Alan Smart
Template:Person Alan Edward Smart (born October 10, 1963) 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.
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 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 three episode, "Flaming Moe's"). He also did animation for the Nickelodeon cartoons CatDog, Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life and Ren and Stimpy. He has also done animation on four animated films: The Little Mermaid, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Oliver & Company and The Chipmunk Adventure. Alan Smart also worked on the pilot episode of Family Dog and the first season of Rugrats.
As of July 2013, he is the Supervising Animation Director at Paramount Pictures.
He has been the animation/supervising director for many episodes in the series. He also appeared in "Life of Crime" as the "Buns and thighs" man.
External links
- Alan Smart at LinkedIn
- Alan Smart on Wikipedia