Benjamin "Ben" Bocquelet (born 1983) is a French-born English animator, writer, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network series The Amazing World of Gumball

The Amazing World of Gumball

The Amazing World of Gumball is a British/American animated television series created by Ben Bocquelet. It first aired on May 2, 2011 in the United Kingdom as a sneak preview and officially premiered on September 5, 2011. It premiered a week later on May 9, 2011 in the United States on Cartoon...

. He also wrote a short film called The Hell's Kitchen in 2003. When Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe

Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe

Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe is a British animation studio based in London. It was founded in early 2007. It is owned by Turner Broadcasting System Europe...

 was created in 2007, Ben Bocquelet was hired in order to help people pitch their projects to the network

Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

. 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, the Vice President of Original Series and Development at Turner Broadcasting UK, liked the idea and the series was ultimately greenlit.