BUTCH HARTMAN

'Butch Hartman' (Born January 10 1965, Highland Park, Michigan) is an American animator, creator of ''The Fairly Odd Parents'', ''Crimson Chin'', ''Crash Nebula'', and ''Danny Phantom''.

Contents

Childhood

Early career

''The Fairly OddParents'' and ''Danny Phantom''

''Doogal''

Other and future works

Trivia

FOP looks of other Nicktoons and Shows

External links

Childhood

'Elmer Earl Hartman IV' was born in Highland Park, Michigan to Elmer Earl Hartman III and Carol Davis. He received the nickname "Butch" as a youth and continues to use the name professionally as an adult. Hartman spent his childhood in Roseville, Michigan and his teen years in New Baltimore, Michigan.
He graduated from Anchor Bay High School in New Baltimore in 1983. He subsequently attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. He also spent his childhood for 1 year in New Zealand because his dad got a new job there.

Early career

Hartman entered the animation industry 1986, first working on the Don Bluth film, ''An American Tail'' as an in-between animator; soon this was followed by a cartoon series ''My Little Pony'' and then ''It's Punky Brewster''.
In 1990, he went to DiC Entertainment, where he worked on ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'', '' and ''Gadget Boy''. Later, he became a writer, television director and storyboard artist for several Cartoon Network shows, including ''Dexter's Laboratory'', ''Cow and Chicken'', and ''Johnny Bravo'' and an Oh yeah! cartoon,Terry and Chris.
He also worked on the Disney movie Pocahontas (1995 movie) as a video reference.
He also worked on Seth MacFarlane's animated short "Zoomates" and "Dan danger" with Steve Marmel.

''The Fairly OddParents'' and ''Danny Phantom''

His biggest success came in 1997, when he created ''The Fairly OddParents''. It was originally a series of made for TV shorts on the anthology show, ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''. In 2001, Nickelodeon picked it up as a full series. ''The Fairly OddParents'' became a huge hit, second only in the ratings to ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. Due to the success of "OddParents", Hartman created another cartoon for Nickelodeon, ''Danny Phantom'', in 2004. ''Danny Phantom'' was also considered a popular superhero/comedy show, albeit with more mature and complex elements than the ''Fairly OddParents''. ''The Fairly OddParents'' ceased production in 2006, but he announced in his website on February 2, 2007 that 20 more episodes will be produced. ''Danny Phantom'' ceased production around 2007. On July 11, 2007 The first new episode of Danny Phantom was aired on Nickelodeon. Hartman is making a new flim and TV series called "Mr. Magic".

''Doogal''

He served as executive producer and screenwriter of ''Doogal'', the Americanized dub of the Franco-British animated film ''The Magic Roundabout''. The film was dubbed by The Weinstein Company, and was released on February 24, 2006. However, ''Doogal'' was poorly received by critics, and did poorly in the box-office, grossing only $7 million dollars and getting 5% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Other and future works

Hartman is currently working on four new projects for Nickelodeon: one, a live-action series and the other three, animated. It has also been stated that 20 more episodes of ''The Fairly OddParents'' are currently under production and if possible, he may decide to go ahead and work on a theatrical feature film ''The Fairly OddParents Movie'', but with him selling "The Fairly OddParents".
His other TV work include voicing various characters on the animated series ''Family Guy'', and playing the character Sean Masters on the short-lived series ''Generations'' in 1991. He was also a recurring character on the popular NBC soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' (1988 - 1989; see [1]).
Hartman currently lives in Bell Canyon, California, with his wife, Julieann, and daughters, Carly and Sophia.

Trivia

★ He also has two brothers Mike and Timmy whom Timmy Turner is named after.

★ He is a huge fan of ''The Simpsons''.

★ He also appeared on "Body Language," the gameshow based on charades.

★ He has often placed his FOP visualization of himself as a fairy in places, such as "The Pointy Crown".

★ His friend Seth MacFarlane named the character of Dr. Elmer Hartman on Family Guy after Butch.

★ He and fellow animators Seth MacFarlane and Maxwell Atoms all worked on Cow and Chicken.

★ He is a huge fan of the original unaltered versions of the ''Star Wars Trilogy'', and numerous references can be found in his cartoons, including FOP and Danny Phantom.

FOP looks of other Nicktoons and Shows

On an edition of ''Nick Magazine'', Butch Hartman posted FOP looks of ''Nicktoons'' and other Nick Shows such as ''Rugrats'', ''Zoey 101'', ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''Drake and Josh'', and ''Avatar the Last Airbender''.

External links

★ Official site

★ Fairy Odd Blog

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