David Lovelace

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David Lovelace

David Lovelace
Born 9 January 1970
Charlotte, North Carolina
Occupation Cartoonist,
Voice actor
Known for Retarded Animal Babies
Virus Alert
Website
www.umop.com

David Lovelace is an animator known for creating the popular Flash cartoon, Retarded Animal Babies, which has appeared as part of the G4 animated nightly block, Midnight Spank, as well as Newgrounds and Lovelace's own Retarded Animal Babies DVD boxsets.

[1] A comic strip he drew, called The Packrat, about a rodent who collects synthesizers, ran in Keyboard Magazine in 2005-2006. [1]

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[edit] Early life

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lovelace is a self-taught cartoonist. He presently lives in Connecticut.

[edit] Works

Lovelace's Flash animations are featured on the Flash animation website Newgrounds. Retarded Animal Babies is one of the top draws at Newgrounds, with more than 3 million hits to date. It is notorious for foul language and adult situations. Other flash cartoons produced by Lovelace include Sci-Fi Guys and Jot and Jab.

Lovelace has produced music videos for several artists, most notably Weird Al Yankovic. The video for Yankovic's song "Virus Alert" was created by Lovelace, for which he received a gold record.[2][3]

Other websites using his animations include Fark (including a five-part cartoon about "Farkman", a dim-witted superhero who thinks in Fark article tags)[2] and Camp Chaos.

He also produced artwork and animation for advertising and CD-ROM games, for clients including Paramount Pictures, Wonka Candies, Quest For Camelot by Warner Bros., Animaniacs, Fisher Price, National Lampoon, and the educational JumpStart series. His promotional comic strips for Hartford, CT rock station 106.9 WCCC run on an approximate monthly schedule in local CT publications.

[edit] Trivia

Lovelace is also a keyboard player. He presently plays synthesizers in a Connecticut-area band which specializes in covers of 1980s popular songs. He is also notorious in the music industry for creating the offensive cartoons. Decorating a few products by Metasonix, including their guitar amplifier which designs caused a minor sensation at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Meet the Creator of Retarded Animal Babies
  2. ^ Yankovic Heads 'Straight Outta Lynwood'
  3. ^ Flash Animation Gets Weird

unknown (2005-12-25). Meet the Creator of Retarded Animal Babies. g4tv.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.

Bulger, Adam. "Fully Animated: Middletown Internet Animator David Lovelace Teams Up With Weird Al Yankovic", Hartford Advocate (Hartford, CT), 2006-09-22. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 

Vrabel, Jeff (2006-08-04). Yankovic Heads 'Straight Outta Lynwood'. billboard.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.

Simpson, Aaron (2006-10-13). Flash Animation Gets Weird. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.


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