| “ | Hello there chaps, I'm David Firth | ” |
―David Firth | ||
David John Firth (born: January 23, 1983), also known as fatpie or Locust Toybox, is an English animator, writer, musician, actor, voice actor, filmmaker, artist, and broadcaster best known for his work on his original, Adobe Flash-animated series Salad Fingers. The first episode of Salad Fingers was largely distributed on the Internet, especially on Newgrounds and his own personal websites.
Videos[]
Firth's videos are primarily revolved around Flash animation, but he also produced multiple music videos along with works of video art, which in the end made him gain recognition.
His animation, sometimes surreal and experimental, primarily tends to contain dark humor, imagery, and topics of disturbing nature such as mental illness and depression. However, Firth has stated that upsetting or offending his audience is not one of his goals.
Firth has made multiple animated videos and a few animated series, like Jerry Jackson, Burnt Face Man, and most notably, Salad Fingers.
Series[]
Salad Fingers[]
Salad Fingers is a Flash-animated web series and the most notable work by Firth. This series is about the eponymous protagonist who is a mentally disturbed individual who often hallucinates and indulges in self-harm. Despite this, he means well and is friendly to everyone he encounters, though at times he absent-mindedly causes unintentional harm to them.
It is shown that he enjoys the sensation of rubbing his fingers on rusty objects, such as spoons and taps. This animated series is divided into eleven episodes. This is a list of episodes of Salad Fingers:
- Spoons
- Friends
- Nettles
- Cage
- Picnic
- Present
- Shore Leave
- Cupboard
- Letter
- Birthday
- Glass Brother
- Post Man
Other Animations[]
- Burnt Face Man 1-11
- SockLops
- Video Dating Tape
- Jerry Jackson 1-21
- TV episodes 1-4
- The World Within a Sock episodes 1-4
- Pulch: The Good Times
- Ptikobj
- Alan
- Crooked Rot
- Spoilsbury Toast Boy 1-3
- Girl/Boy
- Valentine's Day Special
- Wires
- Fat-Pie Episode 2
- I'd Like To Be
- Hell
- David Firth's Health Reminder 1-2
- Travelling Mind
- Hollowhead
- Broken Camcorder Rebuilds Itself
- Datach'i - Seconds In Silence
- The Child That Smelt Funny
- The News Hasn't Happened Yet Episodes 1-3
- Sock Episodes 1-5
- Not Stanley Episodes 1-4
- Drillbithead Episodes 1-4
- Cream
Trivia[]
- The name, Salad Fingers came from a joke from his friend when David was playing a guitar, commenting on how he has salad fingers.
- Salad Fingers, the main character of the eponymous series, has been featured in numerous video-games such as Newgrounds Rumble and Chaos Faction 2.
- He has a merchandise shop that is solely dedicated to Salad Fingers.
- Many of the backgrounds come from photographs David took in the forest or in abandoned buildings.
- He currently is working on a project called The Meadow Man but the project is still being worked on and he doubts it will be finished.
- Firth gets many of his ideas from dreams as they're abstract enough to work into a cartoon.
- He voiced the character, Shrimp in the Adult Swim series, Smiling Friends. The creators (Zach and Michael) asked him to give Shrimp the Jerry Jackson voice, hence the similarity.[2]