Mark Ervin

Mark Ervin

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Director Background layout artist Character layout artist Main title animator Storyboard artist Status: Inactive Number of episodes: 169 Number of comic stories: 2 Seasons active: Season 2 - 24 First episode: "Bart Gets an "F"" Most recent episode: "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Movie: The Simpsons Movie First comic: The Truth About Cats and Mice Most recent comic: Maggie's Mobilization

Mark Ervin is a former animator and director for The Simpsons. He served as a director, background layout artist, main title animator, storyboard artist, character layout artist and assistant director. He also worked for Futurama and Family Guy.

Credits

Directed by

• Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing"
• Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
• Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"

Background layout artist

• Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
• Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
• Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
• Episode – "Dead Putting Society"
• Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
• Episode – "The Way We Was"
• Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
• Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F""
• Episode – "Old Money"

Main title animation

Episode – "Dancin' Homer" Episode – "Dead Putting Society" Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving" Episode – "Bart the Daredevil" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" Episode – "The Way We Was" Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" Episode – "Principal Charming" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F"" Episode – "Old Money" Episode – "Brush with Greatness" Episode – "Lisa's Substitute" Episode – "The War of the Simpsons" Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book" Episode – "Blood Feud" Episode – "Stark Raving Dad" Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" Episode – "When Flanders Failed" Episode – "Bart the Murderer" Episode – "Homer Defined" Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" Episode – "Lisa's Pony" Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder" Episode – "Flaming Moe's" Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" Episode – "I Married Marge" Episode – "Radio Bart" Episode – "Lisa the Greek" Episode – "Homer Alone" Episode – "Bart the Lover" Episode – "Homer at the Bat" Episode – "Separate Vocations" Episode – "Dog of Death" Episode – "Colonel Homer" Episode – "Black Widower" Episode – "The Otto Show" Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" Episode – "Kamp Krusty" Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge" Episode – "Homer the Heretic" Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" Episode – "Marge Gets a Job" Episode – "New Kid on the Block" Episode – "Mr. Plow" Episode – "Lisa's First Word" Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass" Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail" Episode – "Selma's Choice" Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "I Love Lisa" Episode – "Duffless" Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield" Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" Episode – "The Front" Episode – "Marge in Chains" Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled" Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" Episode – "Cape Feare" Episode – "Homer Goes to College"

Character layout

Episode – "Blood Feud" Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown" Episode – "I Married Marge" Episode – "Separate Vocations" Episode – "Black Widower" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" Episode – "Lisa's First Word" Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail" Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield" Episode – "The Front" Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" Episode – "Cape Feare" Episode – "Rosebud" Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show" Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land" Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" Episode – "Homie the Clown" Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul" Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors" Episode – "The Day the Violence Died" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII" Episode – "The Springfield Files" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "Lisa's Sax" Episode – "Realty Bites" Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions" Episode – "Bart the Mother" Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" Episode – "The Sweetest Apu" Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" Episode – "A Star Is Born Again" Episode – "C.E. D'oh" Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" Episode – "The Bart of War" Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest" Episode – "Margical History Tour" Episode – "The Way We Weren't" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" Episode – "See Homer Run" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" Episode – "The Boys of Bummer" Episode – "Crook and Ladder" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "The Debarted" Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" Episode – "All About Lisa" Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" Episode – "MyPods and Boomsticks" Episode – "Take My Life, Please" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"

Additional animation timer

• Episode – "Lemon of Troy"

Animation timer

• Episode – "Lard of the Dance"

Storyboard

Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love" Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Episode – "Fraudcast News" Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl" Episode – "Pranksta Rap" Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale" Episode – "To Surveil, with Love" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"

Storyboard assistant

• Episode – "Whacking Day"

Assistant director

Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass" Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" Episode – "Homer Badman" Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" Episode – "Homer's Enemy" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "Realty Bites" Episode – "Trash of the Titans"

Additional story artist

• – The Simpsons Movie

Storyboard revisions

• Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"

Lead character layout

• Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
• Episode – "Them, Robot"
• Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
• Episode – "Moonshine River"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"

Pencils

• Comic story – The Truth About Cats and Mice
• Comic story – Maggie's Mobilization

External links

• Mark Ervin at the Internet Movie Database
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Directors

Current directors Bob Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Lance Kramer • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino Former directors Neil Affleck • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susie Dietter • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa One time directors Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Eric Koenig • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo Supervising directors Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman Second unit directors Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell Other directors Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • Jorge R. Gutierrez • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner

Assistant directors

Current assistant directors Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Manny DeGuzman • Matthew Faughnan • Yelena Geodakyan • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Oscar Pangestu • Dane Romley • Herman Sharaf • Shane K. Sowell • Toni Tysen • Kathy Zielinski Former assistant directors Neil Affleck • Edwin E. Aguilar • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Norman P. Auble • Carlos Baeza • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • David Bastian • David Blum • Scott Brutz • Shaun Cashman • Christianna Lang Daley • Susie Dietter • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Hunilla Fodor • Jonathan Gebhart • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Klay Hall • Mickey Handsome • Matthew Herbert • Sean Hobin • Brian Iles • Jen Kamerman • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Ben Lane • Davy Lauterbach • Grant Lee • Ely Lester • Chris Loudon • Michael Ludy • Richard Manginsay • Michael Marcantel • Tom Mazzocco • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Howy Parkins • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • James Purdum • Alex Que • Jim Reardon • Stephen Reis • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • Alan Smart • Steve Socki • Ralph Sosa • Debbie J. Spafford • Ethan Spaulding • Josh Taback • Cyndi Tang • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee • Thomas Woodall Other assistant directors Colin Heck • Eric Koenig • Drew McPhail • Michael Rundle • Art Seidel • Gregg Vanzo