Omar Hechtenkopf

mar started his career in the animation industry in the year 1989 in Jaime Diaz Studios in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jaime Diaz Studio’s portfolio of clients were very important American companies like Disney and Hanna-Barbera. In the studio, series like Tale Spin from Disney and Smurfs from Hanna-Barbera were animated. Omar also worked with Jorge Martin, Director of Catú Cine Animation, a very prestigious Argentinean production house dedicated to advertising, were he assisted animating TV spots. In the years ahead and without disconnecting himself from the animation industry, he started working in publishing and in 1994, he worked as illustrator for Clarín, one of the most important Argentinean newspapers. His work in Clarín were published in the Science, Health and Arquitecture supplements. During the same period of time, Omar to work again at Jaime Diaz Studios and is given the opportunity to animate pilots for a new project called “What a Cartoon”. Coincidentally, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera Studios was bought at the time by Turner Broadcasting System, which had established a 24 hours cartoon channel that was growing fast: Cartoon Network. One of the pilots produced by Jaime Diaz Studios narrated the story of a kid that hid from his parents a sophisticated laboratory in their house’s basement: “Dexter’s Laboratory”. He also participated in 1995 as a guest illustrator for the comic “Cibersix” (Trillo-Meglia) from Meridiana Comix. In the same year, he is part of the illustration staff for Néstor Córdoba, a very important Argentinean animator who led a kid supplement for a known Argentinean newspaper, part of Concordar S.A. company.

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