Harry Partridge

Harold Andrew Partridge (born 17 August, 1987), also known by the online name Happy Harry, is an English animator, artist, composer, voice actor, filmmaker, and Internet personality. He is best known for his animations posted to Newgrounds and YouTube, including Saturday Morning Watchmen and videos parodying The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
== Early life ==
Partridge was born on 17 August, 1987 to Andy Partridge and Marianne Wyborn. He grew up in Swindon, England. His father is known for being a founding member, vocalist, and guitar player for English new wave band XTC. In 1994, Partridge's parents divorced. The same year, Partridge's father began dating singer Erica Wexler. 
From an early age, Partridge was interested in animation, particularly Saturday-morning cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Partridge was introduced to the website Newgrounds at 12 or 13 years old while attending school. He and classmates would use school computers to play Flash games when the teacher wasn't looking. Partridge has cited Richard Williams, Brad Bird, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Bruce Timm among the major influences on his work. 
He attended the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College|Surry Institute of Art and Design, now part of University for the Creative Arts.
== Career ==
Partridge produced a thirty-second long animation titled The Human Snot and began publishing videos to Newgrounds in 2004. In September 2005, his cartoon Irving the Socially Awkward Bee was featured on the front page of Newgrounds and received a daily feature the next day. He created a YouTube channel in June 2006 and began uploading his content to both sites.
In March 2009, Partridge released Saturday Morning Watchmen, a parody of the influential comic series Watchmen in the style of a 1980s action cartoon intro. The short includes voice actors Hans van Harken and Joshua Tomar as Ozymandias and Bubastis, respectively. The rest of the characters, as well as vocals for the theme song, were performed by Partridge. The animation received a Weekly User's Choice Award and a Daily Feature Award on Newgrounds and was reported on by IndieWire and AV Club. Dave Gibbons, artist and co-creator of Watchmen, acknowledged the parody in an interview, saying "I loved it. The thing is, obviously they’re having fun with it but the way it was done, you know that the person really cared about what they were doing…really knew Watchmen in detail." As of September 2022, the YouTube upload of the video has garnered over 7.7 million views.
After the viral attention of Saturday Morning Watchmen, Partridge was approached by BBC to animate and produce content for BBC Comedy. Through this partnership, Partridge created two animated shorts, Johnny Depp in Burtonland, a parody of the Tim Burton's 2010 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, and I Can't Believe It's Not The Beatles: Rock Band, a parody of The Beatles: Rock Band. He also animated a video skit for comedy duo Mitchell and Webb titled "Attic Junk", released in May 2010. Partridge also created a series of animation tutorials in 2010 for YouTube channel HuHa! 2, called Happy Harry's HuHa! 2 How-To's, which taught how to make cartoons using Adobe Flash as well as animation fundamentals.
In February 2011, after the announcement of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Partridge released a video simply titled Skyrim. The video features a caricature of Partridge singing about his excitement for the new Elder Scrolls game to the tune of the game's main theme. The video was very popular, being featured on the website of video game magazine Game Informer. As on September 2022, it sits at over 24 million views and is the most viewed video on Partridge's YouTube channel. In November, Partridge followed up the success of the video with another musical parody animation, Song of Skyrim. Other videos based on the game series include The Elder Scrolls Adventures with the Dovahkids and Back to Tamriel, the latter coinciding with the release of The Elder Scrolls Online in 2014.
In March 2011, Partridge created a video satirizing the animation created platform GoAnimate, later rebranded as Vyond. The video received some criticism for its apparent mockery of and distain for the platform, including an article written for Cartoon Brew by animation journalist Amid Amidi. Partridge stated he "was really indifferent to the software" and simply had an idea he "thought would be funny."
From 2011 to 2013, Partridge was an animator and artist on a series called BearShark, a slapstick comedy inspired by Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner. Produced by CollegeHumor, the series was made as part of a partnership with Japanese video game company Nintendo to create exclusive content for their new Nintendo 3DS system.
In 2014, Partridge was approached by his YouTube network at the time to create a short film under the theme of "Geek Week". With this prompt he created the video With Animation You Can, a love letter to animation, however the project missed the deadline and Partridge "didn't receive a penny from the venture". Also that year, Partridge was commissioned to create an animated title sequence for the comedy audio commentary website RiffTrax, set to a song created by Jonathon Coulton.
