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Daniel Kingsley "Dan" Povenmire (born September 18, 1963) is an American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and voice actor associated with several animated television series. He co-created the Disney XD cartoons Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law with Jeff "Swampy" Marsh.

Povenmire was previously known for his work on The Simpsons, Rocko's Modern Life and Family Guy. On the latter, he was a well-loved animator and was given many of the show's musical numbers to do. He was also counted on to animate "something funny" when writers couldn't come up with a visual joke on their own.

Early life

Dan makes a movie — Povenmire in his boyhood, filming a movie.

Dan was born in California but raised in Mobile, Alabama. Dan was a very creative child; during the summers, his mother always told him and his siblings that "Summer didn't last forever" and to experience every minute of it."^[1]

Dan did so, taking an interest in filmmaking and constructing his own mini-films with his Super 8 camera. A childhood prodigy in art, as when Dan was two, he started to draw, and by age ten he was displaying and selling his work in art shows.^[2] His inspirations animation-wise growing up were The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Looney Tunes.

Education

Dan attended the University of South Alabama, concurrently making a living waiting tables and acting. He also started a comic strip. He was interested in filmmaking, so he left that university and transferred to the University of Southern California (USC). There, his comic strip Life is a Fish became a hit, though not without struggle; when he first pitched it to Daily Trojan editor Mark Ordesky. Ordesky practically "brushed him off." After seeing Povenmire's portfolio, he asked Povenmire to start making the strip for the paper.^[2]

Milo Murphy's Law

On May 7, 2015, it was announced that after Phineas and Ferb concluded its run, Dan, Swampy, and many other people on the Phineas and Ferb crew would work on a new series, Milo Murphy's Law. The series premiered on October 3, 2016, a little over a year after Phineas and Ferb aired its series finale.

Milo Murphy's Law has a crossover between Phineas and Ferb in its second season. Milo Murphy's Law is canonically set in the same universe as Phineas and Ferb.

Episodes he directed

"Going the Extra Milo"

Episodes he wrote

"Going the Extra Milo"
"Sunny Side Up"

Personal life

Dan is married, with two children.^[3] and a cat named Sprocket, who appears to be the inspiration for character Perry the Platypus.

Background Information

Gallery

Trivia

He can be seen (animated) in "Battle of the Bands", "The Race", "Pace Makes Waste", and "The Goulash Legacy"

References

↑ Original Pitch (2008)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 USC dropout makes it big in animation 12 May 2008
↑ The Geek Dads interview special

External links

Dan Povenmire at Wikipedia

Dan Povenmire at Phineas and Ferb Wiki
Facebook page
YouTube channel
Twitter page
The "USC dropout" article no longer available on the USC website, but may be read at the Internet Archive. (This page will take several minutes to load.)

v - e - d Crew
Creators	Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Dan Povenmire
Writers	Jim Bernstein • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Dan Povenmire • Kyle Menke • Martin Olson • Scott Peterson • Joshua Pruett • Dani Vetere • Marja Adriance • Valerie Breiman
Storyboard Artists	Jacob Hair • Diana Huh • Kyle Menke • Dan Povenmire • Edward Rivera • Joseph S. Scott • Ashley Michelle Simpson • Calvin Suggs • Steven Umbleby • Chris Ybarra • Lauren Andrews
Directors	Bob Bowen • Robert F. Hughes • Dan Povenmire

[OSP-1] Original Pitch (2008)

