Neil Cicierega
Neil Cicierega ( born August 23, 1986 in Plymouth, Massachusetts) is an American comedian, film producer and musician. He is considered the founder of the Animutation, a type of flash animation. According iStardom Cicierega is on the 98th place of the most well-known Internet comedian.
Projects
Potter Puppet Pals
Potter Puppet Pals is currently a 13-part parody of Harry Potter, in which the persons (other than Neville Longbottom ) from the movie and the novels are represented by using hand puppets. The first episodes were originally animated at Newgrounds shown Cicierega finally decided to Potter Puppet Pals using real puppets display, and publish the videos on Youtube. The episode Wizard Swears was uploaded on iTunes, but deleted a short time later.
The Mysterious Ticking Noise is with close to 120 million views of one of the most viewed videos on Youtube. Potter Puppet Pals won 2008 YouTube Award in the category comedy. In this video Snape hears a mysterious ticking and sings to the rhythm of a song, with time to include several more figures on. Towards the end is Ron a pipe bomb that explodes. After Voldemort appears and sings a version of Lollipop by The Chordettes.
Music
Cicierega produced between 1999 and 2002 also music under the pseudonyms trapezoid and Deporitaz. Even today, he produced albums and goes live on the stage, but under the name of Lemon Demon. So far he has produced six albums, four of which were published on his website. His 2008 released album View- Monster is the first album by him, which is available on iTunes.
Discography
- 2003: Clown Circus
- 2003: Live From The Haunted Candle Shop
- 2004: Hip To The Javabean
- 2006: Damn Skippy
- 2006: Dinosaurchestra
- 2008: View- Monster
- 2009: Almanac 2009 (Limited Release )
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Together with a trainer Shawn Vulliez he produced in 2005 the Flash Video The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and published it on Newgrounds, where the video was eleven million times already viewed.
Short Films
In addition to Potter Puppet Pals he produced together with the short- filmmakers Kevin James, Ryan Murphy, Max Pacheco and JL Carrozza. He and Kevin James were commissioned by Plymouth Rock Studios to produce a series. This created the comedy short film series New Kids On The Rock. Several short films by Cicierega have already been in several well-known American Internet talk shows like Attack of the Show! (G4), Online Nation ( The CW ) and Chute! ( CBBC ) is shown.