Danny Antonucci

The crawling lines are not nearly as active as those in Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, but are still visible, and Antonucci likens it to cartoons of the 1930s.

According to Antonucci, the characters were based on real people in his life.

The personalities of Ed, Edd, and Eddy are based on personal traits of himself, and the activities of his two sons.

The Eds also possess personality traits similar to The Three Stooges, whose money-making schemes and antics also invariably backfire.

The cul-de-sac children and the Kanker Sisters were all based on children he grew up with.

He resolved, however, to ensure that the series was produced in a way similar to the cartoon styles from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Antonucci spent months designing the show, before trying to sell it to Nickelodeon.

Nickelodeon told him that they would take the show, if they also obtained creative control.

Antonucci refused to give it, and instead took the show to Cartoon Network.

A deal was ultimately made for Cartoon Network to commission the show, after they agreed to let Antonucci go in his own direction.

Antonucci is a strong advocate of hand-drawn animation.

The wobbling animation in Ed, Edd n Eddy is an homage to the hand-drawn cartoons with a style that harkens back to cartoons of the 1940s to the 1970s.

To give the impression of movement, Ed, Edd n Eddy uses shimmering character outlines similar to Squigglevision.

Daniel Edward Antonucci (, ; born February 27, 1957) is a Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer.

Antonucci is most known for creating the Cartoon Network animated comedy series Ed, Edd n Eddy.

He also created Lupo the Butcher, Cartoon Sushi, and The Brothers Grunt.

Antonucci dropped out of the Sheridan College of Visual Arts to take a job as an animator at Hanna-Barbera and worked on a number of series, including Fables of the Green Forest, The Flintstone Comedy Show, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Smurfs, and Richie Rich.

He continued his career in Vancouver, working on animated shorts and television commercials for International Rocketship Limited, and created his first solo work, the animated short Lupo the Butcher.

At MTV, Antonucci worked on a number of commercials, his series The Brothers Grunt, and the animation showcase program Cartoon Sushi, which he co-created with Keith Alcorn.

He went on to create Ed, Edd n Eddy for Cartoon Network.

Intending to move to Los Angeles in 1984 to find more work, Antonucci landed in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He landed a job at International Rocketship Limited, animating short films and television commercials.

His first effort was on the short film Hooray for Sandbox Land.

Antonucci's first solo work was Lupo the Butcher, produced by International Rocketship Limited, about a short-tempered butcher who swears at the meat he is cutting and gets extremely mad at the smallest mistakes.

Antonucci explains the short arose out of his own frustration at having to work in children's film for so long, and to try his hand at creating a full-fledged character on film.

The short animated film screened at several film festivals, including Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in the United States.

The 'Lupo' character was eventually licensed by the Converse athletic shoe company.

This led to additional work, including animated commercials for Levi Strauss & Co. ESPN, Converse and MTV.

He also originally created a mascot for Cartoon Network, known as the jester, as well as the mascot's bumpers.

On April 1, 1994, Antonucci started an animation company named a.k.a. Cartoon, which produced the short-lived MTV series The Brothers Grunt, which began airing in 1994 and ended its run in 1995.

Antonucci went on to work on MTV's Cartoon Sushi show in 1997, directing, writing and providing voices, in addition to being responsible for the title sequence of the show.

Feeling confined to "gross" and "edgy" work, such as his series The Brothers Grunt, Antonucci decided to produce an animated children's television show again with his company a.k.a. Cartoon.

In 2008, Antonucci signed to WildBrain.

Throughout his career, Antonucci won a number of awards.

Many of his commercials for Converse, ESPN and Levi's won a number of awards.

Lupo the Butcher was a successful short and is considered to be a cult classic.

Antonucci's parents were Italian immigrants to Canada.

His experiences as a child in an immigrant family deeply influenced his later work, such as Lupo the Butcher.

Antonucci attended the Sheridan College of Visual Arts but quit to take a job as an animator at Canimage Production, a division of Hanna-Barbera.

Starting his career as an animator, Antonucci worked on numerous shows, including The Flintstone Comedy Show, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Smurfs, and Richie Rich.