DAVID SILVERMAN

'David Silverman' (born on 15 March 1957 in New York City, New York) is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series ''The Simpsons'', where he would go on to be the supervising director of animation for several years, as well as animating on all of the original Simpsons ''Tracey Ullman shorts''.
Started his education at the University of Maryland, College Park for two years, focusing on art. Then he attended UCLA and majored in animation.^[1]
Early in his career with ''The Simpsons'', he was a subject on the December 26, 1990 episode (#83) of ''To Tell the Truth''.^[2]
David worked with Savage Steve Holland to create Klutter! for Fox Kids. It was produced by Fox Kids Company, Savage Studios Ltd, and Film Roman. It was part of Eek! Stravaganza in the fourth season of the 1995-96 season. It lasted a year with 8 episodes from September 9, 1995 to April 14, 1996. He was once credited as 'Pound Foolish' as the director of the episode "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular".^[3] Silverman is largely credited with creating most of the "rules" for drawing ''The Simpsons''. He appeared during the end credits of the ''Simpsons'' episode "Goo Goo Gai Pan" giving a quick method of drawing Bart, and is a frequent participant on the ''Simpsons'' DVD audio commentaries. A cartoon rendering of him can be seen in "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", where he is the animator who draws Poochie (along with renderings of other ''Simpsons'' staffers).
Silverman is also the director of the ''The Simpsons Movie'', which was released July 27, 2007. He originally left ''The Simpsons'' to direct ''The Road to El Dorado''. Some of his other film work includes ''Monsters, Inc.''.
On June 23, 2006, he appeared on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', where he played a flaming sousaphone.^[4]
Silverman has toured many college campuses, speaking about his experiences as an animator and longtime Simpsons director and producer.^[5] He describes his early experiences in the animation field, working on shows such as ''Turbo Teen'' and ''Mister T''. He goes on to say that at the point he considered leaving animation to devote his time to cartoon illustration, he took a job animating on ''The Tracey Ullman Show''. He has pointed out that he and his fellow animators Wes Archer and Bill Kopp first started animating ''The Simpsons shorts'' on March 23, 1987.
Silverman then elaborates on ''Simpsons'' production, the evolution of the show and its characters, and various show facts and trivia. He may show animatics, deleted scenes, and favorite scenes and sequences, while giving background information. He closes by hand-drawing character sketches before the audience.
Silverman plays the tuba and has performed at events like Burning Man and appeared on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''.^[6]

Contents

''The Simpsons'' episodes

References

External links

''The Simpsons'' episodes

★ "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"

★ "Bart the Genius"

★ "Bart the General"

★ "Life on the Fast Lane"

★ "Some Enchanted Evening" (replacing Kent Butterworth)

★ "Bart Gets an F"

★ "Treehouse of Horror" (The Raven segment only)

★ "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"

★ "The Way We Was"

★ "Old Money"

★ "Blood Feud"

★ "Black Widower"

★ "Homer's Triple Bypass"

★ "Krusty Gets Kancelled"

★ "Treehouse of Horror IV"

★ "Another Simpsons Clip Show"

★ "Homie the Clown"

★ "Mother Simpson"

★ "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" (as 'Pound Foolish')

★ "Treehouse of Horror XIII"

★ "Treehouse of Horror XV"

★ "Treehouse of Horror XVI"

★ "Treehouse of Horror XVII" (with Matthew C. Faughnan)

References

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6. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4393995267364283884

External links

★ David Silverman 2007 Video interview with InterviewingHollywood.com

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★ An interview with David Silverman

★ APB Speaker page info

★ The Simpsons Archive interview

★ Video interview, Treehouse Of Horror XVII