American cartoonist, voice actor, and director

Mark "Thurop" Van Orman (born April 26, 1976) is an American cartoonist, animator, voice actor, television writer, producer and director best known for being the creator of Cartoon Network's The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, in which he voices the *le character.

Contents

• 1 Life and career
  • 1.1 Upcoming films
• 2 Inspirations
• 3 Filmography
  • 3.1 Film
  • 3.2 Television
  • 3.3 Voice roles
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Life and career

Van Orman was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia.

He studied character animation at the California Ins*ute of the Arts. He was the storyboard artist and co-writer for Camp Lazlo, The Powerpuff Girls and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He was also the supervising producer for Adventure Time and served as one for Sanjay and Craig only in its first season. Thurop is also somewhat known for responding to much of his fans' fan art through the website DeviantArt. He is the director of The Angry Birds Movie 2.

Orman has a brother named Jonny, from whom he took inspiration to start his animation career at Cartoon Network for Flapjack. He has been married to Sherri Van Orman and has two children: Leif and a younger sister.

Upcoming films

He is currently working on his stop motion film project *led Black Forest, as well as provided concept art for the film adaptation of The Little Prince. He has also announced via Twitter that he will be writing a film about Vikings.

Inspirations

His work took inspiration from Gary Larson, Jim Henson, Stephen Hillenburg, Craig McCracken, E. H. Shepard, Richard Scarry, Maurice Sendak, Mercer Mayer, Ronald Searle, Robert Crumb, Sergio Aragonés, Fleischer Studios, and his brother Jonny.

Filmography

Film

Television

Voice roles

References

External links

• Thurop Van Orman at IMDb
• Thurop Van Orman on DeviantArt