[DT-2] 2.0 ^2.1 USC dropout makes it big in animation 12 May 2008

[Podcast-3] The Geek Dads interview special

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-'''Daniel Kingsley "Dan" Povenmire''' (born September 18, 1963) is an [[Wikipedia:United States|American]] [[Wikipedia:Animation director|television director]], [[Wikipedia:Screenwriting|writer]], [[Wikipedia:television producer|producer]], [[Wikipedia:Storyboard artist|storyboard artist]], and actor associated with several [[Wikipedia:Cartoon series|animated television series]]. He is the one of the creators of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' and ''[[Milo Murphy's Law]]. Born in California and raised in Mobile, Alabama<ref name="Alabama">[http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2008/05/disney_animator_sees_summers_i.html#more Disney animator sees summers in Mobile as inspiration]</ref>, Povenmire attended USC Film School. At USC, he wrote and drew a cartoon for The Daily Trojan called "Life is a Fish."''
+Povenmire was previously known for his work on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons ''The Simpsons''], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocko%27s_Modern_Life ''Rocko's Modern Life''] and ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy Family Guy]''. On the latter, he was a well-loved animator and was given many of the show's musical numbers to do. He was also counted on to animate "something funny" when writers couldn't come up with a visual joke on their own.
-In addition, Povenmire has been one of the main songwriters since the beginning of Phineas and Ferb, along with co-creator [[Jeff "Swampy" Marsh]] and fellow writer [[w:c:phineasandferb:Martin Olson|Martin Olson]].
-Povenmire was previously known for his work on ''[[Nickelodeon:Rocko's Modern Life|Rocko's Modern Life]]'' and ''[[FamilyGuy:Main Page|Family Guy]]''. He was a well-loved animator on ''Family Guy'' and was given most of the show's musical numbers to do. He was also counted on to animate "something funny" when writers couldn't come up with a visual joke on their own. He described his job before Fox resurrected the show as "basically entertaining themselves" as a production staff. <ref name="Hulu interview">[http://www.hulu.com/watch/21688/family-guy-family-guy---executive-produceranimator-collaboration Hulu discussion of Family Guy]</ref>
 ==Early life==
 [[File:Dan makes a movie.jpg|thumb|120px|left|Povenmire in his boyhood, filming a movie.]]
-Dan was born in California, but raised in Mobile, Alabama. Dan was a very creative child; during the summers, his mother always told him and his siblings that "Summer didn't last forever" and to experience every minute of it."<ref name="OSP">[[w:c:phineasandferb:Original Pitch|Original Pitch]] (2008)</ref>
+Dan was born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California California] but raised in Mobile, Alabama. Dan was a very creative child; during the summers, his mother always told him and his siblings that "Summer didn't last forever" and to experience every minute of it."<ref name="OSP">[[w:c:phineasandferb:Original Pitch|Original Pitch]] (2008)</ref>
+Dan did so, taking an interest in filmmaking and constructing his own mini-films with his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_8_film_camera Super 8] camera. A childhood prodigy in art, as when Dan was two, he started to draw, and by age ten he was displaying and selling his work in art shows.<ref name="DT">[http://www.dailytrojan.com/2.1792/usc-dropout-makes-it-big-in-animation-1.201942 ''USC dropout makes it big in animation''] 12 May 2008</ref> His inspirations animation-wise growing up were ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_and_Friends_(TV_series) The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show]'' and ''[http://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Looney Tunes].''
-Dan did so. He took an interest in film making, constructing his own mini-films with his Super 8 camera, and draping black material through their living room as a backdrop for his space films. He would use rockets and other toys to act out the movie. Other activities he took part in was digging a hole.<ref name="AM2">[http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&category2=&article_no=3534&page=2 Animation World Magazine interview, Pg. 2]</ref>
-Dan was a childhood prodigy in art, as well. When he was two, he started to draw, and by age 10, he was displaying and selling his work in art shows.<ref name="DT">[http://www.dailytrojan.com/2.1792/usc-dropout-makes-it-big-in-animation-1.201942 ''USC dropout makes it big in animation''] 12 May, 2008</ref> His inspirations animation-wise growing up were ''The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show'' and ''Looney Tunes.''<ref name="PP32"/>
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 ==Education==
