Scott Brutz

Scott Brutz

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Character layout artist Animation timer Assistant director Status: Active Number of episodes: 210 Seasons active: Season 1, 6 - Present Short: Plusaversary First episode: "Moaning Lisa" Most recent episode: "Desperately Seeking Lisa"

Scott Brutz is an animator. He currently serves as an animation timer for The Simpsons and has previously served as a character layout artist and was a one time assistant director.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program 2007 "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Nominated 2009 "Gone Maggie Gone" 2015 "Treehouse of Horror XXV" 2021 "The Dad-Feelings Limited" 2022 "Pixelated and Afraid" 2024 "Night of the Living Wage"

Credits

Character layout artist

Episode – "Moaning Lisa" Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" Episode – "'Round Springfield" Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul" Episode – "King-Size Homer" Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" Episode – "Bart on the Road" Episode – "Homerpalooza" Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" Episode – "Homer's Phobia" Episode – "The Canine Mutiny" Episode – "Homer's Enemy" Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" Episode – "Bart Star" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "The Joy of Sect" Episode – "Girly Edition" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze"

Animation timer

Episode – "Missionary: Impossible" Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" Episode – "The Blunder Years" Episode – "She of Little Faith" Episode – "Blame It on Lisa" Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" Episode – "Smart and Smarter" Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" Episode – "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories" Episode – "Million-Dollar Abie" Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats" Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "Papa Don't Leech" Episode – "Dangerous Curves" Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone" Episode – "The Great Wife Hope" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" Episode – "The King of Nice" THOH – "Not It" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again" Episode – "Fan-ily Feud" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" Episode – "The Tipping Point" Episode – "Bart's Brain" Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa" Special – Plusaversary

Additional timer

Episode – "The Parent Rap" Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Episode – "Margical History Tour" Episode – "Catch 'Em If You Can" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV" Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" Episode – "Future-Drama" Episode – "Regarding Margie" Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" Episode – "Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!" Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Wedding for Disaster" Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly" Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure" Episode – "Coming to Homerica" Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada" Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Episode – "The Color Yellow" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Bob Next Door" Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Gone Abie Gone" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "Whiskey Business" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Episode – "My Fare Lady" Episode – "Sky Police" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "Every Man's Dream" Episode – "Halloween of Horror" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "The Burns Cage" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "The Town" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" Episode – "Singin' in the Lane" Episode – "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues" Episode – "Left Behind" Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror" Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" Episode – "Frinkcoin" Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby" Episode – "Warrin' Priests: Part One" Episode – "I, Carumbus" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Wad Goals" Episode – "Burger Kings" Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" Episode – "The Star of the Backstage" Episode – "Boyz N the Highlands" Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher" Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun"

Assistant director

• Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"

Assistant retake director

• Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"

• Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"

Lead animation timer

Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" Episode – "The Great Simpsina" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "A Test Before Trying" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Labor Pains" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Luca$" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" Episode – "Friend with Benefit" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "22 for 30" Episode – "Springfield Splendor" Episode – "Whistler's Father" Episode – "Frink Gets Testy" Episode – "King Leer" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion" Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "Highway to Well" Episode – "The Way of the Dog" Episode – "Podcast News" Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)" Episode – "Pixelated and Afraid" Episode – "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" Episode – "Habeas Tortoise" Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "Top Goon" Episode – "Pin Gal" Episode – "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" Episode – "Iron Marge" Episode – "Murder, She Boat" Episode – "Night of the Living Wage" Episode – "The Yellow Lotus"

External links

• Scott Brutz at the Internet Movie Database

Assistant directors

Current assistant directors Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Manny DeGuzman • Matthew Faughnan • Yelena Geodakyan • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Oscar Pangestu • Dane Romley • Herman Sharaf • Shane K. Sowell • Toni Tysen • Kathy Zielinski Former assistant directors Neil Affleck • Edwin E. Aguilar • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Norman P. Auble • Carlos Baeza • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • David Bastian • David Blum • Scott Brutz • Shaun Cashman • Christianna Lang Daley • Susie Dietter • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Hunilla Fodor • Jonathan Gebhart • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Klay Hall • Mickey Handsome • Matthew Herbert • Sean Hobin • Brian Iles • Jen Kamerman • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Ben Lane • Davy Lauterbach • Grant Lee • Ely Lester • Chris Loudon • Michael Ludy • Richard Manginsay • Michael Marcantel • Tom Mazzocco • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Howy Parkins • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • James Purdum • Alex Que • Jim Reardon • Stephen Reis • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • Alan Smart • Steve Socki • Ralph Sosa • Debbie J. Spafford • Ethan Spaulding • Josh Taback • Cyndi Tang • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee • Thomas Woodall Other assistant directors Colin Heck • Eric Koenig • Drew McPhail • Michael Rundle • Art Seidel • Gregg Vanzo

