Ryan Khatam

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Ryan Khatam (born 1982) is an American animator and storyboard artist. He has worked on TV shows including Metalocalypse and MTV's Good Vibes, and served as a storyboard artist for two Season 1 episodes of Breadwinners. He animated the Gecko & Sticky segment of Shredderman Rules and Baton (バトン), directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. Khatam also contributed as an animator to Black Panther and TripTank. In 2013 he worked on the Kickstarter-funded Dick Figures: The Movie, and in November 2014 he launched a Kickstarter for Johnny Rocketfingers 3. He began animating at age 14, with an early stick-figure animation. He studied at Rancho Bernardo High School, Palomar College, the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, and The Animation Academy. His first freelance job was animating deaths for Gorilla 2: The Return, the sequel to Gorillas. He was later contacted by Conspiracy Games to create a sequel to Johnny Rocketfingers. As of November 2014, Johnny Rocketfingers 2 had been viewed more than 4.5 million times.