Career
As a cartoonist, Firth"s work is largely distributed via the internet, most notably through the popular Adobe Flash animation website Newgrounds and his own personal websites. Notable animation sequences from Firth include Salad Fingers, as well as the comedic Burnt Face Manitoba series. A number of Firth"s works have been featured by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, and the British Broadcasting Corporation has hired Firth on several occasions to work on television programmes and commercials.
He also created a Flash animation series called Jerry Jackson in which a cartoon character claims to be a professional animator, even though the animation is intentionally poorly crafted.
The character was based on Firth"s perception of internet users who would leave hateful comments on his videos. Firth"s work often contains a large amount of dark imagery and tends to explore topics of a disturbing or surreal nature, such as depression and mental illness.
Firth has stated that it is not his intention to upset or offend. Some of his work may be described as dark humour, while much of it is simply experimental, using many different styles.
One of Firth"s most notable and productive projects has been Devvo,and also the DJ character "Shady Piez", The Devvo series has been described as "a pill-munching, northern scallie that seemed kind of like a documentary.
" but ".. far too harrowing and depressing for the main character to ever be realium" Firth has also produced short films for "Charlie Brooker"s Screenwipe", televised on British Broadcasting Corporation Four. Firth has produced several animations for the British Broadcasting Corporation Comedy web site, including his al Predictions 2009 and the Jerry Jackson series in 2009. In 2010 he created a new series for the British Broadcasting Corporation based around a character called Drillbithead.
As of 2012, Firth has been working on his first animated feature film under working title "The Meadow Manitoba".
Firth directed the music video for the Flying Lotus song "Ready Err Not", which premiered on Adult Swim on Halloween night 2014.