Greg Franklin

Greg Franklin
OccupationAnimation director / Co-founder of Six Point Harness
Known forThe Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, Prison Pit
Websitehttp://www.6pointmedia.com/directors/greg-franklin/

Greg Franklin is an American cartoonist and animation director. He is the co-founder of Six Point Harness[1] (6PH), a Los Angeles-based animation studio that develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, music videos and web-based content.

Greg has presided over several dozen hours of all manner of animated entertainment and is best known for directing The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie![2] for Comedy Central, the animated sequences for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, and episodes of MTV's Good Vibes. He has also helmed many other animated projects and live-action/animation hybrids like Where My Dogs At?, animated segments of Sony Pictures' Black Dynamite, FOX's Fringe, NBC's Medium and Drop Dead Diva, TV commercials for MetLife, KIA and Taco Bell, as well as a series of acclaimed animated shorts[3] for comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K.,[4] Wyatt Cenac,[5] Kyle Kinane[6] and many others.[7]

His latest projects for 6PH include Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on FOX, the Nickelodeon short Bear Wrestler,[8] and directing animation on a series of 2-D shorts based on Sony Pictures' Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.[9] Most recently Franklin directed the animated version of the fan-favorite and cult classic graphic novel Prison Pit, written by Johnny Ryan and published by Fantagraphics.[10] The uncensored, ultra-violent series is well received among comic book insiders and fans alike, acclaimed for its creative allegiance to the original black and white comic book.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Greg Franklin". 6 Point Media. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  2. ^ "The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! (2010)". IMDb. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  3. ^ "6PH does animated short in Jerry Seinfeld/Crackle series". Bubbleblabber.com. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Louis CK "Comedians in Cars" - 6 Point Media". 6 Point Media. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  5. ^ "Franklin Goes Medieval On Wyatt Cenac - Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links". Coldhardflash.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Franklin Produces Animated Bunnies For Kyle Kinane - Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links". Coldhardflash.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  7. ^ "6PH Fuels Seinfeld and Louis C.K. Animation - Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links". Coldhardflash.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Exclusive: Nickelodeon Announces 2014 Animated Shorts Program". Cartoon Brew. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  9. ^ "Dave Feiss Directs "Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs 2" Hand-Drawn Short "Earl Scouts"". Cartoon Brew. 13 October 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Learn the inside story about the new cartoon, "Prison Pit," featuring James Adomian, Kyle Kinane, and Blake Anderson". The Laugh Button. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  11. ^ "6 Point Harness Co-Founder Greg Franklin Talks Animating Prison Pit". Comicbook.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  12. ^ "AICN COMICS REVIEWS: PRISON PIT BOOK ONE The Movie! MILES MORALES: THE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN!". Aint It Cool News. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.


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