Television
Voltaire was able to land his first directing job in 1988 with MTV, creating the classic "MTV-Bosch" station ID in the style of Hieronymus Bosch. The stop motion tour of the hellish Garden of Earthly Delights won several awards including a Broadcast Design Award. He has also made morbid station IDs and for clients such as Cartoon Network and Sci-Fi Channel, USA Network, and Nickelodeon.
Besides his work with commercials, he has made short films and series such as Rakthavira and Chi-Chian. Chi-Chian, based on an ID he did for the Sci-Fi Channel, is now a 14 episode flash animated series on Syfy's website. Before that, Chi-Chian started out as a graphic novel series that included 6 issues (published by Sirius Entertainment), which eventually evolved into the Flash-animated series.
He currently teaches stop motion animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, as well as animating, directing and singing.
Voltaire has written two of his songs especially for the TV show The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: "BRAINS!" and "Land of the Dead".
Appeared on the Discovery Channel series, Oddities, in 2012, buying a "slice of brain" for a music video prop.
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