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David John Firth (born 23 January 1983, in Doncaster) is an English animator, writer, musician, actor, voice actor, filmmaker, video artist and broadcaster. Firth is best known for his surreal online animated series Salad Fingers and for being the co-creator of the viral comedy "CHAV" character, Devvo. As a cartoonist, Firth's work is largely distributed via the internet, most notably through the popular Adobe Flash animation website Newgrounds and his own personal websites such as fat-pie.com. Several of his works in Flash animation, along with multiple music videos and works of video art, have garnered large cult followings. Since the demise of Flash, Firth now mainly uses After Effects. His work is often characterised by its dreamlike atmosphere, disturbing imagery and use of dark comedy.

Animation
Firth's early online animations began with the 'fat-pie series' and Panathinaikos Bear although he found viral success upon the release of his series Salad Fingers, which would blend surrealist horror elements with black comedy. Other popular series include Burnt Face Man, Spoilsbury Toast Boy , Jerry Jackson and the 'Sock' series (which implements a stream of consciousness form of storytelling.)

A number of Firth's works have been featured by the BBC in the UK, and has hired Firth on several occasions which include additions for the BBC Comedy website, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe , That Mitchell and Webb Sound , and a series of Jerry Jackson shorts in 2009. In 2010, he created a new series for the BBC based on a character called Drillbithead. He has also worked on music video animations for the Flying Lotus songs 'Ready Err Not' which premiered on Adult Swim on Halloween night 2014 and 'Fire Is Coming'.

Firth's work often contains a large amount of dark imagery and tends to explore topics of a disturbing or surreal nature, such as depression and mental illness. Firth has stated that it is not his intention to upset or offend. Some of his work may be described as dark humour, while much of it is simply experimental, using many different styles including flash animation and stop-motion.

Filmography
One of Firth's most notable and productive projects has been Devvo. The Devvo series has been described as "a pill-munching, northern scallie that seemed kind of like a documentary.. " but "...far too harrowing and depressing for the main character to ever be real." It is a common misconception that Firth is the actor who plays Devvo. Christian, who provides many of the voices in Firth's cartoons and co-writes the Salad Fingers series, plays the role of Devvo. Firth instead features as the cameraman and occasionally appears alongside Christian as DJ Shady Piez. British television channel E4 produced a series of shorts of the character and in-character singles and albums were officially released.

On May 30, 2017, Firth released his new short film Cream on his YouTube channel. It was produced by Flying Lotus for his production company and record label Brainfeeder. It is sometimes shown as an opening short to Kuso, a surreal horror-comedy-drama movie directed by Flying Lotus. Firth contributed animation, writing, and a voice role to the movie.

In 2018 he released a compilation feature film of his work entitled 'Umbilical World'. Firth continues to post on a regular basis on Fat-Pie.com and YouTube. On March 30, 2017, he created a Patreon page where fans can support his work.

Music
Firth composes electronic music under the pseudonym of Locust Toybox and has released thirteen studio albums to date, most recently When We Implode (2021). Firth is a fan of Aphex Twin, and has used his music in his work including a fan music video for the song "Milkman" from the Girl/Boy EP. Amongst other notable influences are Boards of Canada and Brian Eno. Firth also releases music as Stegosaurus Trap, I'm The Manager, and is a part of English psychedelic pressure-pop band the Grape Digging Sharon Fruits. Most of his music is available as free downloads and have frequently soundtracked his animations.

Voice acting
Firth has voice acted as two of the antagonists in the indie psychological horror game, The Cat Lady, and its sequel, Lorelai. He was also a caller, Radio Doctor, on FlyLo FM, in the action-adventure game, Grand Theft Auto V.

He has also provided voices in episodes of the Welsh online animated series 'The Vale' and the Adult Swim animated television series Smiling Friends.

Other projects
Firth is also the co-host of a long-running comedy podcast entitled Waller FM which is based around a fake regional British radio station.

He also produces physical paintings and artwork as well as streams on Twitch under both his main channel primarily focusing on his work progress and a collaborative side gaming channel, Big Bins.