6 Point Harness

**Six Point Harness** (6PH) is an animation studio based in Los Angeles that develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, commercial, music videos and web-based content. Founded by **Brendan Burch** in 2003, some of the studio's most notable productions include Tom Hanks' *Electric City*, Fox's *Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey*, MTV's *Good Vibes*, Nick Jr.'s *Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!*, Nickelodeon's *El Tigre*, the animated feature *The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!*, and the web series *Dick Figures* for the YouTube channel Mondo Media. 6PH also released *Dick Figures: The Movie*, an in-house production developed from the company's web series.

6 Point Harness uses employees and collaborators nationwide.

## History

Brendan Burch founded the studio in June 2003. Six Point Harness worked on *The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!* and *Apollo Gauntlet*. In 2010, 6 Point Harness approached Mondo Media with a pitch for *Dick Figures* and arranged a partnership for the series; 6 Point Harness provided the financing and production while distribution was provided by Mondo Media.

In 2011 John Andrews came on board with the company to form 6 Point Media, the commercial branch of the studio. Six Point Harness and Titmouse, Inc. launched Rug Burn, a YouTube channel for animation, in 2012. Six Point Harness raised $313,411 through KickStarter to produce a feature-length episode of *Dick Figures* in 2012.

In 2013 the studio had two nominations for "Best Animated Web Series" for *Dick Figures* and *Electric City* at the Streamy Awards, with *Electric City* bringing the studio its first Streamy Award. That same year *Dick Figures* received an Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated Television or other Broadcast Venue Production.

Mondo Media and 6 Point Harness finalized a merger of their two companies in 2016. The company uses the Six Point Harness name for studio and production services, and Mondo Media branding for consumer-facing activities.

Six Point Harness provided the animation for the 2020 Oscar winning animated short *Hair Love* and produced an animated music video for the 2020 "Election Special" episodes of *Black-ish*.

## Productions

### Video games

* *Band Hero* (cutscenes) (2009)
* *Dark Souls III* (animated trailer) (2015)

### Web

* *Tire Fire Films* (2006)
* *Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series* ("Pre-Teen Raider") (2007)
* *Larry Craig's Sexy Stall Tactics* (2007)
* *Read A Book* (2008)
* *Ghost Town* by Shiny Toy Guns (music video) (2009)
* *Dick Figures* (2010–2015)
* *CollegeHumor* ("Realistic Superhero Funeral" and "Pizza Quest!") (2010–2011)
* *The First Time I Ran Away* by M. Ward (music video) (2012)
* *Electric City* (2012)
* *Listing* by Minus the Bear (music video) (2012)
* *Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program* ("Austin Oliver", "Cabrito and Chewy", "Carrot and Stick" and "Bear Wrestler") (2012–2013)
* *Rug Burn* (2012–2016)
* *We The Economy* ("GDP Smackdown", "Taxation Nation" and "The Unbelievably Sweet Alpacas") (2014)
* *Ninja Sex Party: Rhinoceratops vs. Superpuma* (2014)
* *SpindoTV* (2015–2016)
* *DreamWorksTV* ("Lizzie") (2016)
* *As Told By Emoji* (2016–present)
* *Minions* (2017)
* *HBO Backstories* ("Insecure") (2019)
* *The Birds & The Bees* (2019)