Bruce Walter Timm (born on February 8 1961) is an American character designer, animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, and is known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, the DC animated universe.

Said that when doing the "Superman" (1996) series from 1996, he and the other artists and writers felt compelled to do as many larger than life images and stories as possible, in stark contrast to the "Batman" (1992) series from 1992, in which they felt obligated to try to keep the stories fairly realistic and believable.

Praised Kevin Conroy (I), who has been providing the voice of "Batman/Bruce Wayne" since "Batman" (1992), as being a driving factor in the success of the original series.

Said that "Superman" (1996) was originally supposed to have a unique opening sequence similar to the one from "Batman" (1992), but the animation team ran out of time to finish it before having to put the show on the air, so a montage of Superman performing heroic acts was put together from clips from the series episodes. Part of the abandoned opening sequence can be seen in the montage, when Superman is seen flying over Metropolis at night.