Victor Cook is an American

United States

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 television director

Television director

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, writer, and producer

Television producer

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. Cook is perhaps best known for producing and developing for television the animated television series The Spectacular Spider-Man along with Greg Weisman

Greg Weisman

Greg Weisman is an American comic book and animation writer and producer, best known as the creator of Gargoyles and as the Supervising Producer of The Spectacular Spider-Man. Weisman is currently a producer on the Young Justice animated series...

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Victor Cook is Director and Supervising Producer of Ben 10 Destroy All Aliens, a CGI made for TV movie scheduled for a late 2012 broadcast.

Cook also is a Director on Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated, currently airing on Cartoon Network. Cook's past animated projects include: Atlantis: Milo's Return

Atlantis: Milo's Return

Atlantis: Milo's Return, released in 2003, is Disney's twentieth animated direct-to-video sequel. It is a sequel to the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire....

, The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan is an animated television series created by The Walt Disney Company in 2001, based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs....

, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction/adventure/comedy series produced by Walt Disney Television. The character is from the planet Zurtron. The series originally aired on UPN and ABC from October 2000 to January 2001 as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning...

, Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck

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, and Hellboy: Blood and Iron.

Cook was called by Sony Entertainment alongside Greg Weisman to help develop a DVD

DVD

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 project about Spider-Man. Both of them wanted to use a style from the early comic book publications of the character that showed him younger, which Cook had never seen done before in any adaption. The idea was reformatted to an animated television series, but they still kept a similar chronicle style where, as Cook describes, "each episode stands alone as its own story, but like the comic book itself it’s a saga. Then each three episodes is a story and those three episodes are what would be on the DVD releases." The original title for the series was The Amazing Spider-Man, based on the comic series of the same name

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. Being the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously until it was...

, but by mid-2007 the name was changed to The Spectacular Spider-Man, as well a Spider-Man comic series

The Spectacular Spider-Man

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Both Weisman and Cook wanted to use the style of Sam Raimi

Sam Raimi

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, director of the Spider-Man films, as it had "set the bar" for the fluid movement for Spider-Man. As they were on a specific budget, they wanted to allow the animation to "move" more than anything, giving it simple and stylistic designs. He also looked back on Blood and Iron, which had a "fresh, young, look to it" that appealed to him visually. Cook wanted to make an "iconic" Spider-Man for both new and older generations and "really wanted this to be a two dimensional Spider-man that moved like we’ve never really seen him move in animation before." The Spectacular Spider-Man became very successful in its first season on Kids WB! and entered its second season in America in 2009 on Disney XD

Disney XD

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With The Spectacular Spider-Man cancelled, both Cook and Weisman are currently working at Warner Brothers Animation. Cook On "Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated" , Weisman on Young Justice

Young Justice (TV series)

Young Justice is an American animated television series created by Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti for Cartoon Network. Despite its title, it is not an adaptation of Todd Dezago and Todd Nauck's Young Justice comic series, but rather an adaptation of the entire DC Universe with a focus on young...

for the CN

Cartoon Network

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 network. According to Weisman, the show's version of the character Artemis was partially based on Victor's daughter Hanah, who like the character is half-Asian and half-white.