Background
Atoms grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado and is an animation graduate from the University of The Arts, Philadelphia.
Atoms grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado and is an animation graduate from the University of The Arts, Philadelphia.
University of the Arts.
According to Atoms, his inspirations in cartooning started in school with surrealism, influenced by monster movies and old Saturday morning cartoons. Atoms has stated to interviewers that anything is possible in animation: the only limit is your imagination. He got his first job as an intern at Film Roman at 22 years of age.
He is the creator of Cartoon Network"s animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Evil Con Carne, and has developed a Billy & Mandy spin-off Halloween special called Underfist.
Before he started working on his own series, Atoms was an intern at Film Roman, a freelance artist at Warner Brothers, had a brief stint at WildBrain and had also worked on Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. Atoms got a job at Hanna-Barbera and as a writer and storyboard artist on Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel.
Atoms also performed the voice of "Jeff the Spider" and "Piff" on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and voiced "Cod Commando" on Evil Con Carne. He also voiced several additional characters in the television-movie Billy & Mandy"s Big Boogie Adventure.
Atoms has been recognized several times for innovation and creativity in his work.
He and Tom have made multiple references to each other"s shows and have made a cross-over television movie, The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door. As well for C.H, Chowder made a brief cameo on Underfist. Atoms was also an executive producer and voice actor of the Disney show Fish Hooks with Noah Z. Jones.
As of 2012, Atoms begun developing a new project entitled Dead Meat, "an awesome black comedy/buddy action/puppet gore web series", which is still in production as of July 2013 and had a successful Kickstarter campaign as of November 15, 2013.
In an interview in 2013, Atoms stated that the series would be posted somewhere on the internet once it is finished. In early 2014, Atoms stated that he hopes to get the series released in 2015.
This fell through and the series remains in development. In 2016 he begun working on a new series called Bunnicula leaving Dead Meat in a sort of side development.
Special internship, Film Roman. University of the Arts. 1996. Annie nomination (1998)- Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production. Cow & Chicken "The Karate Chick". Top Pick Cartoons (2001-2002). television Guide. Comic-Con (2005, 2006 and 2007). 34th Annual Daytime Emmy, Children"s Programming, 2007 – The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
