Eric Fogel

Eric Fogel (born 1969) is an American director, writer, producer and voice actor who is best known as the creator of the tv series Celebrity Deathmatch. He also created the cult series The Head and Starveillance and also directed several episodes of Daria.

Early life

Eric graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1991 with a BFA in Film/TV. During his time there he created his first animated film, titled , a film which one professor cited as being "inappropriate due to its violent content." Mutilator would go on to win NYU's Award of Excellence in Animation and become a cult favorite of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. Eric continued to produce animated shorts and soon his reel came across the desk of an executive at MTV Animation.

The Head

"Main article The Head"

In 1994, at age of twenty-four, Eric created his first animated series for MTV. The Head was a bizarre show about a high-spirited alien named Roy, who survived on Earth by living inside the head of an everyman named Jim. The show, which blended sci-fi action and comedy, ran for two seasons and spawned a graphic novel for Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster.

Celebrity Deathmatch

"Main article Celebrity Deathmatch"

For his next series, Eric was determined to revive the seemingly lost art of stop-motion animation. The pitch was simple: Celebrities square off in a ring and proceed to beat the pulp out of one another…in clay. Celebrity Deathmatch premiered in 1998 during the Super Bowl Halftime and turned out to be the highest rated special in the history of MTV. The show was popular enough for Eric to be named one of the most creative people in the TV industry by Entertainment Weekly. Four seasons and nearly a hundred episodes later, Deathmatch was known over the world and remained as one of MTV's highest rated shows.

In 2006 Deathmatch was revived by MTV2 but Eric decided not to get involved with the show so he could work in his new show Starveillance.Despite this Eric is still credited as the creator and co-executive producer of the show.

tarveillance

"Main article Starveillance"

Eric recently created a new claymation series called "Starveillance" which parodies several celebrity situations through claymation animation and debuted in January 5 2007 on E! to positive reviews.Eric's production company Fogelmania Productions and Cuppa Coffe Studios produce the show.

Anton & Crapbag

Eric's latest project is a series of 2-3 minute shorts called Anton & Crapbag that started airing on MTV2 on April 2008. The series uses rod puppetry and 2D animated mouths to give life to two slackers who try various Jackass-esque stunts that inevitably end in disaster.

Trivia

*He directed Marilyn Manson's video for "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes".

*He directed every episode of CDM from 1998 to 2002. He was replaced by Jack Fletcher and Dave 'Canadian' Thomas in 2006.

*He voiced several celebrities in CDM during the first two seasons of the show.

External links

*imdb name|0283888
* [http://www.curiouspictures.com/commercials/directors_fogel.html Eric Fogel ] at curiouspictures.com
* [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=efogel25 Eric Fogel's] youtube page.
* [http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/8146 Eric Fogel's interview with animation magazine]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c658VZzNb7M&e Mutilator: Hero Of the Wasteland]