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Encyclopedia > Eric Fogel
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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 directed several episodes of Daria. He is currently working in his new animated show Starveillance. A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Celebrity Deathmatch is a claymation parody television show that pits celebrities against each other in a wrestling ring, almost always ending in a gruesome death of the celebrity who lost the match. ... The Head began as an ongoing series which originally ran under the title MTVs Oddities, on MTV. Created by Eric Fogel, The Head is the story of Jim, a trade-school student, who awakens one morning to find that his cranium has enlarged to mammoth proportions. ... Daria was an American animated television series, created by Glenn Eichler and Susie Lewis Lynn, and was a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-head. ... Starveillance is a claymation television series created by Celebrity Deathmatch creator Eric Fogel that debuted on January 5, 2007 on E!. // The show parodies celebrity situations through stop-motion animation. ...

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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 Mutilator: Hero Of the Wasteland, a film which one professor sighted 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 The Head began as an ongoing series which originally ran under the title MTVs Oddities, on MTV. Created by Eric Fogel, The Head is the story of Jim, a trade-school student, who awakens one morning to find that his cranium has enlarged to mammoth proportions. ...


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. MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ... The Head began as an ongoing series which originally ran under the title MTVs Oddities, on MTV. Created by Eric Fogel, The Head is the story of Jim, a trade-school student, who awakens one morning to find that his cranium has enlarged to mammoth proportions. ...


Celebrity Deathmatch

Main article Celebrity Deathmatch Celebrity Deathmatch is a claymation parody television show that pits celebrities against each other in a wrestling ring, almost always ending in a gruesome death of the celebrity who lost the match. ...


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. MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to basic cable lineups across the nation. ... Starveillance is a claymation television series created by Celebrity Deathmatch creator Eric Fogel that debuted on January 5, 2007 on E!. // The show parodies celebrity situations through stop-motion animation. ...


Starveillance

Main article Starveillance Starveillance is a claymation television series created by Celebrity Deathmatch creator Eric Fogel that debuted on January 5, 2007 on E!. // The show parodies celebrity situations through stop-motion animation. ...


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. Starveillance is a claymation television series created by Celebrity Deathmatch creator Eric Fogel that debuted on January 5, 2007 on E!. // The show parodies celebrity situations through stop-motion animation. ... E!: Entertainment Television is an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network. ...


Trivia

  • He directed Marilyn Manson's video for "Astonishing Panorama Of The End Times".
  • He directed every episode of CDM from 1998 to 2002. He was replaced by Jack Fletcher in 2006.
  • He voiced several celebrities in CDM during the first two seasons of the show.

Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Girlson, is a musician and artist, known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the sock rock band that bears the same name. ... Jack Fletcher is a voice actor, casting director and voice director who has directed some of the biggest animes and video games around. ...

External links


The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ...

Celebrity Deathmatch
Characters
Johnny Gomez | Nick Diamond | Mills Lane (character) | Stone Cold Steve Austin | Debbie Matenopoulos | Stacey Cornbred | Tally Wong | The Masked Man | Betty-Sue Olsen
Other
List of Celebrity Deathmatch episodes | Celebrity Deathmatch (video game) | Charles Manson vs Marilyn Manson
Cast and crew
Eric Fogel | Maurice Schlafer | Len Maxwell | Jim Thornton | Chris Edgerly | Masasa Moyo | Mills Lane | Stone Cold Steve Austin
Debbie Matenopoulos | Matt Harrigan | Jack Fletcher


 
 

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