Alan Smart is an animator and an animation director best known for his work for SpongeBob SquarePants and as a director, assistant director and layout artist with The Simpsons (the only episode he was credited for directing is the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's").
He also did animation for the Nickelodeon cartoons CatDog, Hey Arnold!, Rocko's Modern Life and Ren and Stimpy.
He has also done animation on four animated films: The Little Mermaid, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Oliver & Company and The Chipmunk Adventure.
Alan Smart also worked on the pilot episode of Family Dog and the first season of Rugrats.
Famous quotes containing the words alan and/or smart:
“Cole Thornton: Just a minute, son.
Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.
Cole: Lord almighty.
Mississippi: Yeah, well, that’s why most people call me Mississippi. I was born on the river in a flatboat.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature’s ways to bind you to the earth.”
—Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986)