In recent years, Partridge has been working as a freelance animator while working on his own projects. He has been able to fund original series like Starbarians and Dr. Bees using fan donations on the crowdfunding website Patreon. He was also an animator for the pilot episode of Hazbin Hotel, released in October 2019. In 2022, Partridge voiced multiple characters in the Adult Swim comedy series Smiling Friends, co-created by fellow Newgrounds animator Zach Hadel. He was also lead animator for the character "Mip" in the Smiling Friends episode, "The Enchanted Forest".
== Personal life ==
Partridge is married to artist Joyce Oder, who has also been a frequent collaborator on his films and projects. The two first met after Partridge was part of a Newgrounds panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2019	Shooting Clerks 	Usher (voice)	
TBD 	Everything, By Everyone	Himself 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
2011–2013	BearShark 	 	Animator, artist (2 episodes)
2019 	Hazbin Hotel 	 	Animator (pilot episode)
2022 	Smiling Friends	Announcer, Grease, 3D Squelton	Also lead animator for Mip (1 episode)
=== Web ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
2004 	The Human Snot 	The Human Snot 	Also director, writer, animator
2004 	My Brothers an Irishman! 	The Irishman 	Also director, writer, animator
2004 	Shrimps McGee 1 & 2 	Shrimps McGee 	Also director, writer, animator
2005 	50 Llamas Day 	Various voices 	Also director, writer, animator
2005 	Irving the Socially Awkward Bee 	Irving, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2008 	Chuck's New Tux 	Chuck 	Also director, writer, animator
2008 	Michael the Terrible Boyfriend 	Michael 	Also director, writer, animator
2008 	Tickles' Magic Pickles 	Tickles, Death Row Inmate 	Also director, writer, animator
2008 	The American Akira 	American Kaneda, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2008 	Chris & Harry 	Harry 	Also animator
2009 	Hal the Misinterpretive Porn Star 	Hal, Narrator, various voices 	Also director, writer, animator
2009 	Saturday Morning Watchmen 	Theme song (singing), various 	Also director, writer, animator, songwriter
2009–2011, 2016	Eddsworld 	Ghost, The Dentist, Internet CEO	Also composer (1 episode)
2009 	I Can't Believe It's Not The Beatles: Rock Band	 	Also director, writer, animator
2010 	Johnny Depp in Burtonland 	Johnny Depp, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2010 	NiN10Doh!: To the 64th Power! 	Voice 	
2010 	Ashen's Tech Dump 	Bo-Starr 	
2010 	Nicholas Cage Wants Cake 	 	Director, animator
2010 	The Justin Beiber Show 	Justin Beiber, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2010, 2019–2020	Starbarians 	Kilgar, Hogstrong, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2010 	Avatar - Hot Na'vi Sex 	Jake Sully, Neytiri 	Also director, writer, animator
2011 	Skyrim 	Harry, Trailer voice 	Also director, writer, animator, songwriter
2011 	GoAnimate: An Animation Revolution 	Harry, Gay Lobster 	Also director, writer, animator
2011 	Ace Ryder 	Ace Ryder, various 	Also director, writer, visual effects
2011 	Stephen the Lesbian 	Stephen the Lesbian, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2011 	Song of Skyrim 	Dovahkin, various 	Also director, writer, animator, songwriter
2011 	The Elder Scrolls Adventures with the Dovahkids	Various voices 	Also director, writer, animator, songwriter
2012 	Hitman Absolution: Hiding in Plain Sight 	Foster, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2013 	Dr. Bees 	Dr. Bees, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2013 	With Animation You Can! 	Harry 	Also director, writer, animator, songwriter
2013 	ZTV News 	Himself 	
2014 	A Kickstarter Video 	Ted Gier 	Also director, writer, animator
2014 	Back to Tamriel 	Harry 	Also director, writer, animator
2014–2020 	Rifftrax 	 	Animator, title sequence
2015 	#ChangeTheBees 	Dr. Bees, Comics CEO, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2016 	Sleepycast 	Himself 	
2016 	Return to Skyrim 	Harry 	Also director, writer, animator, songwriter
2016 	This Year 	Harry, Not Harry 	Also director, writer, animator
2017–2020 	Phelous & the Movies 	 	Animator (2 episodes)
2020 	Trilby Dogtooth vs. the Snapperchap 	Trilby Dogtooth 	Also director, writer, animator
2021 	Dr. Bees Returns! 	Dr. Bees, Omnipotron, various 	Also director, writer, animator
2021 	Le Hard Corner 	 	Animator (1 episode)
2021 	Slightly Artistic 	Himself 	
2022 	Outsider: A Pokémon Horror 	The Outsider, various 	Also director, writer, animator
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