-Dan attended the University of South Alabama, concurrently making a living waiting tables and acting. He also started a comic strip. He was interested in film making, so he left that university and transferred to the University of Southern California (USC). There, his comic strip ''Life is a Fish'' became a hit, though not without struggle; when he first pitched it to ''Daily Trojan'' editor Mark Ordesky, Ordesky practically "brushed him off." After seeing Povenmire's portfolio, he asked Povenmire to start making the strip for the paper.<ref name="DT"/>
+Dan attended the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_South_Alabama University of South Alabama], concurrently making a living waiting tables and acting. He also started a comic strip. He was interested in filmmaking, so he left that university and transferred to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southern_California University of Southern California] (USC). There, his comic strip ''Life is a Fish'' became a hit, though not without struggle; when he first pitched it to ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Trojan Daily Trojan]'' editor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ordesky Mark Ordesky]. Ordesky practically "brushed him off." After seeing Povenmire's portfolio, he asked Povenmire to start making the strip for the paper.<ref name="DT"/>
+==Milo Murphy's Law==
-The strip continued to run everyday in the paper. Povenmire never ran out of idea, however, and was able to gain $14,000 selling ''Life is a Fish'' T-shirts, books, and even calenders at the campus craft fair. Povenmire, however, dropped out of USC.<ref name="DT"/>
+On May 7, 2015, it was announced that after ''Phineas and Ferb'' concluded its run, Dan, [[Jeff "Swampy" Marsh|Swampy]], and many other people on the ''[[Phineas and Ferb|Phineas]]'' [[Phineas and Ferb|''and Ferb'']] crew would work on a new series, ''[[Milo Murphy's Law]].'' The series premiered on October 3, 2016, a little over a year after ''Phineas and Ferb'' aired its series finale.
+''Milo Murphy's Law'' has a crossover between Phineas and Ferb in its second season. ''[[Milo Murphy's Law]]'' is canonically set in the same universe as ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
-==Career==
-===Early works===
-Now out of school, Povenmire used the money he made from ''Life'' merchandise to support himself, and got a job as a street caricature artist to help. He received a call from an old friend from USC, who wanted him to help him with an animation. [[Wikipedia:Tommy Chong|Tommy Chong]] eventually called him, asking him to do two minutes of animation for his new film ''[[Wikipedia:Far Out Man|Far Out Man]].''<ref name="DT"/>
-[[File:Dan and Swampy accept an award.jpg|thumb|Povenmire and [[Jeff "Swampy" Marsh|Swampy Marsh]] receive an award for ''Rocko'' episode "Zanzibar!"]]
-By the age of 21, Povenmire began working with the animation cast behind ''[[Wikipedia:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]].'' He began hopping around to other jobs as well, eventually landing a job as an animation director on the hit FOX show ''[[w:c:simpsons:Main Page|The Simpsons]]'' during the mid-nineties.<ref name="DT"/> While working on ''The Simpsons,'' Dan met a fellow animator named [[Jeff "Swampy" Marsh|Jeffery Marsh]].<ref name="AM1">[http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&category2=&article_no=3534&page=1 Animation World Magazine interview, Pg. 1]</ref>
-Dan received a job on the Nickelodeon show ''Rocko's Modern Life'' after showing the creator Joe Murray his five years of extensive work for ''Life as a Fish.''<ref name="DT"/> On ''Rocko,'' Dan continued to work with his now friend Marsh, who shared a similar sense of humor.<ref name="AM1"/> In 1996, he and Marsh won an Environmental Media Association (EMA) Award for writing an episode called "Zanzibar!" one of Dan's first career accomplishments.<ref name="OSP"/>
-Dan and Marsh began to develop an idea for a show of their own in 1993 called ''[[Phineas and Ferb]].'' ''Phineas and Ferb'' grew a plot that was based on Povenmire's childhood. At a Wild Thyme restaurant, Dan drew the first drawing of titular character [[w:c:phineasandferb:Phineas|Phineas]] on the butcher paper laid out for the table. This began a domino effect of different characters, and they both began pitching the show around. Though every network they went to turned it down due to its complexity, the two's stubbornness caused them to not give up on it.<ref name="AM3">[http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&category2=&article_no=3534&page=3 Animation World Magazine interview, Pg. 3]</ref>
-===''Family Guy''===
-Marsh and he began to dispatch on their own separate ways of Animation, though still not giving up on ''Phineas and Ferb.''<ref name="AM3"/> Dan went on to become a long-time and well-loved animator for the FOX hit ''[[w:c:FamilyGuy:Main_Page|Family Guy]].'' There, he was given the role of most all of the songs, as well as animating a scene funny in order to gain comedy to a dry scene. He describes in experience on the FOX show as practically "entertaining themselves."<ref name="FGhulu">[http://www.hulu.com/watch/21688/family-guy-family-guy---executive-produceranimator-collaboration Producer-animator collaboration interview on Hulu]</ref>
