Alan Smart
{{Short description|Animator}}
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Alan Smart (born October 10, 1963) is a retired 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").{{Cite book|title=Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture|url=https://archive.org/details/leavingspringfie00albe|url-access=registration|publisher=Wayne State University Press|year=2004|editor-last=Alberti|editor-first=John|location=Detroit, Michigan|pages=[https://archive.org/details/leavingspringfie00albe/page/313 313]|isbn=9780814328491 }}{{Cite book|last=Umlan|first=Samuel J.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907272003|title=The Tim Burton encyclopedia|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2015|isbn=978-0-8108-9200-2|location=Lanham|pages=107|oclc=907272003}}
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|date=May 2020}}
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|date=May 2020}}
Filmography
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Notes |
|---|
| 2021
| animation director (1 episode) |
| 2013
| supervising timing director (10 episodes) |
| 2005
| sheet timer (1 episode) |
| 2002–03
| animation director (13 episodes) |
| 1999–2021
| animation director (148 episodes) |
| rowspan="2"|1998–99
| sheet timer (25 episodes) |
| CatDog
| sheet timer (1 episode) |
| rowspan="3"|1997
| animation director (2 episodes) |
| Nightmare Ned
| timing director (3 episodes) |
| Recess
| animation director (2 episodes) |
| 1996–97
| animation director (3 episodes) |
| 1995
| animation timer (1 episode) |
| rowspan="2"|1994–1997
| Duckman | animation timer (15 episodes) |
| Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
| sheet timer (37 episodes) |
| rowspan="2"|1994–95
| timing director (4 episodes) |
| The Critic
| animation timing (1 episode) |
| 1993–96
| animation director (23 episodes) |
| 1991–98
| Rugrats | animation director (44 episodes) |
| 1990–2003
| layout artist (4 episodes) |
| 1990
| sheet timer (1 episode) |
| 1987
| principal assist animator (1 episode) |
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" | |
| Year
! Title ! Notes | |
|---|---|
| 1987
| assistant animator | |
| rowspan=2 |1988 | Oliver & Company
| breakdown and in between artist |
| Technological Threat
| character animator | |
| 1989
| assistant animator | |
| 1990
| assistant animator | |
| 1993
| Recycle Rex | timing | |
| 1995
| Hate | timing director | |
| 2003
| Stan | |
| 2004
| The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | supervising animation director | |
| 2007
| SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis | supervising director | |
| rowspan=2 | 2009 | Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
| Himself |
| SpongeBob's Truth or Square
| animation director | |
| 2015
| The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | supervising animation director | |
| rowspan=2 | 2019
| SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout | animation director | |
| Badge of Honor
| Juror |
References
External links
- {{IMDb name|0806640}}
- [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-smart-1057a16/ Alan Smart] on LinkedIn
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Category:American television directors
Category:American animated film directors
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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