Animation timers

Current animation timers Bob Anderson • Carlton Batten • Scott Brutz • Acacia Caputo • Ray Claffey • Doug Gallery • Sam Im • Robert Ingram • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Adam Kuhlman • Esther H. Lee • Mike Frank Polcino • Larry Smith • Cyndi Tang Former animation timers Neil Affleck • Scott Alberts • Mike B. Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Jackie Banks • David Bastian • Dean Bauer • Dave Brian • Patrick Buchanan • Rick Bugental • Mark Bykov • Shaun Cashman • George S. Chialtas • Lee Crowe • Eric Daniels • Susie Dietter • Michael Dante DiMartino • Holly du Rivage • Jack Dyer • John Dyer • Mark Ervin • Istvan Fellner • Hunilla Fodor • Sarah Frost • Richard Gasparian • Nichole Graham • Milton Gray • Paul Gruwell • Klay Hall • Younghee Higa • Peter Hixson • Jeff Howard • Ben Jones • Jen Kamerman • Andi Klein • Lance Kramer • William Kulhman • Grant Lee • Jon Lopez • Chris Loudon • Randy Ludensky • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Henry Madden • Michael Marcantel • Tom Mazzocco • Gary McCarver • Jeff McGrath • Emily Michels • Pete Michels • Lee Mishkin • James O'Brien • Howy Parkins • Brenda Piluso • Dominic Polcino • Sherie Pollack • Lindsey Pollard • James Purdum • Thomas E. Richner • Jeremy Robinson • Christian Roman • Brian Sheesley • Chuck Sheetz • Peter Shin • Pat Shinagawa • Alan Smart • Steve Socki • William Tucker • Celeste Williams Other animation timers Jerilyn Sedgewick Blair • Craig Elliott • Sylvia Keulen • Christine Smith Timing directors Neil Affleck • Patrick Buchanan • Ray Claffey • Jack Dyer • Doug Gallery • Richard Gasparian • Peter Hixson • Robert Ingram • Adam Kuhlman • Frank Marino • Maureen Mlynarczyk • Pat Shinagawa • Larry Smith • Steve Socki

