Jon Schnepp

Schnepp worked between 1967 and 2018 across film director, screenwriter, voice actor, film producer and film editor and 1 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 5 published texts and 5 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Name — Jon Schnepp • Birth Name — Jonathan David Schnepp • Born — 16 May 1967 • Birthplace — West Haven, Connecticut, United States • Died — 19 July 2018 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Education — School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) • Occupation — animator, producer, director, editor, writer, voice actor, media host • Partner — Holly Payne • Years Active — 1986–2018

Schnepp served as animation director for Nickelodeon's What's Inside Heidi's Head?, and as editor on numerous episodes of Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast. He co-directed the pilot for Upright Citizens Brigade for Comedy Central, and directed segments and the title sequence for the series run. He also released The Removers and Brainwarp, two pilots he produced and directed, on DVD by Film Threat. He then went to Brazil, working with Debbie Allen, editing and creating the title sequences for two sitcoms airing in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Schnepp co-created, co-wrote, and directed Nerd Hunter 3004 for the Channel 101 pilot. He also guest stars as a voice actor on three episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. In two episodes he voices the Wisdom Cube and in the other he plays The Creature from Plaque Lagoon. From 2006 to 2012, Schnepp served as director on Metalocalypse, an animated series on Cartoon Network about Dethklok, a chiefly-fictional heavy metal band. As well as directing several episodes per season (the most recent of which aired in 2012), he designed and created the look of the five band members, and works closely with the show's co-creators/writers Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. He directed the 2009 Dethklok Tour with Mastodon, providing an animated accompaniment. Schnepp helped write all four Dethklok comic books, and designed variant cover arts. Schnepp co-directed Season 4.1 of The Venture Bros. Schnepp was featured in The Damned Things' music video for "We've Got a Situation Here". In 2011, Schnepp directed music videos for the bands I Set My Friends on Fire and Forbidden. In a 2012 Dread Central interview, he spoke of directing an upcoming animated horror film Grimm Fairy Tales. From 2012 to 2015, Schnepp was a regular contributor to AMC Movie Talk on YouTube, an online show dedicated to film news and commentaries. After the series' cancellation by AMC Theatres and subsequent pickup by Collider, Schnepp remained as a regular contributor. In 2015, Schnepp directed the documentary film The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?, which documents behind-the-scenes events surrounding the cancelled Tim Burton film Superman Lives. Partially raised through a successful Kickstarter campaign, it premiered on May 1, 2015, and was released through VOD on July 9, 2015, to positive reviews.

On July 12, 2018, Schnepp suffered a stroke that left him unconscious and on life support. He died of complications a week later on July 19, aged 51.

• Year — Artist — Song — Notes • | 1991 — Infectious Grooves — "Therapy" — Extra • | 1992 — Iron Maiden — "Be Quick or Be Dead" • | 1994 — Melvins — "Revolve" • | 1997 — Metallica — "The Memory Remains" • 2007 — Dethklok — "Bloodrocuted" — Co-director (with Brendon Small) • | Exodus — "Riot Act" — Director • 2008 — Dethklok — "Murmaider" — Director • "Briefcase Full of Guts" • "Birthday Dethday" • "Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle" • "Hatredcopter" • "Thunderhorse" • "Go Into the Water" • 2009 — "Bloodlines" • "Dethsupport" • "The Gears" • "Burn The Earth" • "Black Fire Upon Us" • 2010 — Exodus — "Downfall" • | The Damned Things — "We've Got a Situation Here" — Guest appearance only • 2011 — I Set My Friends on Fire — "Astral Rejection" — Director • | Forbidden — "Omega Wave" — Director

Jon Schnepp was born on 16 May 1967 in West Haven. Schnepp held the nationality of United States. Schnepp worked as film director, screenwriter, voice actor and film producer, and the authority record catalogues a further 2 occupations under the same name, among them film editor and television producer. Schnepp worked in English.

Schnepp worked for the screen, as film director, screenwriter and film producer. 3 films survive in the institutional catalogues, spanning 2012 to 2015. They are The ABCs of Death (2012), Metalocalypse and The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?