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J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. is a design and animation studio started by J. J. Sedelmaier and Patrice Sedelmaier in 1990. It produces both print campaigns and animated films in a variety of styles and techniques. The company's talents are also contracted for creative consultation and speaking presentations. Although known primarily for their cutting-edge commercial animation, such as Speed Racer, Slim Jim, FootJoy, Hotwire, 7UP, etc ... the studio has also been integrally involved with some of the most important ground-breaking animation series work of the past decade. JJSP was the studio entrusted by MTV to animate 120 minutes of the first season of MTV's " Beavis & Butt-Head "; they were responsible for the animation used for the 1993 relaunch of " Schoolhouse Rock " for ABC ; and were co-creators, with Robert Smigel, of the " Saturday TV Funhouse " cartoons for NBC's Saturday Night Live. The studio was the exclusive animation house for the first three seasons of the SNL "Funhouse" films, from 1996-2000 designing characters and animating such memorable series as " The X-Presidents ", " Fun With Real Audio ", " Animated Outtakes " and " The Ambiguously Gay Duo " (originally designed by J. J. Sedelmaier himself, and created by JJSP and Robert Smigel for the short-lived "Dana Carvey Show"). Even though JJSP has redirected the bulk of its creative attention to other venues, the studio continues its un-ambiguous relationship with Smigel and the Saturday Night Live cartoons with periodic episodes of the "Saturday TV Funhouse", most recently with the upgrading of all the animated titles to HDTV standards, and the interstitial animation used in the "Best of Saturday TV Funhouse." JJSP also developed the pilot episode of "Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law ", with Cartoon Network, that helped initiate the Network's Adult Swim block of cartoons. They also collaborated with Cartoon Network writer Stuart Hill to develop and animate, for Cartoon Network, a series of interstitial shorts based on an ever-present "Captain Linger " super-hero character. JJSP's most recent broadcast project is the creation of all designs and animation for the first season of the Colbert Report's "Tek Jansen" cartoon series. As the studio's director and creative force, J. J. Sedelmaier oversees everything that is produced by JJSP. He is known in the industry as an all-around expert on the history of film and cartoons, animation, print art and illustration. His forte is translating print/illustration into film, and over the years has collaborated with many of the country's foremost illustrators and artists, including David Levine, Al Hirschfeld, Garry Trudeau, Alex Ross, Don Martin, Neal Adams, Douglas Fraser, Gary Baseman, and many others. Equally important has been the ongoing efforts of an incredibly diligent and talented group of J. J. Sedelmaier Productions artists, animators and designers. The unique abilities of the production crew has contributed, over the years, to the studio's extraordinarily diverse and entertaining collection of work.