About Me
Austin Kimmell is a filmmaker, animator and cartoonist based in New England. He’s written and directed a number of award-winning independent films, such as Dracula, The Literal Moron (2022) and Put a Stick in It (2020), one of the inaugural winners of the Vanishing Angle Post Grant. His films have screened at Animation Block Party, Boston Underground, Malt Adult, Channel 101, the Oscar-qualifying Athens International Festival of Film & Video, and has been highlighted on Newgrounds, Film Shortage and The Arts Fuse.
He’s also worked for clients like MIT, The LEGO Group, The American Bystander and for Nickelodeon on SpongeBob SquarePants. Austin currently resides in Massachusetts, working as an educator and freelancer when he isn't making stupid-ass cartoons.
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CONTACT & SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter (not X, I ain't calling it X)
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INDEPENDENT FILMS
Stranger Danger (2023, 4 min)
Vanilla (2023, 1 min - for Hellavision Television's THE GUY anthology)
Dracula, the Literal Moron (2022, 2 min)
Art Museum (2022, 1 min)
Mircoloops (2021-2022, 3 min)
Put A Stick In It (2020, 5 min)
41 Seconds of A Man Sneezing (2020, 41 seconds)
Gotcha! (2018, 2 min)
Querrido (2017, 2 min)
Trapper Keeper (2017, 2 min)
Critique (2016, 1 min)
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COMMISSIONED FILMS
Mooch - Director of Animation (Directed by Jeff Ryan, 2024, 86 min)
Wellesley College “Celito Lindo” Show - Director of Animation (Produced by Shayla Zamora, 2023, 3 min)
Exciting Day - Director of Animation (Directed by Brett & Ksenia Sylvia, 2022, 12 min)
MIT - Director (Produced by Hannah Ruebeck, 2021-2022, 35 min total)
Edge of A Knife - Co-Writer / Director (Produced by Nico Rivers, 4 min)
Tribe WOD Ads - Writer / Director / Voice Actor (2021, 3 min total)
All Those Left Behind - Director of Animation (Directed by Meghan Mickela, 2021, 4 min)
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ANIMATION
Bad Omens - 2D Animation / AE Graphics (Directed by Seth Marquis & Josh Parsons, 2024)
SpongeBob SquarePants - Storyboard Artist on “Necro-Nom-Nom-Nom-I-Con” (Directed by Dave Cunningham, 2023)
Popeye: BBQ for Two Reanimated - Contributing Animator (Produced by Dirk Erik Schulz, 2022)
LEGO Batman - Motion-Graphics Animator (Directed by Josh Parsons, 2022)
Train of Death - Guest Animator (Directed by Javier Barboza, 2022)
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ILLUSTRATION & COMICS
QHS Posters / Designs (Graphic Designer, 2024 - Present)
The American Bystander / 251 - Gag Cartoonist (2023)
The Journal of Stoogeological Studies - Contributing Cartoonist (Writer / Illustrator of Humbug for Healy, 2023)
Wellesley College - Freelance Illustration (2023)
My Laundry Monster - Children’s Book Illustrator (Written by Brett & Ksenia Sylvia, 2022)
NO CINEMA - Contributing Writer / Illustrator (2022)
Bird’s Eye Comics - Contributing Cartoonist (Writer / Illustrator of Blood of An Englishman, 2021)
The Adventures of the ‘Fridgerator Family - Children’s Book Illustrator (Written by Arthur Prisco, 2019)
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VOICE ACTING
A Studio Digital (Directed by Will Heff, 2024, 1 min)
Stranger Danger (2023, 4 min)
The Return of Chrons Jones (Directed by Jack-Seber Morella, 2023, 2 min)
Dracula, the Literal Moron (2022, 2 min)
Animal Instinct (Directed by Otis Meehan, 2020, 5 min)