Lindsay and Alex Small-Butera

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About

Lindsay Small-Butera and Alex Small-Butera are two animators known for their web animations, most notably Baman Piderman. They have worked as professional animators for more than a decade, and collaborated with numerous other web animators and creators such as Neil Cicierega, Homestar Runner, Parry Gripp and Worthikids.

History

Alex Butera and Lindsay Small first met as animation students at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.^[1] They began collaborating on animation as students and have continued ever since. They were married in August 2010.^[2]

Baman Piderman

In 2007, Alex created an animation with a crudely drawn Batman and Spider-Man for a school assignment. A year later, it was colored and uploaded to YouTube. Mondo Media, producers of Happy Tree Friends and other web animation, approached Alex with an offer to make Baman Piderman into a show. He accepted and recruited Lindsay as a collaborator. Baman Piderman was an immediate success upon its launch in 2009, with the series amassing over 9 million total views on YouTube as of 2021.^[3]

Other Work

The duo has posted numerous animations to Vine and TikTok. Their most popular TikTok, featuring music by Neil Cicierega and the voice of his daughter Darcy, was posted on January 23rd, 2021, and received over 1.6 million views in seven months.^[4]

Professional Work

In 2015, Lindsay and Alex animated the music video for "Rainbow Connections" by Garfunkel and Oates (shown below).

They started their own production company, dubbed SmallBu Animation, in 2017. Since then, they have worked on numerous animated television shows, including Clarence, Amphibia and Adventure Time, for which Lindsay received an Emmy Award in 2018.^[5]

In 2019, they released the game Later Alligator, an adventure game made by Pillow Fight with entirely hand-drawn animation (seen below).