Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone

Brandt (left) and Cervone (right).

Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone are a writer, creator, director, screenwriter and producer duo at Warner Bros. Animation. Spike Brandt is best known for being the current voice actor of The Elefish Chef from Collin the Speedy Boy and voicing Spike Bulldog in some Tom and Jerry direct-to-video films while Brandt served as the animation director in Space Jam and will reprise that role in the upcoming sequel

Biography

Brandt was born on December 24, 1961 as Christopher John Brandt in Milwaukee, Winscoin while Cervone was born on November 15, 1966 as Antony Joseph Cervone in Milwaukee, Illinois. Brandt got his start in animation at StarToons, a prominent animation studio located in Chicago. Its founder, animator John McClenahan, had worked previously for studios among the likes of Hanna Barbera. McClenahan hired Brandt because the studio needed some help animating episodes of "Tiny Toons" for Warner Bros. Brandt stayed for three years at StarToons, where he also worked on Warner Bros. shows like "Tazmania" and "Animaniacs." It was during their shared tenure at StarToons that Spike Brandt met fellow animator Tony Cervone. Together, they would embark on a considerably long-lasting professional partnership. The Brandt-Cervone formula has proven to consist of revamping classic cartoon characters and series for contemporary audiences without compromising their original appeal. For example, together they wrote, directed, and produced the Cartoon Network animated series "Duck Dodgers" (a re-imagining of a classic Daffy Duck segment) which aired from 2003 to 2005. Likewise, in 2011, they developed and produced "The Looney Tunes Show" (based on the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series produced by Warner Bros.). Other characters to receive the Brandt-Cervone treatment are Scooby-Doo (the 2010 straight-to-video "Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo") and Tom and Jerry (the series "Tom and Jerry Tales," which aired on The CW from 2006 to 2008).

Projects

• Various Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Collin the Speedy Boy and Hanna-Barbera projects
• The Adventures of Mega Man and Pac-Man - Executive producers, directors (Mega Man and Pac-Man's Funny Follies segments) and animators
• Tom and Jerry (2013 film) - Spike Bulldog (Brandt only)
• The Doggies - Creators, directors (not all episodes) and writers (some episodes)
• Hey Alley Cat! - Creators, writers, storyboard artists and executive producers
• The Chronicles of Collin the Speedy Boy - Writers, storyboard artists, voices (Brandt voiced  The Elefish Chef, a chef who works for the Elefish King while Cervone voiced PizzaFinger, noises for the Snnizerkers and various dinosaurs) and directors (one or two episodes)
• The Scooby-Doo Mysteries - Creators, directors and writers
• Yogi's Mystery Adventures - Co-creators, directors and writers
• The New Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog - Co-developers, directors, writers and storyboard artists
• My Little Ponies - Co-developers, directors, writers and storyboard artists
• Littlest Pet Shop - Creators, directors, writers and storyboard artists
• Animal Life - Producers, Directors (some episodes) and writers (some episodes)