Joe Brumm

Joseph Brumm is an Australian animator director and writer After working on multiple British animated childrens shows he created the Peabody Awardwinning Australian animated television series Bluey Brumm was born in Winton in Central West Queensland the second of three boys His father worked for the Department of Primary Industries while his mother was a librarian After moving to Cairns when he was five years old his family finally settled in the states capital city of Brisbane when he was aged 12 where he began attending high school He graduated from Marist College Ashgrove in 1995 After finishing high school he studied animation at Griffith University and graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Animation Honors After graduating university Brumm relocated to London where he obtained work as an animator on several British series such as Charlie and Lola Peppa Pig Ben Hollys Little Kingdom and Tinga Tinga Tales  Brumm returned to Brisbane in 2009 and established a small animation studio called Studio Joho with the intent of making an Australian version of Peppa Pig swapping the pig characters with dog characters and changing the personality of the father figure The show would be titled Bluey Brumm decided the episodes of Bluey would centre around the two juvenile characters participating in playbased learning and creating their own adventures creating a oneminute sample in 2016 Ludo Studio a local company picked it up and helped Brumm expand the sample into a fiveminute pilot Brumm and his wife Suzy subsequently created the first season of 52 sevenminute episodes which were released in Australia in 2018 The show has gone on to achieve commercial success and critical acclaim internationally In 2001 Brumm created an animated short called Causes and he directed a 2015 short called The Meek In October 2021 Brumm was named Griffith Universitys Outstanding Alumnus  In June 2023 he was named as a Queensland Great Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Brumm licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia