Corny Cole is a surfer dude gone bad. His decline began when he went into animation went into animation s starting at Disney in 1954. He was an inbetweener on Lady and the Tramp. Between 1954 and 1961 he did layouts for Warner Bros, and his design concepts helped UPA and Steve Bosustow win the Animated Shorts Oscar for Mister Magoo.His fluid, creative design skills attracted the interest of Chuck Jones; Corny designed characters and did layouts on several of Chuck's films, including Gay Purr-ee and The Phantom Tollbooth. He was production designer on Shinbone Alley, Raggedy Ann and Andy, and The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie. He helped develop Richard Williams' The Cobbler and the Thief, was a segment writer on Heavy Metal, the title designer for Flesh Gordon, a layout artist on Pink Panther and Friends, Hillbilly Bears, The Secret Squirrel Show, The Ant and the Aardvark, Alvin and the Chipmunks,Little Nemo and a few other things here and there. He designed TV commercials at Murakami-Wolf, Spungbuggy and Filmfair, earning Clios for several commercial spots. For several years he worked out of his own studio, Corny Films. In addition to animated film making, Corny is a Fine Arts painter and sculptor, a poet, a book illustrator and, for nearly twenty years, an instructor at California Institute of the Arts.

Ladies and gentlemen, a big round of claps for Corny Cole.

2005 GOLDEN AWARDS PORTRAITS