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.
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“Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
—Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)
“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”
—Fran Lebowitz (20th century)