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Jul 29, 2023 · The Thumbs! series might only seem like a joke made up by some random filmmaker in an odd corner of YouTube, but they actually came from Steve Oedekerk, a man who has worked in Hollywood for...
Thumbs! is a collective term for the O Entertainment short films created by Steve Oedekerk using "Thumbation" technology, a process which combines live-action thumbs and superimposition of the voice actors' faces. The first short, Thumb Wars, was created as a television special and spawned the rest of the series.
Sep 5, 2015 · After the six installments of the Thumb series were released to a few golf claps, Oedekerk promised new movies were on the way: Thumbatrix and WTW: World Thumb Wrestling. They were both rumored...
Oedekerk also gained popularity with his series of "Thumbmation" shorts: Thumb Wars, Bat Thumb, The Godthumb, Frankenthumb, The Blair Thumb and Thumbtanic. Following the failure of Planet Sheen and its subsequent cancellation in 2013, the studio was shut down along with O Entertainment.
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Oedekerk was raised in Huntington Beach, California, by his motherRena Borlandeli and father Martin Oedekerk. He attended Mater DeiHigh School in Santa Ana, California and Golden West College inHuntington Beach. He is of Dutch Frisian, Irish, Hungarian andItalian (Lombard) descent. His mother is an emigrant from Magnago,Italy. His paternal grandfat...
Throughout his career, Oedekerk has appeared in and createdseveral television specials for NBC, ABC, and UPN. He alsocontributed his writing talents to FOX during the late 1980s andthrough the early 1990s. It was during this time that Oedekerkbefriended fellow comic/actor Jim Carrey while working on thetelevision series In Living Colorduring its 19...
O Entertainment is a production company founded by SteveOedekerk in 1990. O Entertainment's productions include theThumbmation series (Thumb Wars, Bat Thumb, Thumbtanic,etc.), Santa vs. the Snowman 3D, Jimmy Neutron: The BoyGenius, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Backat the Barnyard, Planet Sheen, and the movie The SuperMouse. The anim...
Omation Animation Studio (commonly known as Omation)is an animation studio founded by the same founder who founded OEntertainment, Steve Oedekerk. In 2002, he founded the animationdivision of O Entertainment, Omation Animation Studio (betterknown as Omation), whose first animation project was the feature filmBarnyard (which Oedekerk wrote, directed...
Oedekerk also gained popularity with his series of "Thumbmation" shorts: Thumb Wars, Bat Thumb, The Godthumb, Frankenthumb, The Blair Thumb and Thumbtanic. Following the failure of Planet Sheen and its subsequent cancellation in 2013, the studio was shut down along with O Entertainment.
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The focus is on the fan base and ALL will be revealed. O Entertainment short films created by Steve Oedekerk using "Thumbation" technology, a process which combines live-action thumbs and superimposition of the voice actors' faces.
