Corny Cole III is an animation filmmaker, graphic artist and painter who has worked in the animation industry for the past forty years. He was a fine arts major at Chouinard Art Institute. Cole has been preparing four works in progress: Beach Series, Animation Satires, The History of Brutality, and paintings and roll-outs of his Sunday Figure Workshop. Cole designed an Oscar-winning short subject in animation, has won the Cleo, and designed a film that won the Golden Eagle Award for non-theatrical film. In 1994, he did the opening sequence for the Emmy-winning Animation Prime Time special, Roman City. During the 1970s, Cole had his own animation company, Corny Films, in Santa Monica.