Daniel Chiu

Daniel Chiu

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Background layout artist Color designer Background designer Status: Active Number of episodes: 259 Seasons active: Season 11 - Present First episode: "Little Big Mom" Most recent episode: "The Last Barfighter" Movie: The Simpsons Movie

Meng-Yee Daniel Chiu, credited as Daniel Chiu and incorrectly credited as Daniel Chui, is an animator for The Simpsons. He currently serves as a background designer and has previously served as a background layout artist and color designer.

Credits

Background layout

Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" Episode – "Behind the Laughter" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "Smart and Smarter" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "24 Minutes" – The Simpsons Movie Episode – "Lost Verizon" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Coming to Homerica" Episode – "The Great Wife Hope" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "500 Keys" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "The Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "Whiskey Business" Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy" Episode – "Homerland" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "YOLO" Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "Days of Future Future" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" Episode – "Opposites A-Frack" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Waiting for Duffman" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "Halloween of Horror" Episode – "'Paths of Glory" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two"

Color designer

Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "The Great Money Caper" Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" Episode – "Pokey Mom" Episode – "Worst Episode Ever" Episode – "Tennis the Menace" Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" Episode – "Bye, Bye, Nerdie" Episode – "Simpson Safari" Episode – "Trilogy of Error" Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "The Parent Rap" Episode – "Homer the Moe" Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" Episode – "The Blunder Years" Episode – "She of Little Faith" Episode – "Brawl in the Family" Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut" Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" Episode – "The Bart Wants What It Wants" Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West" Episode – "The Old Man and the Key" Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's" Episode – "Gump Roast" Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)" Episode – "The Sweetest Apu" Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten" Episode – "The Frying Game" Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIII" Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" Episode – "Large Marge" Episode – "Helter Shelter" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "Special Edna" Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" Episode – "Pray Anything" Episode – "Barting Over" Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" Episode – "A Star Is Born Again" Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" Episode – "C.E. D'oh" Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly" Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" Episode – "Moe Baby Blues" Episode – "The Bart of War" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" Episode – "The President Wore Pearls" Episode – "The Regina Monologues" Episode – "The Fat and the Furriest"

Background layout supervisor

• Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
• Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"

Lead background layout

Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" Episode – "The Monkey Suit" Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" Episode – "Little Big Girl" Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" Episode – "Moonshine River"

Background design

Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "Yokel Chords" Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" Episode – "Brick Like Me" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "The Town" Episode – "Trust but Clarify" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend" Episode – "Dad Behavior" Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "The Cad and the Hat" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "A Father's Watch" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" Episode – "Dogtown" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "Whistler's Father" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "Singin' in the Lane" Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus" Episode – "Gone Boy" Episode – "Haw-Haw Land" Episode – "Frink Gets Testy" Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Fears of a Clown" Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Forgive and Regret" Episode – "Left Behind" Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Episode – "101 Mitigations" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Woo-hoo Dunnit?" Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content" Episode – "The Fat Blue Line" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" Episode – "Hail to the Teeth" Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "Frinkcoin" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two" Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" Episode – "Undercover Burns" Episode – "I, Carumbus" Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't" Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "Three Dreams Denied" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry" Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited" Episode – "Diary Queen" Episode – "Wad Goals" Episode – "Yokel Hero" Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?" Episode – "Manger Things" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion" Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A." Episode – "The Last Barfighter"

Prop designer

• Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"

