictures Animation
1997-2002 Walt Disney Company Burbank, CA
Animation Supervisor/Story Artist
WRITER/PUBLISHED AUTHOR
2017-2022 DISNEY PUBLISHING
WRITER/PUBLISHED AUTHOR
2017-2022 DISNEY PUBLISHING
Author/Illustrator
TALES FROM ADVENTURELAND trilogy
THE MOUSE WATCH trilogy
2010-2012 THOMAS NELSON
Author
NO PLACE LIKE HOLMES trilogy
2007-2010 GROSSET AND DUNLAP
Author
THE MISADVENTURES OF BENJAMIN PIFF trilogy
Optioned by Universal Studios.
THE MYSTERIOUS MR. SPINES series.
Optioned by Sony Pictures Animation.
2006 BALLANTINE BOOKS
Author
AMAZING ADVENTURES FROM ZOOM’S ACADEMY
(The property was optioned by Revolution Studios and made into the movie ZOOM starring Tim Allen.)
FOX ANIMATION
Writer
Undisclosed Screenplay for Fox Animation Studios.
MARZA ANIMATION PLANET
Writer
Screenplay/development THE GHOST KING and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
BAGDASARIAN PRODUCTIONS
Writer/Supervising Producer
ALVIN!!!
JIM HENSON PRODUCTIONS
Writer
CURSE OF THE MURPHYS optioned for development as a feature film.
ANIMEX
Writer
LAND OF SOKMUNSTER screenplay
PRESIDENT of Wizardtree Animation Studios Inc.
Produced, directed and wrote new media for educational clients including Wireless Generation. Also illustrated children’s media for Renegade Animation.
Directed and developed Pirates Of The Caribbean DTV animated feature
Animation Supervisor for Walt Disney’s Frankenstein
Head of Story/ Story Artist/ Development at Walt Disney Feature Animation on Don Quixote, Snow Queen, and Fantasia 3.
Other projects for the studio included The Tigger Movie and Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas.
1988-1997 Various Studios and Projects
Director/Animator
· Directed Commercials at Olive Jar Animation for clients including McDonald’s, Sony,
· HBO and an animated segment for The Puzzle Place children’s television show.
· Co-created and drew a new comic book series for Marvel Comics titled The Marvelous Adventures of Gus Beezer
· 2d Animator at Warner Brother’s Classics on several Bugs Bunny shorts and commercials. 2d Animator at Turner Feature Animation on The Pagemaster
· Inbetweener at Walt Disney studios on The Little Mermaid
· Worldfest Houston Gold Award for animation of Bugs Bunny on Nike’s “Hare Jordan” commercial.
Nominated for the 2001 Lighthouse Award for Best Debut of a new comic book series. Member WGA, The Author’s Guild, and the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Shortlisted for the 2010 Leserpries German “Reader’s Choice” Award. Finalist in the 2012 Retailer’s Choice Awards.
