Adult Animation

Seth Macfarlane:

Seth was the creator of famous Adult animated comedies such as South Park, American Dad and Family Guy. South Park was created before family guy but now all his creations have millions of views.

Family Guy was created in 1999 and is still in production to this day. His more common ones are American Dad (2005-present) and the Cleveland Show (2009-present).

Seth is seen as a voice actor, director, animator and screenwriter. Which have all been used in these animations.

This is an example of Family Guy including an interview with Seth Macfarlane.


Matt Groening:

Matt is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. He created the famous Simpsons (1989-present) and Futurama (1999-2003 and again 2008-present).

The simpsons are really simple characteristic images and is seen as an adult animation. It is also suitable for the younger target audience unlike South Park or Family Guy. The Simpsons is seen as one of the most famous comedies. Since 1989 the characters have not really changed graphically but even to this day the simple drawings are still effective.

This is an Episode from Series 5 of the Simpsons creation, so it was quite an early stage in the animation. The Simpsons has over 20 Series and Episodes which show the development they made. As you can see they are simple but effective ideas and drawings.


Aardman Animations:

These are the company which created Wallace and Gromit. This Animation series is created by Nick Park. The characters of Wallace & Gromit and both moulded models. The plasticine they are made out of makes them easily movable and have been used ever since the show was created (1989-present). The Models are about the length of an adult arm but are made to look real human size in the animation.

Aardman Animations are a British animation studio based in Bristol. The business is well known for making stop motion clay animation techniques. Nick Park was famous for using models in Wallace & Gromit and the more common Shaun the Sheep.

This is an example of the plasticine figures in Wallace & Gromit, they are made to look human sized.


Nintentdo - Pokemon:

Nintendo were a Japanese video game which worked with Satoshi Jatiri in 1996 to create Pokemon. It was originally developed and created by Game Freak, who made Game Boy role-playing games. Since it was created Pokemon has become the 2nd most popular franchise in the world, after Nintendo's own Mario franchise.

From the actual animation and movies Pokemon has been developed and created into more interactive and physical things such as Toys, teddies and Pokemon cards. As of May 2010 the sales of the video games created based on Pokemon (Pikachu - Nintendo 64) had sold more than 200 million copies.

Satoshi Jatiri is a video game designer most famously known as the creator of Pokemon and the founder of development company Game Freak, inc. The games such as Pokemon red/green/blue took six years to create until they were released on Game Boy. This sparked a multi-Billion dollar franchise. Satoshi has also worked for other extremely famous animated games such as Mario and Zelda.


This is the Intro of Pokemon which has been around the same tune and lyrics all the way up to the present episodes. Simple images of characters and monsters but make it very effective.