Background layout/design

• Special – Playdate with Destiny
• Special – The Good, the Bart, and the Loki

External links

• Daniel Chiu at the Internet Movie Database

Background designers

Current background designers Lynna Blankenship • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Seth Cooper • Ralph Delgado • Jabu Henderson • Sam Ho • TJ Kim • Christian Lignan • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Mark Mulgrew • Debbie Peterson • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Chuck Puntuvatana • Charles Ragins • Dean Scammahorn • Chris Stephen Sentovich • Bill Thyen • Lance Wilder Former background designers Alvaro Arce • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Chris Bolden • Andy Chen • Chad E. Cooper • Jarod Daetwiler • Alexander C. Dilts • Edgar Duncan • Tria Ellison • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Ernesto Escobar • Sarah Frost • Ed Ghertner • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Gary Hoffman • Trevor Johnson • John Krause • John Liu • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Walter Mancia • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Kevin N. Moore • Phil Ortiz • John Pattison • Javier Pineda • Jeffrey Purves • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Taylor • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background designers Geoffrey Anderson • David Beall • Ryan Cheetham • Andrew DeLange • Charles Garcia • John Gibson • Tim Hwang • Heejin Kim • John Seymore • Robert Soussana • George Stokes • Antonio Torres • Arnel Torres • Lindsay Woods

Background layout artists

Current background layout artists Geoffrey Anderson • Ryan Cheetham • Andy Chen • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Sam Ho • Heejin Kim • John Liu • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Stokes • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor Former background layout artists John Achenbach • Young Baek • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Sue Bielenberg • Lynna Blankenship • Jennifer Bogartz • Chris Bolden • Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Mark Bykov • Mike Camarillo • Paul Castro • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Chad E. Cooper • Alfred "Tops" Cruz • Carol Delmindo Datuin • Peter J. DeLuca • Claude Denis • Alexander C. Dilts • Arnold Doong • Edgar Duncan • Eric Dunn • Mark Ervin • Sarah Frost • Tricia Garcia • Monette Goldman • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Jake Hempe • Jabu Henderson • Gary Hoffman • Jeremy Horn • Mark Howard • Trevor Johnson • Dave S. Karoll • Atanas Karpelas • Kui Yong Kim • TJ Kim • Young Kim • John Krause • Nancy Kruse • John Lindauer • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • John Mathot • Pete Michels • Larry Miravalles • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Carlos Nieto III • John Pattison • Debbie Peterson • Mike Frank Polcino • Cameron Porter • Charles Ragins • Becca Ramos • Jerry Richardson • Denis Rychlick • Rick Salonga • Dean Scammahorn • Peter Shin • Cole Shortt • Steve Smith • Chad Stewart • Tuck Tucker • Scott Uehara • Don Vanderbeek • Cliff Voorhees • Jefferson R. Weekley • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background layout artists James P. Alles • Galina Budkin • Edgar Carlos • Derek Carter • Namsuk Cho • Randol Eagles • Natalie Franscioni Karp • Rodel Gravo • Lam Hoang • Cynthia Ignacio • Arlan Jewell • Hyung-Ki Kim • Yeon-Ju Kim • Alex J. Lee • Ashley Lenz • Juan Luna • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Gary Mouri • Mark Mulgrew • Gang Peng • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Johnathan Pyun • Gerald Clifford Rey • Choun-Wung Son • Thomas Starnes • Allen Tam • Danny Taverna • Kevyn L. Wallace • Wallace Williamson • Chad Woods • Chung Sup Yoon • Jennifer Yuan

Prop designers

Current prop designers Darrel Bowen • Seth Cooper • John Krause • Kevin N. Moore • Mike Pettengill • Jefferson R. Weekley Former prop designers Andrew Burrell • Daniel Chiu • Jarod Daetwiler • Lance Falk • Heejin Han • Ken Harsha • Dale Hendrickson • Sam Ho • Trevor Johnson • Heejin Kim • Alexandra Kube • John MacFarlane • Richard Manginsay • Kevin M. Newman • Ernesto Ochoa • John Rice • Jeremy Robinson • Tommy Tejeda • Bill Thyen • Joe Wack Other prop designers Lynna Blankenship • Liz Craig • Christy DeHoog • Lindse Fletcher • Nathan Gammill • Phillip Hartmann • Mark Mulgrew • Brent Noll • Gene Warren III