John Achenbach

John Achenbach

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Background layout supervisor Character layout artist Storyboard revisionist Storyboard artist Animatic layout Birth date: October 12, 1964 (1964-10-12) Status: Active Number of episodes: 295 Seasons active: Season 9 - Present First episode: "Bart Star" Most recent episode: "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" Movie: The Simpsons Movie

John Achenbach (born October 12, 1964) is an American animator for The Simpsons. He currently serves as a storyboard revisionist and has also served as a background layout artist, background layout supervisor, character layout artist, storyboard artist and animatic layout artist.

Credits

Background layout artist

• Episode – "Bart Star"
• Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
• Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
• Episode – "Bart Carny"
• Episode – "The Joy of Sect"
• Episode – "Natural Born Kissers"
• Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star"

Background layout supervisor

• Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing"
• Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions"
• Episode – "Girly Edition"
• Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders"

Character designer

• Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders"

Character layout

Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'" Episode – "Faith Off" Episode – "Bart to the Future" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "HOMЯ" Episode – "Pokey Mom" Episode – "Tennis the Menace" Episode – "Simpson Safari" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII" Episode – "Brawl in the Family" Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West" Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain" Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten" Episode – "The Frying Game" Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" Episode – "Pray Anything" Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" Episode – "Today I Am a Clown" Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" Episode – "Midnight Rx" Episode – "There's Something About Marrying" Episode – "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star" Episode – "Dangerous Curves"

Storyboard revisions

Episode – "There's Something About Marrying" Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees" Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI" Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning" Episode – "See Homer Run" Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" Episode – "The Italian Bob" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot" Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies" Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie" Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" Episode – "Regarding Margie" Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII" Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Little Big Girl" Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "Yokel Chords" Episode – "Homerazzi" Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" Episode – "Homer the Whopper" Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" Episode – "The Kid Is All Right" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Steal This Episode" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "The Winter of His Content" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "Days of Future Future" Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" Episode – "Opposites A-Frack" Episode – "Simpsorama" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" Episode – "Bart's New Friend" Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" Episode – "My Fare Lady" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Waiting for Duffman" Episode – "Peeping Mom" Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "Every Man's Dream" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "Puffless" Episode – "Halloween of Horror" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" Episode – "Paths of Glory" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Much Apu About Something" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "Simprovised" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" Episode – "Friends and Family" Episode – "The Town" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" Episode – "Trust but Clarify" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend" Episode – "Dad Behavior" Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "Fatzcarraldo" Episode – "The Cad and the Hat" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "A Father's Watch" Episode – "The Caper Chase" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Dogtown" Episode – "The Serfsons" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "Whistler's Father" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be" Episode – "Singin' in the Lane" Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus" Episode – "Gone Boy" Episode – "Haw-Haw Land" Episode – "Frink Gets Testy" Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Fears of a Clown" Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" Episode – "King Leer" Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Forgive and Regret" Episode – "Left Behind" Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "Bart's Not Dead" Episode – "Heartbreak Hotel" Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" Template:THOH2 Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" Episode – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Daddicus Finch" Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Episode – "101 Mitigations" Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Woo-hoo Dunnit?" Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content" Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" Episode – "The Fat Blue Line" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Livin La Pura Vida" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" Episode – "Hail to the Teeth" Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "Frinkcoin" Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy" Episode – "Screenless" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "Highway to Well" Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part Two"

Couch gag storyboard

• Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
• Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere"
• Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
• Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"

Story artist

• – The Simpsons Movie

Storyboard

Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" Episode – "How the Test Was Won" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Wedding for Disaster" Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" Episode – "Pranks and Greens" Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks" Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Bob Next Door" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "The Blue and the Gray" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony" Episode – "At Long Last Leave" Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl Episode – "Paths of Glory" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"

Animatic layout

Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Book Job" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "At Long Last Leave" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" Episode – "Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda" Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga" Episode – "Moonshine River" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone" Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "To Cur, with Love" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "Changing of the Guardian" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "What Animated Women Want" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Whiskey Business" Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" Episode – "Homerland" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "YOLO" Episode – "Labor Pains" Episode – "Brick Like Me" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"

Additional storyboards

• Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds"

External links

• John Achenbach at the Internet Movie Database

Animatic layout artists and Animatic editors

Former animatic layout artists John Achenbach • Edwin E. Aguilar • Jung A Anderson • Norman P. Auble • Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Lejon Douroux • Jeanne Erickson • Luis Escobar • Jess Espanola • Dante Fabiero • Yelena Geodakyan • Angela Gilman • Matthew Herbert • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Davy Lauterbach • Grant Lee • Ely Lester • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Istvan Majoros • Matt Mantel • James Marquez • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Mike Morris • Mary O. Natale • Rob Oliver • Steve Pilapil • Chance Raspberry • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • Rick Salonga • Matthew Schofield • Ralph Sosa • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee Animatic editors Taylor Allen • Martin Alvarez • Jennifer Dolce • Roger Injarusorn • Sean Isroelit • Monica Lee • Eric Loudon • Heliodoro Salvatierra • Mark Scheib • Rob Schulbaum

