Bruce Walter Timm (born February 5, 1961) is an American artist, animator, writer, producer, and director.

Following the conclusion of the DCAU, Timm went on to produce several DC animated films under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line, such as Wonder Woman (2009), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010), Justice League Doom (2012), Superman vs The Elite (2012), The Dark Knight Returns (2013) and Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015).

After dropping out, he began working full-time at Kmart until he saw a Filmation ad inviting new artists to take a layout test.

[5] Timm's early career in animation started at Filmation, working on the layout of Blackstar, Flash Gordon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, its spin-off She-Ra: Princess of Power, and The Lone Ranger.

In 1987, he was hired by John Kricfalusi to do layouts for Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which Timm called "artistically and creatively the most fulfilling job that I'd had in the animation business".

Timm created virtually all the original character designs for Batman: The Animated Series himself, with the exceptions of Mr.

[15] He shared character designer duties on Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League with James Tucker.

[23] Timm worked with Man of Steel director Zack Snyder in creating a 75th anniversary short of Superman in 2013.

[30] Outside of his work in animation, Timm's first ambition was to become a comic-book artist and has thus produced several one-shots and miniseries, mostly for DC Comics.

[31] His earliest comic book work was drawing He-Man and other Masters of the Universe mini-comics that would be packaged with Mattel toys in the 1980s.

[34][35] Timm won the same Eisner prize the next year as well, for Batman Adventures Holiday Special, (a one-shot with several Christmas-themed stories) with Dini, Ronnie del Carmen, and others.

In 2004, Timm and Dini (assisted by Shane Glines as inker) released a three-issue Harley and Ivy miniseries, which was in the works for years.

[41] Timm provided the art work for a short two-page Harley Quinn origin story for Dini's Countdown in 2008.

[42] One month later, O'Brien aired a clip on his show in which the character, named "The Flaming C", appears in Young Justice.

[5] Timm lists his artistic influences as Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Jim Steranko, John Buscema, Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, Dan DeCarlo, and Alex Toth.