Tuck Tucker
Tuck Tucker is an American writer, artist, animator, songwriter, and director best known for SpongeBob SquarePants.
Early life and education
Tuck Tucker was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. Due to his poor school performance, his parents put him into a private school. He would spend most of his time at home watching cartoons with his father and cites these experiences as being very special to him.Career
While in animation class, his instructor moved him to Los Angeles after graduation for work at Disney to work on films like The Little Mermaid as his first animation job. Afterwards, he left to work on shows like The Simpsons from FOX. Then going to Nickelodeon while switching from storyboard work on Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters to directing on Hey Arnold!. While after that, he moved on to SpongeBob SquarePants by his own choice and Hey Arnold! close to ending. He went from being a storyboard artist on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, to writing episodes of the show as a writer and storyboard director, and then to being a supervising storyboard director. During his time on SpongeBob, he won the 38th Annual Annie Award in 2011 for Best Music in a Television Production alongside Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, and Nick Carr. Afterward, he went to direct on The Fairly OddParents during its ninth season. In January 2015, Tucker began teaching graphic and animation design at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1987 | Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night | Breakdown Artist |
| 1988 | ' | Assistant Animator |
| 1989 | Back to Neverland | Assistant Animator |
| 1989 | The Little Mermaid | Breakdown and In between Artist |
| 1990 | Flower Planet | Concept Developer & Animator |
| 1996 | "Arnold" | Layout Artist, Storyboard Artist, & Supervising Director |
| 1997 | Tales of Worm Paranoia | Layout Artist |
| 1998 | Planet Kate | Storyboard Artist |
| 1999 | Curbside | Storyboard Artist |
| 2002 | ' | Director |
| 2004 | Party Wagon | Character Designer, Prop Designer, Sheet Timer, Storyboard Artist, & Director |
| 2004 | Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas | Storyboard Artist |
| 2004 | The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour | Creative Consultant |
| 2004 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | Storyboard Artist |
| 2005 | ' | Assistant Director |
| 2006 | ' | Creative Consultant |
Television
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1988–1989 | A.L.F. | Storyboard Clean-Up |
| 1990–1993; 1995 | The Simpsons | Storyboard Artist Layout Artist Character Layout Artist Animation Timer Background Layout Artist |
| 1991; 1994–1995 | Rugrats | Character Layout Artist Storyboard Artist Assistant Director |
| 1992–1993 | The Ren and Stimpy Show | Layout Artist |
| 1993 | 2 Stupid Dogs | Storyboard Artist |
| 1994–1995 | Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | Storyboard Artist |
| 1994–1996 | ' | Storyboard Artist |
| 1996–2004 | Hey Arnold! | Creative Director Supervising Director Storyboard Director Storyboard Supervisor Director |
| 2002–2006 | ' | Creative Consultant |
| 2005 | Camp Lazlo | Writer & Storyboard Artist |
| 2005–2006 | Family Guy | Storyboard Artist Assistant Director |
| 2005–2006 | Drawn Together | Director |
| 2006–2014 | SpongeBob SquarePants | Writer & Storyboard Director Songwriter Supervising Storyboard Director |
| 2006–2007 | Squirrel Boy | Storyboard Artist |
| 2008 | The Mighty B | Storyboard Revisionist |
| 2013–2014 | The Fairly OddParents | Director |
| 2014 | Clarence | Sheet Timer, Storyboard Supervisor, & Storyboard Revision Supervisor |
| 2015 | All Hail King Julien | Storyboard Artist |