| David Lovelace | |
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David Lovelace |
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| Born | 9 January 1970 Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Occupation | Cartoonist, Voice actor |
| Known for | Retarded Animal Babies Virus Alert |
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| www.umop.com | |
David Lovelace (born January 9, 1970) 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 box sets.
[1] A comic strip he drew, called The Packrat, about a rodent who collects synthesizers, ran in Keyboard Magazine in 2005-2006 [1] and from August, 2010 to present.
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Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lovelace is a self-taught cartoonist. He presently lives in Connecticut.
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] Five characters from Retarded Animal Babies make cameo appearances in the video.
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.
unknown (2005-12-25). "Meet the Creator of Retarded Animal Babies". g4tv.com. http://www.g4tv.com/latenightpeepshow/features/53189/Meet_the_Creator_of_Retarded_Animal_Babies.html. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
Bulger, Adam (2006-09-22). "Fully Animated: Middletown Internet Animator David Lovelace Teams Up With Weird Al Yankovic". Hartford Advocate (Hartford, CT).
Vrabel, Jeff (2006-08-04). "Yankovic Heads 'Straight Outta Lynwood'". billboard.com. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002950558. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
Simpson, Aaron (2006-10-13). "Flash Animation Gets Weird". http://coldhardflash.com/2006/10/flash-animation-gets-weird.html. Retrieved 2008-02-11.