Alan Smart is a retired [1] animator and an animation director best known for his work as the supervising director on SpongeBob SquarePants , which he has been involved with since the pilot, and as assistant director and layout artist on The Simpsons (he also received credit as a director in the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's"). [2] [3]
He has done animation for the Nicktoons CatDog , Hey Arnold , Rocko's Modern Life , Ren and Stimpy , and Sanjay and Craig and on five animated films: The Little Mermaid , The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie , The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Sponge Out of Water , Oliver & Company and The Chipmunk Adventure .[ citation needed ]
Alan Smart also worked on the pilot episode of Family Dog , as an animation director on Clone High and the first season of Rugrats .[ citation needed ]
Year | Title | Notes |
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2021 | The Patrick Star Show | animation director (1 episode) supervising director (3 episodes) |
2013 | Sanjay and Craig | supervising timing director (10 episodes) |
2005 | Catscratch | sheet timer (1 episode) |
2002–03 | Clone High | animation director (13 episodes) |
1999–2021 | SpongeBob SquarePants | animation director (141 episodes) supervising director (192 episodes) sheet timer (12 episodes) actor (3 episodes) special thanks (6 episodes) |
1998–99 | The Wild Thornberrys | sheet timer (25 episodes) |
CatDog | sheet timer (1 episode) animation director (11 episodes) | |
1997 | 101 Dalmatians: The Series | animation director (2 episodes) |
Nightmare Ned | timing director (3 episodes) director (2 episodes) | |
Recess | animation director (2 episodes) additional timing director (2 episodes) | |
1996–97 | Hey Arnold! | animation director (3 episodes) director (2 episodes) |
1995 | Eek! the Cat | animation timer (1 episode) |
1994–1997 | Duckman | animation timer (15 episodes) |
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | sheet timer (37 episodes) | |
1994–95 | The Ren & Stimpy Show | timing director (4 episodes) |
The Critic | animation timing (1 episode) director (3 episodes) character layout artist (1 episode) | |
1993–96 | Rocko's Modern Life | animation director (23 episodes) |
1991–98 | Rugrats | animation director (44 episodes) sheet timer (2 episodes) assistant animator (1 episode) character layout artist (1 episode) assistant director (2 episodes) |
1990–2003 | The Simpsons | layout artist (4 episodes) animation timer (1 episode) additional timer (1 episode) character layout artist (1 episode) director (1 episode) assistant director (14 episodes) sheet director (2 episodes) |
1990 | Bobby's World | sheet timer (1 episode) |
1987 | Amazing Stories | principal assist animator (1 episode) |
Year | Title | Notes |
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1987 | The Chipmunk Adventure | assistant animator (Animated musical film) |
1988 | Oliver & Company | breakdown and in between artist (Animated musical film) |
Technological Threat | character animator (Animated short film) | |
1989 | The Little Mermaid | assistant animator (Animated musical film) |
1990 | Box-Office Bunny | assistant animator (Animated short film) |
1993 | Recycle Rex | timing (Animated short film) |
1995 | Hate | timing director (Animated short film) |
2003 | My Life with Morrissey | Stan (Independent film) |
2004 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | supervising animation director (Live-action animated comedy film) |
2007 | SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis | supervising director (Television movie) |
2009 | Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants | Himself character designer (Documentary film) |
SpongeBob's Truth or Square | animation director supervising director (Television movie) | |
2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | supervising animation director (Live-action animated comedy film) |
2019 | SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout | animation director animation supervising director (Television movie) |
Badge of Honor | Juror (Short film) |
Pearl Krabs is a fictional character in the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. She is voiced by actress Lori Alan and first appeared in the season one episode "Squeaky Boots" on September 4, 1999. She was created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, who was inspired to design a whale character while supervising whale watches at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California.
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was an American animator, writer, producer, director, and marine science educator. He is known for creating the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, on which he served as the showrunner for the first three seasons of the show, and which has become the fifth-longest-running American animated series.
Derek Drymon is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian, and producer. He has worked on numerous animated cartoon productions of the 1990s and 2000s, best known for his work on Rocko's Modern Life, SpongeBob SquarePants and Adventure Time.
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