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Thursday, September 19, 2024

The Simpsons Wikipedia - Frederick Gardner (Animator)

 

 My first job in animation was on The Simpsons. I was hired when Producers of the show walked by my desk at Cal Arts in my freshman year and left me a note, offering me to test to take as Animator. The test was to turn Skinner's Mom. I passed the test, was hired as a Full Animator (not Assistant) and never finished my second year at CalArts. Here is a link to my page in The Simpsons Wikipedia. It is not 100% accurate, there are many other contributions I made to The Simpsons while I worked for 20th Century Fox and Klasky Csupo. I will try and update this information in the near future. Some of the additional Simpsons work I did was publicity art/press photos for the Main Characters, Storyboard, Prop and Background Design for some episodes, completely animated and designed my own Itchy & Scratchy cartoon (solo), "Sundae Bloody Sunday", Character Design, Animator on several Butterfinger commercials, Animator on the second version of the Main Title for The Simpsons.

Sundae Bloody Sundae (YouTube):
https://youtu.be/AzPpkEJBJhM?si=-otsj1n9wvCBIb6R




NOTE: I (and the entire crew) won my first Emmy (certificate) for Best Animated Series working on The Simpsons.

The Simpsons Wikipedia link is here:

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Frederick_J._Gardner_III