Jim Smith is an American animator and musician, born in Lubbock, Texas. He worked on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures with his long-time working partner John Kricfalusi. Smith later briefly worked on Tiny Toon Adventures, and then along with Kricfalusi, Bob Camp, and Lynne Naylor, he founded Spümcø where he co-created The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Ripping Friends. He is also the one playing the guitar for the Ren and Stimpy theme in the intro. His performance name is Jelly-Roel, Jelly Roll.
A highly-proficient and productive draftsman, Smith rapidly became one of Spümcø's top artists, providing storyboards, layouts and background art for the first season of Ren and Stimpy. Upon Kricfalusi's termination in 1992, Smith would simultaneously depart the show and remain with Spümcø; Smith's direct involvement with the show thereby concluded following his completion of the layouts for the second season episode "Fake Dad", although several of his storyboards, such as "A Visit To Anthony" and "Lair Of The Lummox" would later be placed into production at Games Animation without Smith's involvement. A frequent collaborator of Kricfalusi's throughout the following decade, Smith designed the majority of the primary cast for The Ripping Friends and contributed to the storyboards for "Fire Dogs 2", the third episode of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon".
Episode credits[]
| Ep # | Episode Title | Credit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot | |||
| 0 | Big House Blues | writer animator layout artist designer voice of The Dogcatcher voice of the Narrator | |
| Season 1 | |||
| *He is credited as an art director, background & character designer on every episode. | |||
| 1a | Stimpy's Big Day! | writer (unc.) storyboard artist | |
| 1b | The Big Shot! | writer (unc.) storyboard artist | |
| 3a | Space Madness | storyboard artist | |
| 4b | Fire Dogs | storyboard artist | |
| 5b | Untamed World: A Cartoon | writer storyboard artist | |
| Season 2 | |||
| *He is credited as an layout supervisor & character designer on every episode. | |||
| 8a | Powdered Toast Man | storyboard artist | |
| 9a | Out West | voice of Abner | |
| 10 | Sven Höek | storyboard artist | |
| 11a | Haunted House | writer storyboard artist | |
| 14b | Fake Dad | writer (unc.) director storyboard artist | |
| 17 | A Visit To Anthony | director storyboard artist | |
| Season 3 | |||
| 28 | Lair Of The Lummox | writer (unc.) storyboard artist | |
| Adult Party Cartoon | |||
| 55 | Fire Dogs 2 | writer (premise) storyboard artist | |
His other known work[]
- Defenders of the Earth (1986)
- The Rolling Stones: Harlem Shuffle (1986)
- Björk: I Miss You (1997)
- Mulan (1998)
- The Emperor's New Groove
- Weekend Pussy Hunt
- Samurai Jack
- Ice Age
- Home on the Range
- The X's
- Yoohoo and Friends (2012)