Robert Frank Camp is an animator, cartoonist, comic book artist, director, and producer. Camp has been nominated for two Emmys, a CableACE Award, and an Annie Award for his work on The Ren & Stimpy Show.
Camp started his animation career as a designer for animated series such as ThunderCats, Silverhawks, TigerSharks, and several other series produced by Rankin/Bass. He then worked as a designer on The Real Ghostbusters for DiC, and later as a storyboard artist on Tiny Toon Adventures for Warner Bros. Television.
Camp was a co-founder of and director for Spümcø, the animation studio that created The Ren & Stimpy Show. He played a major role in the studio's creative force until September 21, 1992, when he left to work for Games Productions (a.k.a. Games Animation), the animation studio Nickelodeon initially created to continue work on the The Ren and Stimpy show series after Spümcø had been fired. At Games, Camp was promoted to creative director of The Ren and Stimpy show and supervised work on the episodes made. After Ren and Stimpy had ended in 1995, Camp and former Ren and Stimpy writer Jim Gomez began developing a new series for Nickelodeon titled Kid Komet and Galaxy Gal, which was never picked up for a full series.
In the 2000s, Camp worked as a storyboard artist on animated feature films such as Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Ice Age: The Meltdown.
Camp currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
Robotboy[]
He got involved with Robotboy from series 2 (season 3 and 4) onwards, when Cartoon Network hired him. He accepted the job because of the pay he would get. Along with Heath Kenny, he directed seasons 3 and 4. According to Jan, he "didn't get" the show and ignored key elements of the previous season, including ignoring the series bible. He was later fired by Alphanim, at least due to his clashing mentality with most of the staff. Bob has since went silent on the series, this is likely due to his presumed apathy to the show or his firing.
Camp was also the co-writer of the following episodes:
Trivia[]
- Matt Jones, the storyboard artist of Tragic Magic, considers Camp a "Cartoon Maestro".
- He is a friend of writers Larry Hama and Nick Gibbons.