Ben Bocquelet

Benjamin Bocquelet is a French-British animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for being the creator of the Cartoon Network animated series The Amazing World of Gumball. He was also the director of a short film called The Hell's Kitchen in 2003. When Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe was created in 2007, Bocquelet was hired in order to help people pitch their projects to Cartoon Network after the dismissal of Nickelodeon and Jetix subdivisions of Europe. However, when the studio decided to have its employees all pitch their own ideas, he decided to take some of the rejected characters he had created for commercials and put them all in one series, with a school setting. Daniel Lennard and Khaki Jones and Brain Miller, the Vice President of Original Series and Development at Turner Broadcasting Systems, liked the idea and the series was ultimately greenlit.