Joe Brumm
Joseph Brumm is an Australian animator, director and writer. After working on multiple British animated children's shows, he created the Peabody Award-winning Australian animated television series Bluey.
Early life
Brumm was born in Winton in Central West Queensland, the second of three boys. His father worked for the Department of Primary Industries, while his mother was a librarian.After moving to Cairns when he was five years old, his family finally settled in the state's capital city of Brisbane when he was aged 12, where he began attending high school. He graduated from Marist College Ashgrove in 1995.
After finishing high school, he studied animation at Griffith Film School at Griffith University and graduated in 1998 with a Bachelor of Animation degree.
On December 17, 2025, Joeseph Brumm was awarded an honorary doctorate from Griffith University.
Career
After graduating from university, Brumm relocated to London where he obtained work as an animator on several British series, such as Charlie and Lola, Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom and Tinga Tinga Tales.Brumm returned to Brisbane in 2009. He established a small animation studio called Studio Joho in 2011 with Mark Paterson, with the intent of making an Australian version of Peppa Pig; he swapped the pig characters for dogs and changed the personality of the father. The show would be titled Bluey. Brumm conceived of the show while he was working on Charlie and Lola alongside Paterson, who would later animate Bluey
Other work
In 2000, Brumm created an animated short called Causes, and he directed a 2015 short called The Meek.Awards
In October 2021, Brumm was named as Griffith University's Outstanding Alumnus.In June 2023, he was named as a Queensland Great.