Rob Oliver

Rob Oliver

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Character layout artist Director Storyboard artist Technical director Birth date: 1977 Status: Active Number of episodes: 145 First episode: "The Old Man and the Lisa" Most recent episode: "Mathlete's Feat" Movie: The Simpsons Movie

Robert Douglas "Rob" Oliver (born 1977) is an American animator. He currently serves as a second unit director and previously served as a character layout artist, director, storyboard artist and technical director for The Simpsons.

Credits

Character layout

Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity" Episode – "Lisa the Simpson" Episode – "Natural Born Kissers" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" Episode – "Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble'" Episode – "I'm with Cupid" Episode – "Make Room for Lisa" Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica" Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields" Episode – "The Great Money Caper" Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "She of Little Faith" Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" Episode – "Gump Roast" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIII" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "A Star Is Born Again" Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" Episode – "The Regina Monologues" Episode – "Today, I Am a Clown" Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" Episode – "Midnight Rx" Episode – "Brick Like Me" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV"

Assistant director

• Episode – "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
• Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
• Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies"
• Episode – "Regarding Margie"
• Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"

Storyboard revisions

• Episode – "Regarding Margie"
• Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"
• Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
• Episode – "The Kid Is All Right"

Storyboard

Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Little Big Girl" Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally" Episode – "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "Sky Police"

Additional sequence director

• – The Simpsons Movie

Director

• Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"
• Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
• Episode – "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"
• Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
• Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed"
• Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (as The Thing That Ate Rob Oliver)
• Episode – "Blazed and Confused"
• Episode – "Sky Police"
• Episode – "Barthood"

Technical director

Episode – "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" Episode – "American History X-cellent" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale" Episode – "To Surveil, with Love" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Bob Next Door" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "MoneyBart" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" Episode – "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Ned-Liest Catch" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'Ohman" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "At Long Last Leave" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" Episode – "Ned 'N' Edna's Blend" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" Episode – "Moonshine River" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone" Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"

Animatic layout

• Episode – "Married to the Blob"
• Episode – "Days of Future Future"
• Episode – "Pay Pal"
• Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
• Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
• Episode – "Simpsorama"

Second unit director

Episode – "Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"

Animation director

• Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Opening sequence assistant director

• Episode – "The Winter of His Content"

External links

• Rob Oliver at the Internet Movie Database

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