Kenn Navarro
Kenn Navarro : Role - Cuddles
Birth Place : Manila, Philippines
Gender : Male
Recent Role : Cuddles/Lifty/Shifty on Happy Tree Friends
Kenn Navarro was born in Manila, Philippines. He spent his childhood at the same place. He has done a B.A in Industrial Design, emphasizing on animation, from San Francisco State University.
In California, he worked on minor animation projects and a few independent music videos, in the 62 Studios in Larkspur. He started working at Mondo Mini Shows, when it was expanding into a full-fledged studio, where online content was created and distributed. He was later given a chance to work as an animator, for the Mondo Media’s internet shows, such as ‘The God & Devil Show’, ‘Thugs on Film’ and ‘Like, News’. Before this, he had worked for many video games for Mondo Media.
He created an internet carton show ‘Happy Tree Friends’, along with his friends Rhode Montijo and Aubrey Ankrum. The show began to air on the website, Pop.com, in 2000. The show became so much popular that it crossed the limits of everyone’s expectations. MTV International picked up the show, to broadcast its webisodes in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Afterwards, a cable channel - G4 choose to air 13 TV Episodes of the series. Kenn has voiced for “Cuddles“, and a few other characters, in the series.
He grabbed the Audience Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2003 for the Best Animated Short Film (Internet) for “Happy Tree Friends, Volume 2: Second Serving” and in 2007 for the Best Television Series for Adults and the Best Animated Series for Adults for ‘Happy Tree Friends’. He also won the OIAF Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2007 for the Best Television Series for Adults for ‘Happy Tree friends‘. In 2005, he won the Grand Prize for the Best Animated Short Film (Internet) for ‘Happy Tree Friends, Volume 3: Third Strike‘ and the OIAF Award for the Best Short Made for the Internet for ‘Happy Tree Friends, Volume 3: Third Strike’.
Role in Happy Tree Friends
Kenn Navarro has done the voice-over for “Cuddles” and other characters in ‘Happy Tree Friends’ tv show. “Cuddles” is a male rabbit, and one of the four primary characters of the series. He is yellow in color and his cheeks are pink. He is mischievous and thinks only about himself, but is also known to be friendly and caring. He is very close to “Giggles”.
