Steven Fonti

Steven Fonti
Occupations
  • Animator
  • storyboard artist
  • writer
Years active1993–present

Steven Fonti, also known as Steve Fonti, is an animator, writer, director and storyboard artist. He has written, directed, and storyboarded selected episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons, and Family Guy, and worked in the art department on SpongeBob SquarePants and Family Guy, as well as such movies as Over the Hedge, Eight Crazy Nights, Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, Pooh's Heffalump Movie, Osmosis Jones, and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.

Fonti studied character animation at the California Institute of the Arts, where he produced a parody of Schoolhouse Rock! called Political Correction with fellow student Jory Prum in 1995. The film was part of Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation in 1997. His 1993 student film Yes Timmy, There is a Santa Claus was included in the 1998 Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted festival.

References

  1. ↑ "Emmy® Award Winners in Costumes for a Variety or Music Program and Individual Achievement Announced". Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. North Hollywood, California. August 21, 2007. Retrieved February 6, 2015. Steve Fonti, Storyboard Artist for Family Guy, episode: No Chris Left Behind, FOX / Fuzzy Door Productions in association with FOX TV Animation
  2. ↑ "Steven Fonti – from SpongePedia, the biggest SpongeBob-wiki in the world!". Spongepedia. May 2, 2008. Retrieved February 6, 2015. He is also a writer and the storyboard director for nickelodeon's animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants.
  3. ↑ Fonti, Steven; Prum, Jory (May 1996). "Political Correction". Vimeo. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Holden, Stephen (June 20, 1997). "Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation". New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2015. Steven Fonti's "Political Correction" parodies "School House Rock" with a singsongy number that carries political correctness to insane extremes by insisting that white people be referred to as "persons of non-color" and dogs be known as "canine-Americans." A subject that seemed to have been milked for all its humor clearly still has a little juice left.
  5. ↑ Petrakis, John (June 5, 1998). "This 'Sick and Twisted' Animation Fest Not Worth Your Time". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 6, 2015. And speaking of disgusting, the festival really lives up to its "Sick and Twisted" name with Steven Fonti's "Yes, Timmy, There Is A Santa Claus," which presents a gleefully sadistic St. Nick who gets off on bringing worthless and inappropriate gifts to handicapped children.