Alan Smart

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Template:Person Alan Edward Smart (born October 10, 1963, age Template:Age) is a SpongeBob SquarePants crew member. He is known for being an animation director, as well as the show's supervising director. He often collaborates with Tom Yasumi, Andrew Overtoom,and Michelle Bryan.

Biography

Smart was born on October 10, 1963, in Los Angeles. He was educated at Brandis Art Institute (1979–1981) and California Institute of the Arts (1982–1986).

He is best is known for his work on SpongeBob SquarePants and as an assistant director and layout artist with The Simpsons (he also received credit as a director in the season 3 episode "Flaming Moe's"). He also did animation for the Nickelodeon cartoons Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, CatDog, and Sanjay and Craig. He has also worked on seven animated films: The Chipmunk Adventure, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, Box-Office Bunny, Gumby: The Movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. Smart also worked on the pilot episode of Family Dog and was an animation director on 101 Dalmatians: The Series (according to the credits). He has been working on "SpongeBob SquarePants" since it began in 1999.

As of July 2013, he is the Supervising Animation Director at Paramount Pictures.

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He has been the animation/supervising director for many episodes in the series. He also appears in "Life of Crime" as the bodybuilder. Alan Smart voiced Incidental EHS5 in "Enchanted Tiki Dreams."

External links

• Alan Smart at LinkedIn