Heather Maxwell
Ben Jones is a storyboard artist and animation director, and is one of the episode directors on Transformers Animated. Compared to previous shows he worked on, there are more robots that turn into cars.
Jones didn't have as many Transformers toys as he wanted growing up, but he had a few. He also seems to be a fan of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bizarro">Bizarro</a>, and apparently wrote an episode of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ripping_Friends" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The_Ripping_Friends">The Ripping Friends</a>, but we'll try not to hold the latter against him. Much.
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<td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Ben Jones, in a Big Shiny Robot! interview</cite>
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Director
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- Blast from the Past
- The Thrill of the Hunt
- Sound and Fury
- Headmaster
- Nature Calls
- Megatron Rising - Part 2
- The Return of the Headmaster
- Garbage In, Garbage Out
- Rise of the Constructicons
- Autoboot Camp
- A Bridge Too Close - Part 1</div>
Trivia
- He did the pencils for the original Animated promo poster, with various other Animated staff members inking and coloring it.<a href="http://benjones.info/Site/tfposter.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://benjones.info/Site/tfposter.html" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>
- According to Derrick J. Wyatt, Jones actually has a collection of various "evil superhero" shirts beyond the Bizarro one, including one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Flash" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Reverse_Flash">Professor Zoom, the Reverse Flash</a>. Wonder if he's managed to pick up that Shattered Glass Optimus Prime shirt from BotCon 2008?
External links
- Ben Jones at the Internet Movie Database
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