-Not giving up on ''Phineas and Ferb,'' Dan continued to pitch the show around throughout his work on ''Family Guy.'' However, he was still being bested by each network's worry of the awkward complexity they saw in the plot.<ref name="AM3"/>
-===''Phineas and Ferb''===
-Dan's persistence finally paid off. Marsh had recently returned from England, now going by the nickname "Swampy," and the two proceeded in pitching the show to Disney. At first, Disney was uninterested, though they asked to keep Povenmire's packet of the show. Povenmire considered it over, as that usually, as he stated, "means they throw it in the trash later."<ref name="AM1"/><ref name="DT"/>
-But Disney, however, thought otherwise, and actually considered the show. They asked them to "see if they could do it for 11 minutes," which they did, and then officially decided to pick up the show.<ref name="AM2"/> Now sixteen years after the initial creation of ''Phineas and Ferb,'' it was officially greenlit.<ref name="DT"/>
-Povenmire wrote a total of 11 episodes for [[w:c:phineasandferb:Season 1|the first season]], directing nearly every one.<ref>''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' [[w:c:phineasandferb:Season 1|Season 1]] log</ref> The show became a smash hit on the Disney Channel lineup, outranking shows like ''Hannah Montana'' and ''The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.'' Povenmire as well began voicing the show's main antagonist [[w:c:phineasandferb:Heinz Doofenshmirtz|Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz]].<ref name="DT"/>
-Like on ''Family Guy,'' whenever Dan goes to work on ''Phineas and Ferb,'' he enjoys it, pretty much working "just to entertain themselves." He draws 300 to 400 pages of work to keep the show going,<ref name="DT"/> presenting each storyboard to the Disney executives to get each episode produced.<ref name="Day">[http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=352619 MSN's ''Day in the life of'' Phineas and Ferb]</ref> The songs he, Swampy and writer Martin Olson write every Friday are, as he says, "their jab at immortality"<ref name="DT"/><ref name="Day"/>
-On July 14, 2014, it was announced that Disney Television Animation extended its overall deal with Dan to develop new projects.<ref>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/disney-prepping-haunted-mansion-tv-719184</ref>
-===Post-''Phineas''===
-On May 7, 2015, it was announced that after ''Phineas'' concludes its run, in 2016, Dan, Swampy, and many people on the ''Phineas'' crew, will premiere a new animated series entitled ''[[Milo Murphy's Law]]''.
-===Milo Murphy's Law===
 ==Episodes he directed==
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 *"[[Going the Extra Milo]]"
 *"[[Sunny Side Up]]"
 ==Personal life==
-As of 2012, Dan is married, with two children.<ref name="Podcast">[http://downloads.wired.com/podcasts/assets/thegeekdads/thegeekdadsspecialphineasandferb.mp3?_kip_ipx=1895089171-1238013329 The ''Geek Dads'' interview special]</ref> He has a young daughter named Isabella, whom he named character [[w:c:phineasandferb:Isabella Garcia-Shapiro|Isabella Garcia-Shapiro]] after.<ref name="DPC">[[w:c:phineasandferb:User:Topher208/Dan Povenmire Correspondence|Dan Povenmire Correspondence]]</ref> He has a cat named Sprocket, who lives a "double life" with his neighbor, in order to get two helpings of food. This appears to be the inspiration for character [[w:c:phineasandferb:Perry the Platypus|Perry the Platypus]].<ref name="DT"/> He recently added his young daughter [[w:c:phineasandferb:Melissa|Melissa]] to the show as a young Fireside Girl about the age of 5-7, who made her first appearance in "[[w:c:phineasandferb:We Call it Maze|We Call it Maze]]".
+Dan is married, with two children.<ref name="Podcast">[http://downloads.wired.com/podcasts/assets/thegeekdads/thegeekdadsspecialphineasandferb.mp3?_kip_ipx=1895089171-1238013329 The ''Geek Dads'' interview special]</ref> and a cat named Sprocket, who appears to be the inspiration for character Perry the Platypus.
 ==Background Information==
 ==Gallery==
+<gallery>
+Scott and the Undergrounders.jpg
+The Race (96).png
+Pace (4).png
+Pace (5).png
+Pace (6).png
+Pace (7).png
+Pace (8).png
+PovenmireCameo.PNG
+</gallery>
+== Trivia ==
+He can be seen (animated) in "[[Battle of the Bands]]", "[[The Race]]", "[[Pace Makes Waste]]", and "[[The Goulash Legacy]]"
 ==References==
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 *{{Wikipedia-link}}
+*[[w:c:phineasandferb:Dan Povenmire|{{PAGENAME}}]] at [[w:c:phineasandferb|Phineas and Ferb Wiki]]
-*{{IMDb-link|type = name|page = nm0693933|name = Dan Povenmire}}
 *{{Official site|Facebook|https://www.facebook.com/dan.povenmire}}
 *{{Official site|YouTube|http://www.youtube.com/user/Dantible}}
 *{{Official site|Twitter|https://twitter.com/danpovenmire}}
 *The "USC dropout" article no longer available on the USC website, but may be read at the [http://web.archive.org/web/20080822094907/http://media.www.dailytrojan.com/media/storage/paper679/news/2008/05/01/Lifestyle/Usc-Dropout.Makes.It.Big.In.Animation-3360022.shtml Internet Archive]. (This page will take several minutes to load.)
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