Butch Hartman

Elmer Earl Johannine Quincy "Butch" Hartman IV (born January 10, 1965) is an American animator, executive producer, animation director, storyboard artist, voice actor, occasional singer, writer, and actor. He's the creator of the animated series The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and Bunsen Is a Beast. He heads the production company Billionfold, Inc., which produces the four aforementioned programs.
Hartman 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.
==Career==
While still attending the California Institute of the Arts, Hartman received the chance to intern as an in-between animator on the Don Bluth film, An American Tail. Shortly after graduating for the California Institute of the Arts Hartman was hired as a character designer for the animated series My Little Pony. Instead, they had him working on storyboards (which he had not done before) and as quickly as he was hired, he was fired. Soon after Hartman found work with Ruby-Spears, where he worked on It's Punky Brewster and Dink, the Little Dinosaur. He was also a part of the video reference crew for the Disney movie, Pocahontas.
In the mid-1990s he was hired at Hanna-Barbera Studios and created the shorts Pfish and Chip and Gramps for the What a Cartoon! Show. Eventually he became a writer, director and storyboard artist for several of the "What a Cartoon!" shorts that got turned into series, including Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel and The Powerpuff Girls. After his contract with Hanna-Barbera finished up he went to work with former co-worker Fred Seibert on the Oh Yeah! Cartoons show.
While working at Hanna-Barbera, he became friends with future Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. Hartman later designed and directed MacFarlane's 1998 animated short "Zoomates", for Oh Yeah! Cartoons. MacFarlane also has a character on Family Guy named after him: Dr. Elmer Hartman.
His biggest success came in 1997, when he created The Fairly OddParents. (The idea came to him during the drive from Hanna-Barbara to Nickelodeon to pitch an idea to Fred Seibert.) 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 was asked to create another cartoon for Nickelodeon, (Hartman says the President of Nickelodeon asked him if he had an idea, and before he could say the title he was given a contract) which would later become Danny Phantom. To produce that show, in 2004, Hartman created Billionfold Studios. Billionfold also produced another Hartman cartoon for Nickelodeon, T.U.F.F. Puppy, which premiered on October 2, 2010, alongside the Jimmy Neutron spin-off Planet Sheen. The series received mixed reviews and ran for 3 seasons before being cancelled.
His fourth series, Bunsen Is a Beast, premiered on Nickelodeon January 16, 2017.
On February 8, 2018, Hartman announced in a YouTube video that he had left Nickelodeon on February 2 after having worked at the studio since December 1997. He confirmed in the video that this resulted in the end of production on Bunsen Is a Beast after just one season.
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1985–1986	It's Punky Brewster 	 	models
1987 	Growing Pains 	Robert Jordan 	Episode 3.5: "Michaelgate"
1988 	Just the Ten of Us 	Rod Grossman 	Episode 1.4: "Close Encounters"
1988 	Police Academy (TV Series)	 	models
1988–1989	Days of Our Lives 	HenryJake 	
1989 	Dink, the Little Dinosaur 	 	storyboard artist
1990 	Piggsburg Pigs! 	 	key model designer
1991–1993	Tom & Jerry Kids 	 	character designer
1993 	Droopy, Master Detective 	 	designer
1995 	What a Cartoon! 	 	creator: "Pfish & Chip" and "Gramps"
1996–1997	Dexter's Laboratory 	 	storyboard artist/background designer/layout artist
1997–1999	Johnny Bravo 	 	writer/director
1997 	Cow and Chicken 	 	models
1997 	I Am Weasel 	 	models
1998–2001	Oh Yeah! Cartoons 	 	creator: "The Fairly OddParents" and "Dan Danger", director/storyboard artist: "Zoomates"
1999–2002	Family Guy 	additional voices 	
2001–2017	The Fairly OddParents 	Dr. Rip Studwell 	creator/story/writer/director/executive producer
2003 	Pet Star 	Judge 	Episode 1.11
2004–2007	Danny Phantom 	 	creator/executive producer
2010–2015	T.U.F.F. Puppy 	Agent WeaselmanAgent Rodentski	creator/story/music composer/voice actor/executive producer/writer/storyboard artist/director
2013 	Big Time Rush 	 	guest star
2017–2018	Bunsen Is a Beast 	 	creator/writer/storyboard artist/director/executive
producer/theme music composer
===Film===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1986	An American Tail 	 	in between artist
1992	California Hot Wax 	Eddie 	
1995	Pocahontas 	 	video reference cast
1997	Annabelle's Wish 	 	storyboard artistDirect-to-video film
1998	Adventures in Odyssey: Baby Daze 	 	storyboard artist
1998	Adventures in Odyssey: A Stranger Among Us	 	storyboard artist
2004	Channel Chasers 	 	animator for "Channel 297" scene
2005	The Magic Roundabout 	 	writer: United States screenplay
2011	A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!	Waiter 	writer: series and characters
2012	A Fairly Odd Christmas 	Christmas caroler	writer: series and characters
==Works==
===Dexter's Laboratory===
====Written====
*Double Trouble
*Jurassic Pooch (along with Conrad Vernon)
*The Justice Friends: Krunk's Date
*The Justice Friends: Say Uncle Sam
*The Justice Friends: Valhallen's Room (along with Paul Ruddish)
*The Justice Friends: Can't Sleep
*Ant Pants
*Game Show
*Lab of the Lost (along with C. Miles Thompson)
*Nuclear Confusion
*Figure Not Included
===Johnny Bravo===
====Storyboarded====
*Jungle Boy in Mr Monkeyman
*Bearly Enough Time! (along with Barrington Bunce)
*The Sensitive Male! (along with Don Manuel)
*Insensitive Care
====Written====
*Super Duped
*That's a Wrap!
*Cookie Crisis
*'Twas the Night (along with Steve Marmel)
*Blarney Buddies
*Over the Hump!
*A Wolf in Chick's Clothing
*Berry the Butler
*Little Talky Tabitha!
*Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West! (along with Seth MacFarlane)
====Directed====
*Bearly Enough Time!
*The Sensitive Male!
*Cookie Crisis
*Blarney Buddies
*Over the Hump!
*The Day the Earth Didn't Move Around Very Much
*A Wolf in Chick's Clothing
*Bravo, James Bravo
*Berry the Butler
*Little Talky Tabitha!
*Johnny Bravo Meets Adam West!
===Cow and Chicken===
====Storyboarded====
*Dirty Laundry
*Meet Lance Sackless
*Bad Chicken
===I Am Weasel===
====Stroyboarded====
*I Am Deity
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