Lynne Naylor facts for kids

Lynne Rae Naylor is a talented Canadian artist, animator, designer, director, and producer for television. She is famous for helping create The Mighty Ones for DreamWorks. She also helped start the animation studio Spümcø and worked on the popular cartoon The Ren & Stimpy Show for Nickelodeon.

Lynne Naylor has contributed to many other well-known shows. These include Batman: The Animated Series, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, SpongeBob SquarePants, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Wander Over Yonder.

Animation Career

Lynne Naylor studied at Sheridan College, a well-known school for animation. In the 1970s, she moved to Hollywood to start her career in animation.

In 1981, she worked on a short film called Ted Bakes One. Later, in 1985, she traveled to Taiwan to help supervise the animation for a new version of The Jetsons. This was a common practice where animation work was done in other countries to save money.

After returning to Hollywood, Lynne Naylor worked on a music video for the Rolling Stones song "Harlem Shuffle" in 1986. She was responsible for much of the design and drawings for the animated parts of the video. This success led to more opportunities in animation. She also worked on an animated film project called Bobby's Girl, which unfortunately was not finished.

In 1987, she joined the team working on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures for the CBS network, where she was one of the cartoonists.

Starting Spümcø and Ren & Stimpy

In 1989, Lynne Naylor helped create the animation studio Spümcø with John Kricfalusi, Jim Smith, and Bob Camp. She was very important in developing The Ren & Stimpy Show.

It's said that the character Stimpy was partly inspired by Lynne Naylor. In 1989, Spümcø was asked to make a pilot episode for the show, then called Ren Höek & Stimpy. Lynne Naylor was heavily involved in drawing the pilot episode, Big House Blues.

The pilot was a success and led to a full TV series being ordered in 1990. Lynne Naylor played a key role in making the designs of Ren and Stimpy simpler for the TV show. This made it easier and faster to draw the characters frame by frame for each episode.

Ren & Stimpy became a very popular and influential cartoon. It was known for its unique humor and inspired many other animated shows that followed, like SpongeBob SquarePants.

Later Projects and Success

During the production of Ren & Stimpy, Lynne Naylor decided to leave the show in March 1991. She had completed important layout drawings for an episode called Stimpy's Big Day before she left.

After Ren & Stimpy, Lynne Naylor continued to work on many exciting projects. She produced and directed the animated film Hercules and Xena – The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus.

She also had major roles in designing characters for several beloved cartoons, including:

• The Powerpuff Girls
• Samurai Jack
• Star Wars: Clone Wars
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

In 2007, she co-created a pilot for Nickelodeon called The Modifyers with her husband, Chris Reccardi.

More recently, in 2020, Lynne Naylor and Sunil Hall created the DreamWorks series The Mighty Ones. This show is available on Hulu and Peacock.

Film and Television Work

Film

Television

Awards and Nominations

Lynne Naylor's amazing work has earned her several awards and nominations:

See also

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