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Producer

John C. Donkin

Bio

JOHN C. DONKIN (Producer) earned an Academy Award nomination in 2003 as the producer of “Gone Nutty,” an animated short created at Blue Sky Studios featuring the popular Scrat character from the “Ice Age” films. Donkin came to Blue Sky Studios in 1998, as a technical director; one of his first projects was to help complete the company’s Academy Award winning short film “Bunny.” He developed the production pipeline for Blue Sky’s first animated feature film project, “Ice Age,” before becoming the film’s associate producer, managing the production and its 160 person production crew. Since then, Donkin has produced several other Blue Sky Studios projects, including “Robots,” directed by Chris Wedge, Blue Sky’s Academy Award nominated short “No Time for Nuts” (produced with Lori Forte), “Aunt Fanny’s Tour of Booty” and “Surviving Sid.” Donkin began his computer animation career in 1983 when he joined the world renowned CGRG (Computer Graphics Research Group) at The Ohio State University. Shortly thereafter, he began working as a senior animator at Cranston/Csuri Productions. He directed animation for the IMAX film “Antarctica” and was part of the development team for the visualization software toolkit apE at The Ohio State University. Donkin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in cinematography and a Masters of Art Degree in computer animation and art education from The Ohio State University.

Producer- Job Description

The chief of a movie production in all matters save the creative efforts of the director. A producer is responsible for raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors.