Greg Franklin

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Greg Franklin
OccupationAnimation director / Co-founder of Six Point Harness
Known for The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! , Prison Pit
Website http://www.6pointmedia.com/directors/greg-franklin/

Greg Franklin is an American cartoonist and animation director. He is the co-founder of Six Point Harness [1] (6PH), a Los Angeles-based animation studio that develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, music videos and web-based content.

Greg has presided over several dozen hours of all manner of animated entertainment and is best known for directing The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! [2] for Comedy Central, the animated sequences for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey , and episodes of MTV's Good Vibes . He has also helmed many other animated projects and live-action/animation hybrids like Where My Dogs At? , animated segments of Sony Pictures' Black Dynamite , FOX's Fringe , NBC's Medium and Drop Dead Diva , TV commercials for MetLife, KIA and Taco Bell, as well as a series of acclaimed animated shorts [3] for comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K., [4] Wyatt Cenac, [5] Kyle Kinane [6] and many others. [7]

His latest projects for 6PH include Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on FOX, the Nickelodeon short Bear Wrestler , [8] and directing animation on a series of 2-D shorts based on Sony Pictures' Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 . [9] Most recently Franklin directed the animated version of the fan-favorite and cult classic graphic novel Prison Pit , written by Johnny Ryan and published by Fantagraphics. [10] The uncensored, ultra-violent series is well received among comic book insiders and fans alike, acclaimed for its creative allegiance to the original black and white comic book. [11] [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Greg Franklin". 6 Point Media. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (2010)". IMDb. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "6PH does animated short in Jerry Seinfeld/Crackle series". Bubbleblabber.com. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Louis CK "Comedians in Cars" - 6 Point Media". 6 Point Media. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Franklin Goes Medieval On Wyatt Cenac - Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links". Coldhardflash.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Franklin Produces Animated Bunnies For Kyle Kinane - Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links". Coldhardflash.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "6PH Fuels Seinfeld and Louis C.K. Animation - Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links". Coldhardflash.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Exclusive: Nickelodeon Announces 2014 Animated Shorts Program". Cartoon Brew. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "Dave Feiss Directs "Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs 2" Hand-Drawn Short "Earl Scouts"". Cartoon Brew. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "Learn the inside story about the new cartoon, "Prison Pit," featuring James Adomian, Kyle Kinane, and Blake Anderson". The Laugh Button. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "6 Point Harness Co-Founder Greg Franklin Talks Animating Prison Pit". Comicbook.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  12. ↑ "AICN COMICS REVIEWS: PRISON PIT BOOK ONE The Movie! MILES MORALES: THE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN!". Aint It Cool News. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.


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