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Genndy Tartakovsky (Геннадий Тартаковский) is a Russian-American animation director and producer of Russian origin and one of the greatest minds behind Creator/CartoonNetwork.

Born in 1970 in the USSR to Jewish parents, Genndy moved abroad with his family, afraid of anti-semitism. First they went to Italy, where he picked up art from their German neighbours' daughter. Then they moved to the USA, where he eventually got into California School of Arts (because he was too late to apply for a business school). There he embraced his future career as an animator and made his first two shorts, one of which eventually became ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. While schooling, he formed a strong friendship with CraigMcCracken and Rob Renzetti (MyLifeAsATeenageRobot), which often shows in their cooperation between series.

Currently, after working on Sym-Bionic Titan for Cartoon Network, he has moved on to Sony Pictures Animation, which has [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/03/26/genndy-tartakovsky-taking-over-the-hotel-transylvania/ announced]] that he is directing ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''. After the success of ''Hotel Transylvania'', he is now directing an All-CGI Cartoon ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' feature film for Sony.

!!His notable works include:
* Storyboarding on ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs''
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''
* ''WesternAnimation/PowerpuffGirls''
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars''
* ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Cartoonstitute}} Maruined]]''
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Sym-Bionic Titan}}''
* Storyboarding the action sequences on ''Film/IronMan2''
* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania''

!!Tropes applicable to him and his works include:
* {{Animesque}}: Most of Genndy's cartoons follow this, mainly because he was inspired by Japanese animation.
* ArtEvolution: He used to be so horrible at art he couldn't draw a circle.
* AsideGlance: Many of his characters' silent reactions to something odd or stupid taking place often involve this, either directly to the audience or another character.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Genndy is either in love with this trope or owes it money. ''Sym-Bionic Titan'''s Radar entry is pretty much its recap.
* DevelopmentHell: TheMovie of SamuraiJack is in here, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dk42LkKXRw interest is needed at hand]]. It is rumored that Genndy may be directing Hotel Transylvania to help [[MoneyDearBoy fund]] the project.
* LockAndLoadMontage: Genndy's apparently a big fan of these; they can be found quite frequently in all of his cartoons.
* MsFanservice: If there's a young woman in one of his cartoons, expect her to almost always be a FetishFuelStationAttendant.
* RuleOfCool
* ThickLineAnimation: Consciously averted with ''SamuraiJack'' (it has the look, just not the ''lines''), but his previous and subsequent works have this style.
* WidgetSeries: But as ''{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}'' proved, this trope [[TropesAreNotBad has never looked so cool]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Genndy had two chances to get into directing films, none of which came to be. First being a sequel to ''TheDarkCrystal'', which ended up in DevelopmentHell. Second being a film of ''Manga/AstroBoy'', which later ended up being finished in another studio unrelated to him, and did so poorly that it closed them down.
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