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Elliot Cowan

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Birthplace:
Melbourne, Australia

Biography from TheMovieDB

Elliot Cowan was born in Melbourne, Australia then moved to the wilds of Tasmania where he directed thousands of television commercials for regional television. In 2006 he left for London where he mostly worked with UIi Meyer animation. While in London he began animating the award winning Boxhead and Roundhead shorts. Now he lives in New York with all kinds of grown up stuff like a wife and child and a green card. He teaches at The Pratt Institute, Mercy College, The University of the Arts and anywhere else that welcomes grumpy animation professors. The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead is his first feature and he did almost all of it himself in between teaching, freelance animation gigs and his family. It was really, really hard to do but he think's that the only way we can move away from the animation hive mind is to make more smaller animated features like this.

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Animation:
2024  Homework

Director:
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: At Sea
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: In The Dark
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: On the Run
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: Safari
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: The Infernal Machine
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: The Power Of Flight
2008  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: Brothers in Arms
2009  The Thing in the Distance
2014  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead
2024  Homework

Producer:
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: At Sea
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: In The Dark
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: On the Run
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: Safari
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: The Infernal Machine
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: The Power Of Flight
2008  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: Brothers in Arms
2009  The Thing in the Distance
2014  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead
2024  Homework

Writer:
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: At Sea
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: In The Dark
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: On the Run
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: Safari
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: The Infernal Machine
2007  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: The Power Of Flight
2008  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead: Brothers in Arms
2009  The Thing in the Distance
2014  The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead
2024  Homework

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