Michael Kurinsky

Michael Kurinsky got his start in animation working on television commercials before getting hired at Walt Disney Feature Animation where he produced hand painted backgrounds on such films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Atlantis, Fantasia 2000, Home On The Range, and Beauty And The Beast: Special Edition. After almost ten years there, Michael left to join Sony Pictures Animation to work on the studio's first release, Open Season, as a visual development artist. Over his fourteen-year span there he also served as the art director on Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and production designer on Hotel Transylvania 2. In late 2017, he left Sony when approached by Warner Animation Group to production design the first all CG version of Scooby-Doo. "SCOOB" will hit theaters in May of 2020.