Storyboard artists and Storyboard revisionists

Current storyboard artists John Achenbach • Norman P. Auble • Timothy Bailey • Bryan Francis • Eric Koenig • Ben Lane • Matt Mantel • Whitney B. Martin • Steven Dean Moore • Arlyne Ramirez • Stephen Reis • Thomas E. Richner • Jeremy Robinson • Matthew Schofield • Ralph Sosa • Michael Tran Former storyboard artists Brad Ableson • Neil Affleck • Edwin E. Aguilar • Scott Alberts • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Martin Archer • Wes Archer • Bob Arkwright • Peter Avanzino • Carlos Baeza • Orlando Baeza • David Bastian • Rudi Berden • Brad Bird • Tim Burgard • Kent Butterworth • Barry Caldwell • Shaun Cashman • Shawna Cha • Bev Chapman • Chris Clements • Vic Cook • Dave Cunningham • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Susie Dietter • Francis Dinglasan • Ralph Eggleston • John Eng • Mark Ervin • Luis Escobar • Dante Fabiero • Matthew Faughnan • Julia "Fitzy" Fitzmaurice • Steven Fonti • Gavin Freitas • Tricia Garcia • Gary Graham • Lucas Gray • Klay Hall • Colin Heck • Matthew Herbert • Jon Hooper • Mark Howard • Kelly Spencer James • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Mike Kazaleh • Celia Kendrick • Mark Kirkland • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Adam Kuhlman • Grant Lee • Glen Lovell • Greg Lovell • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Steven Markowski • Lila Martinez • John Mathot • Ted Mathot • Drew McPhail • Roy Meurin • Bob Miller • Chris Moeller • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Mike Morris • Erik Moxcey • Raymie Muzquiz • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Kevin O'Brien • Michael O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Dan Povenmire • Jim Reardon • Dexter Reed • John Rice • Jerry Richardson • Christian Roman • Eddie Rosas • David Salvador • David Schwartz • Swinton O. Scott III • Ira Sherak • Shane K. Sowell • Cyndi Tang • Vincenzo Trippetti • William Tucker • Adam Van Wyk • Gregg Vanzo • Jason D. Warnesky • Glen Wuthrich • Tomihiro Yamaguchi Other storyboard artists Dominic Bianchi • Rufino Camacho • Oscar Cervantes • Gus Cosio • Guy Davis • Manny DeGuzman • Shannon Denton • Edmund Fong • Cynthia French • Joshua David Gorczyca • Orlando Gumatay • Joe Healy • Boowan Lee • Will Lee • Mary O. Natale • Lena Podesta • Kaley Powers • Dane Romley • Stephen Sandoval • Cole Shortt • Mike Smith • Tom Smith • Aaron Sowd • Dusty Wakefield • Matt Whitlock • Jung-A Yoo Current storyboard revisionists John Achenbach • Luis Escobar • Ben Lane • Grant Lee • Matt Mantel • Michael Marcantel • Whitney B. Martin • Arlyne Ramirez • Michael Tran Former storyboard revisionists Brad Ableson • Edwin E. Aguilar • Scott Alberts • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Martin Archer • Norman P. Auble • Peter Avanzino • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • David Bastian • Rudi Berden • Oscar Cervantes • Shawna Cha • Bev Chapman • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Christianna Lang Daley • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Susie Dietter • Jeanne Erickson • Mark Ervin • Matthew Faughnan • Gavin Freitas • Tricia Garcia • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Lucas Gray • Ken Harsha • Colin Heck • Chris Huicochea • Kelly Spencer James • Geoffrey Johnson • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Jen Kamerman • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Adam Kuhlman • Greg Lovell • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Bryan Maille • Lila Martinez • John Mathot • Drew McPhail • Bob Miller • Steven Dean Moore • Mike Morris • Raymie Muzquiz • Jeff Myers • Kevin O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Audu Paden • Howy Parkins • Dan Povenmire • Norman Quebedeau • Stephen Reis • Jerry Richardson • Thomas E. Richner • Jeremy Robinson • Christian Roman • Sondra Roy • Matthew Schofield • Ira Sherak • Ralph Sosa • Shane K. Sowell • Ethan Spaulding • Cyndi Tang • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Jason D. Warnesky • JC Wegman • Celia Weiss • Glen Wuthrich Other storyboard revisionists Wincat Alcala • Ivaylo Anguelov • Perfecto Badillo • Young Baek • Rob Bou-Saab • David Boudreau • Kristina Bustamante • Won Ki Cho • Louis C. Gallegos • Mike Kim • Dante Leandado • Joseph Lee • Erik Moxcey • Michael Narren • Debbie Shin • Paul Wee • Stephen Wong • Julius Wu Storyboard assistants Martin Archer • Mark Ervin • Tricia Garcia • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Steven Markowski • Kevin O'Brien • Howy Parkins • John Rice • Bill Riling Storyboard consultants Mike B. Anderson • Jim Reardon • David Silverman Storyboard supervisors Steven Dean Moore • Kevin O'Brien • Christian Roman