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38 KEYFRAME this page (top to bottom): Iwao Takamoto, Animation Producer and Gary Johnson, North America Operations of Hanna Barbera Enterprises go over design concept of Scooby-Doo tennis shoe (1976). Original Scooby-Doo, Where are you? sketch by Iwao Takamoto. Creative team Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone and Eric Semones worked together on several DTV Scooby- Doo films. working for my idols. Bill and Joe. Jiminy Christmas, you want to pay me to come in here and do this. I spent 50 years living my dream. Who can say that?" As for what makes Scooby-Doo still appealing after all these years, Crossley says, "That voice. It's fun for kids to talk like Scooby-Doo." Walker adds, "They just love that damn dog!" Croing Cultural Boarders Scooby-Doo was an integral part of storyboard artist Aluir Amancio's childhood in Brazil. "I would sit every day in front of the TV, and I would try to draw my favorite characters. I drew Scooby-Doo plus all the others. That's how I became familiar with the Hanna-Barbera style." At 10, Amancio was approached by the owner of a cartoon studio. "He told me, 'We can't hire you right now because you're too young. But what if you show up in the studio and start learning with professionals as a trainee. That's what I did. I remember one day I showed him my Hanna-Barbera drawings. He laughed and said, 'You know Aluir, you draw Hanna-Barbera characters better than you draw mine." Amancio's passion turned into a profession, and in 1998, when he was working in Brazil for Warner Bros. on Batman Beyond, he was brought to California. "My first assignment for Scooby-Doo came right in the middle of my move," he says. "I did my F E AT U R E