2. Bob Kurtz was born in Los Angeles, California and graduated from the
Chouinard Art Institute which is now called ‘The California Institute of the
Arts’ Bob Kurtz is the founder of ‘Kurtz & friends animation’. He is also a
director, producer, a artist and designer. He is also involved and has a career
in films and Television commercials. He is a teacher of the ‘Character
Animation program’ and has taught this in the ‘California institute of the arts’
as character animation is one of his specialties.
Bob Kurtz is the winner of over 250 awards including:
• Peabody award
• Emmy award,
• Annie Award for Lifetime Achievement,
• Clio Awards,
• U.S. Television & Film Festival - New York
and many more.

3. Kurtz and friends is a animation studio founded by Bob in 1981. The company was
based in Burbank – California . Kurtz and friends were most known for producing
film and television commercials. The first piece of work created by the company
was the special effects for ‘A Midsummer Nights sex comedy’ in 1982. Working
together with Kurtz, Kurtz and friends created the main titles for ‘The pink
panther’, ‘Are we done yet’ , ‘George of the jungle’ and many more. Together they
have also created several animation sequences and commercials.

5. This image straight away suggests that it is a
animated film genre. Also The contrast of
colour between the pink and black shows
that this film is aimed towards children
because of the bright pink and lilac.
The pink typography is continuing the
the friendly theme/mood of the title
sequence once again due to the bright
pink in contrast to the black to show it is
more important.

6. The use of shadow is very effective as it
creates another mood which is mystery and
this is helped to be created by the use off
sound. The music is a slow pace repeative
sound to create meaning to the audience like
there is a mystery that needs to be solved
therefore a enigma has been created. Once
again the colour contrast between the grey
and yellow creates a friendly ambiance.
Here shows how the smashed title has been
over exaggerated therefore once again
suggesting children are the target audience as
slapstick comedy is mostly used, this has
created another genre in the film of comedy
therefore the genre has become a hybrid.
Effect after
breaking title –
Slapstick comedy.

7. Position within the frame is Bring, continuing the colour
central therefore showing the scheme of the pink panther.
importance of the editor. Also representing the film
name.
Formal writing –
representing detectives
Detective kept within
as they analyse text for
the frame to show
evidence.
how he is related to
the text format.

8. After working for Friz Freleng by writing some scripts for the original
pink panther short films, Kurtz was chosen to create another title
sequence in 2006 of the original 1963 version of ‘The pink panther.’
When the Pink Panther producers ran into trouble they decided
to bring in three companies. As Bob Kurtz was known for his
comedic film title skills he was chosen for the job. When Bob was
brought in a title sequence had already been created but with the
approval of the director but not all the other producers, the team
began to panic and set up a competition in which the talented
Kurtz won.
When Kurt went through the character creation stage he didn’t
want to lose the pink panther style and flavour so Kurtz
decided to edit the Pink panther with better animation effects
rather than changing the appearance and loosing the
reputation that the outstanding original Friz Freleng and
Richard Williams produced.