Chris Clements

Chris Clements

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Character layout artist Director Assistant director Status: Active Number of episodes: 101 Number of comic stories: 6 Seasons active: Season 5 - Present First episode: "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" Most recent episode: "King Leer" Movie: The Simpsons Movie First comic: Don't Cry for Me, Jebediah! Most recent comic: Clip Clip Hooray! Book: Bart Simpson's Joke Book

Chris Clements is an animator and director for The Simpsons. He currently serves as a director, character layout artist, storyboard artist and assistant director. He also served as a penciller for Bongo Comics.

For "The Haw-Hawed Couple", he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Animated Program (Less Than One Hour).

Credits

Directed by

Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "Frink Gets Testy" Episode – "King Leer"

Character layout artist

Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" Episode – "Lisa's Rival" Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" Episode – "Homer Badman" Episode – "Homie the Clown" Episode – "'Round Springfield" Episode – "The Springfield Connection" Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" Episode – "Radioactive Man" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI" Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud" Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" Episode – "Homer the Smithers" Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII" Episode – "You Only Move Twice" Episode – "A Milhouse Divided" Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" Episode – "Brother from Another Series" Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" Episode – "Grade School Confidential" Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "Lisa's Sax" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" Episode – "Bart Star" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "The Joy of Sect" Episode – "This Little Wiggy" Episode – "Lard of the Dance" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI"

Assistant director

Episode – "This Little Wiggy" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" Episode – "Mom and Pop Art" Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome" Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" Episode – "The Blunder Years" Episode – "She of Little Faith" Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" Episode – "Smart & Smarter" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie" Episode – "Jazzy & The Pussycats" Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot" Episode – "Dangerous Curves" Episode – "The Great Wife Hope" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "Labor Pains" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "Whistler's Father"

Storyboard revisions

• Episode – "The Great Louse Detective"

• Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"

• Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"

Storyboard

• Episode – "Mommie Beerest"

• Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"

• Episode – "The Girl Code"

Additional sequence director

• – The Simpsons Movie

Lead character layout artist

• Episode – "Elementary School Musical"

Animation director

• Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Second unit director

• Episode – "'Cue Detective"

Animatic layout

• Episode – "White Christmas Blues"

Pencils

• Comic story – Don't Cry for Me, Jebediah!
• Comic story – Krustonia
• Comic story – Bartman
• Comic story – Bartman - Part III: The Great Purple Hope
• Book – Bart Simpson's Joke Book

• Comic story – Lisa's Adventures in Wordland

Contributing artist

• Comic story – Clip Clip Hooray!

External links

• Chris Clements at the Internet Movie Database
• Chris Clements at Comic Book DB
• Chris Clements at Wikipedia

The Simpsons animation and Directors
Current directors
Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Matthew Faughnan • Mark Kirkland • Lance Kramer • Michael Marcantel • Chris Clements • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Michael Polcino • Chuck Sheetz • Ralph Sosa • Rob Oliver • David Silverman
Former directors
Neil Affleck • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Mark Ervin • Jen Kamerman • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Pete Michels • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Swinton O. Scott III • Alan Smart • Susie Dietter • Shaun Cashman • Gregg Vanzo • Young Sik Jeong