Biography
Bob Miller has been involved in animation for over three decades, as a writer (Gerhard Hahn Filmproductions, Germany; Stretch Films, New York; Cornerstone Animation, Glendale, CA); character animator (Sullivan Bluth Productions), special effects animator (Rich Entertainment, Warner Bros.), and storyboard artist (Film Roman, Universal, Disney TV Animation, Cartoon Network, MGM, Hyperion, Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, Philips Media, Cornerstone Animation and SD Entertainment).
In 1998 Bob became Storyboard Supervisor on The Lionhearts for MGM Animation. A year later he served as Storyboard Supervisor for the first season of Courage the Cowardly Dog for The Cartoon Network. He developed the template for Courage to be the first cartoon compatible with the HDTV format. He joined The Simpsons as a storyboard artist in June 1999. He boarded Act One of "Behind the Laughter," the episode that won The Simpsons its 16th Emmy. In June 2001, he joined Cornerstone Animation as Creative Director of Your Child, a direct-to-video series for Focus on the Family, and co-wrote and storyboarded two episodes of the hand-drawn animated Veggie Tales series, Larryboy. In 2003, Bob became storyboard supervisor on the Cartoon Network series, Megas XLR. In 2005 he was storyboard supervisor for Say It with Noddy for SD Entertainment. He returned to The Simpsons in 2006 and won a second Emmy certificate for storyboarding Act One of the episode "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind."
He served a lengthy term on the board of directors at the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood. He is a member of ASIFA-Hollywood, the Animation Guild, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
For his contributions to the animation field, Bob was honored with a Certificate of Merit at the 28th Annual Annie Awards.
