Creator / J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc.

J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. is an American animation studio founded by J.J. Sedelmaier and his wife Patrice. Sedelmaier started his animation career as an animator for Buzzco Associates until 1984, when he worked with R. O. Blechman at The Ink Tank for six years. In 1990, Sedelmaier left the company to form his own company along with his wife Patrice located in White Plains, New York to create and produce animated commercials utilizing print illustrators as designers – an approach they continue to this day.

The studio is best known for providing the animation for Saturday Night Live's Saturday TV Funhouse segments, created by Robert Smigel, for three seasons and (alongside Wachtenheim/Marianetti) have continued to have a long and creative relationship with Smigel beyond SNL. Aside from SNL, the company was also best known for animating the first two seasons of Beavis and Butt-Head. Sedelmaier even worked with Betty Cohen to produce a sizzle reel that originally presented the concept of the Cartoon Network to Turner, and the rest was history. As the studio's director and creative force, J.J. Sedelmaier oversees everything that is produced by his company.

He is known in the industry as an all-around expert on the history of film, cartoons, animation, graphic design and illustration. His forte is translating print/illustration into film, and over the years his company collaborated with many of the country's foremost illustrators and artists including David Levine, Al Hirschfeld, Garry Trudeau, Alex Ross, Don Martin, Tom Warburton, Neal Adams, Douglas Fraser, Gary Baseman and many others.

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Shows worked on by J.J. Sedelmaier:

• Beavis and Butt-Head (season 1-2) (with USAnimation and Metrocel Animation Studios)
• Between the Lions (1 segment)^List "Silent E"
• The Colbert Report (Tek Jansen segments; also animated the Spartina vanity plate)
• The Daily Show
• The Dana Carvey Show (1 segment)^List "The Ambiguously Gay Duo"
• Hete Roy
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (1 episode)^List "Bannon Custody Battle"
• The Late Show with David Letterman
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (opening montage)
• Psych: The Big Adventures of Little Shawn and Gus (with 8 Hats High Animation)
• Saturday Night Live (50 Saturday TV Funhouse segments)^List all The Ambiguously Gay Duo segments, plus "Fun with Real Audio: Ross Perot & Larry King Ramble", "Fun with Real Audio: Bill Clinton and Bob Dole", "Fun with Real Audio: O.J. Simpson Trial", "The Michael Jackson Show", "The X-Presidents: North Korea", "Wheaty, the Wheaten Terrier", "Fun with Real Audio: State of the Union" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Fun with Real Audio: Tom Snyder stalks Dolly Parton" (with Tapehouse Toons), "The X-Presidents: Brazilian Environmental Summit" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Fun with Real Audio: Sally Jessy Raphael", "Fun with Real Audio: Casablanca Outtakes" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Fun with Real Audio: Clinton Press Conference", "Fun with Real Audio: Christmas" (with Tapehouse Toons), "George Clooney in The Sexiest Car Alive", "The X-Presidents: X-First Ladies", "Ah Lin the Skater Man", "Fun with Real Audio: Interviewing David Brenner", "Conspiracy Theory Rock!" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Titey" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Fun with Real Audio: Presidential Address Outtakes" (with Tapehouse Toons), "Fun with Real Audio: Howard Stern", "Hete-Roy", "Lost Cartoon Flashback: The Harlem Globetrotters First Christmas" (with Tapehouse Toons), "The X-Presidents: Constitution", "Fun with Real Audio: The Poetry of Jewel", "Fun with Real Audio: Oscar Highlights", "Unsold Cartoon Pilot Shack: The Ginsburg Gang", "25th Anniversary Special", "Fun with Real Audio: House Judiciary Committee", "Fun with Real Audio: Friends Apocalypse", "Fun with Real Audio: 1999: The Year in Journalism", "Fun with Real Audio: Up Close with Geppetto", "Fun with Some Real Audio: Madonna", "The X-Presidents: Independents", "Fun with Real Audio: NBC Fall Retooling Preview", "The Making of The Passion of the Dumpty", "Fun with Real Audio: John Roberts" (plus 1 one-off segment)^List "Cluckin' Chicken"
• Schoolhouse Rock! (12 shorts)^List "Busy Prepositions", "The Tale of Mr. Morton", "Dollars and Sense", "Tax Man Max", "Where the Money Goes", "$7.50 Once a Week", "Tyrannosaurus Debt", "This for That", "Walkin' on Wall Street", "The Check's in the Mail", "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College", "Presidential Minute"
• Strangers with Candy
• Sunday Pants (Captain Linger shorts)
• Transformers: Go-Bots (toy commercials; series by Wang Film Productions)

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Tropes associated with J.J. Sedelmaier:

• Animation Bump: Some of their commercial work.
• Limited Animation: Most of their work in general.
• Parody Assistance: The company animated a Saturday TV Funhouse segment called "Conspiracy Theory Rock!", a Schoolhouse Rock! parody about how companies allegedly control the media. Coincidentally, the company also animated 12 shorts for the actual Schoolhouse Rock! as well.

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