User:BThayer

My name is Bob, and I'm a walking encyclopedia of otherwise useless knowledge. No, really.

I'm a computer animator on paper but haven't made it in that field. I'm planning to do something with it some day, maybe even in the next year. For now I'll just be a fountain of knowledge on most things animated. I've been studying art for over 20 years (closer to 25 now), focusing on animation in the last 10 years. I know a lot about cartoons, from episodes and characters to techniques and formats.

Like this wiki's creator, I'm a huge They Might Be Giants fan but sadly I've only seen them once - at The Egg (Albany). Still, I own nearly every album (sorry, not getting Here Come the ABC's) and nearly all the singles (that S-E-X-X-Y one eludes me still!) and I can talk about their music for hours. Music-wise, I was a drummer in a band for about 4 years and wrote my own classical music for about 5 years after that. I'm just now getting back into that after a 6-year hiatus.

As for Robot Chicken - well - I really liked Toyfair's Twisted Mego Theater. RC was on the air for a while before I caught it. The schedule for it is a bit bizarre - even for TiVo to grab it is a pain - so I missed it pretty much all through the original airing of the 1st season. When I read about RC and how it was created by the guy who was responsible for that (and Seth Green) I had to see it. I watched a few clips online (various video sites like GoogleVideo and YouTube, etc) and was hooked. I bought the DVD for Season 1 and screwed with TiVo's settings to pick it up correctly (had to adjust it to start earlier, mostly).

So far I think my favorite segment is Jedi Bush, though I'm also partial to The Neverending Party, 3 Fast 3 Furious and Apocalypse Pony.