Character layout artists

Current character layout artists Jung A Anderson • Michael E. Atniel • Norman P. Auble • Timothy Bailey • Jody Brooks • Oscar Cervantes • Greg Checketts • Joung Kyu Choi • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Manny DeGuzman • Lejon Douroux • Adam Dykstra • Jeanne Erickson • Luis Escobar • Natalie J. Fosdick • Yelena Geodakyan • Steven Pierre Gordon • Colin Heck • Matthew Herbert • Daniela Hoyos • Alexander Jenson • Jeff Johnson • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Tina Kügler • Christianna Lang Daley • Eric Lara • Davy Lauterbach • Ely Lester • Michael Ludy • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Tanja Majerus • Andy Manley • Maeve McGrath • Drew McPhail • Mary O. Natale • Tuan Nguyen • Rob Oliver • Oscar Pangestu • Lena Podesta • Silvia Pompei • Alex Que • Arlyne Ramirez • Nik Ranieri • Thomas E. Richner • Ryan Rivette • Jeremy Robinson • Dustin Romero • Dane Romley • Rick Salonga • Herman Sharaf • Jiyoon Shin • Kamoon Song • Ralph Sosa • Shane K. Sowell • Debbie J. Spafford • Michael Tran • Toni Tysen • Jason D. Warnesky • Paul Wee • Kathy Zielinski Former character layout artists Brad Ableson • John Achenbach • Albert Acosta • Edwin E. Aguilar • Victor E. Almaguer • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Tony Anselmo • John Aoshima • Martin Archer • Craig Armstrong • Stephanie Arnett • Marcos Asprec • Orlando Baeza • Brenda Banks • Tibor Belay • Anthony Bell • John Berado • Sue Bielenberg • Mark Borok • Jeannette Bose • Scott Brutz • Tricia Buchanan-Benson • Rufino Camacho • Nathan Cash • Shaun Cashman • Kendis Chase • Shavonne Cherry • Moon Choi • Utit Choomuang • Craig Clark • Jeff Clark • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Casey Coffey • Mark Colangelo • Pam Cooke • Tom Coppola • Noel Cox • Caroline Cruikshank • Kirin Daughtery • Tim Decker • Gavin Dell • Susie Dietter • Francis Dinglasan • Orlando Distor • Arthur Ebuen • Ernesto Elicanal • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Dante Fabiero • Matthew Faughnan • Istvan Fellner • Bonnie Fishbon • Julia "Fitzy" Fitzmaurice • Hunilla Fodor • Mike Fontanelli • Julie Forte • Sandra Frame • Bryan Francis • Cynthia French • Adriana Galvez • Philip Garcia • Raul Garcia • Tricia Garcia • Frederick J. Gardner III • Jonathan Gebhart • Brett Gehrs • Ed Ghertner • Neal Goldstein • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Roger Gonzales • Joshua David Gorczyca • Gordon Stanfield Animation • Lucas Gray • Orlando Gumatay • Ted Hanik • Mary Hanley • Joe Healy • Lynne Healy • Krystal Hernandez • Seth Hippen • Bill Ho • Jennie Hoffer • James Huang • Chris Huicochea • Brian Iles • Kelly Spencer James • Geoffrey Johnson • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kausler • Seth Kearsley • Ernest Keen • Dean Kelly • Celia Kendrick • Eric S. Keyes • Andy Kim • S.J. Kim • Sooan Kim • Andi Klein • Bert Klein • Julianna Korsborn • Nancy Kruse • Jeff LaFlamme • Ben Lane • Phil Langone • Boowan Lee • Grant Lee • Ashley Lenz • Bob Logan • Jon Lopez • Miguel Lopez • Chris Loudon • Greg Lovell • Matt Luhn • Jeffrey Lynch • Jason Magness • Istvan Majoros • Maryann Malcomb • Anna Maltese • Richard Manginsay • Tammy Manis • Matt Mantel • Michael Marcantel • James Marquez • John Mathot • Ted Mathot • Linda McCall • Gary McCarver • Steve Mealue • Andre Medina • Emily Michels • Pete Michels • Noah Miller • Chris Moeller • Jennifer Moeller • Leo Moran • Jeanette Moreno • Mike Morris • Sarge Morton • Erik Moxcey • Jeff Myers • Kimberly Narsete • Matthew Nastuk • Joey Nilges • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Eduardo Olivares • Eric Oliver • Kenji Ono • Tyler Pagan • Howy Parkins • Sanjay Patel • John Pearson • Jack Perkins • Raymond S. Persi • Jeff Pidgeon • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • Michael Polvani • Teresa Potter-Heimark • Dan Povenmire • Julius Preite • Natasha Presler-Wicke • James Purdum • Chance Raspberry • Bill Recinos • Dexter Reed • Jordan Reichek • Stephen Reis • Jay Robinson • Art Roman • Christian Roman • Eddie Rosas • Sondra Roy • Aaron Rozenfeld • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • David Salvador • Alberto Santiago • Sydney Sata • Matthew Schofield • Andy Schuhler • Melody Severns • Peter Shin • Tony Siruno • Kevin M. Smith • Steve Smith • Ethan Spaulding • Julie Spencer • Eric Stefani • Aimee Steinberger • Jennifer Stillwell • Charlotte Stout • Josh Taback • Betty Tang • Cyndi Tang • Lewis Tate • Noel Taylor • Tommy Tejeda • Gary Terry • Erick T. Tran • Elan Trinidad • Tuck Tucker • Bob Tyler • Brad Vandergrift • Gregg Vanzo • Viorel Voronca • Dusty Wakefield • Mark Watts • JC Wegman • Brian Wells • Tom Winkler • Byun Kwang Won • Anthony Wong • Thomas Woodall • Glen Wuthrich • Tomihiro Yamaguchi • Gary Yap • Jung-A Yoo • Young Yoo • Jordan Young One time character layout artists Scott Alberts • Charles Alleneck • Ed Bell • Brad Bird • Clint Bond • Ian Chen • Kevin Davis • Eric Elder • Marvin Ervin • Brad Forbush • Steve Garcia • Klay Hall • Sam Ho • Jeff Howard • Chris Hubbard • Nora Johnson • Jason Katz • Jang Woo Lee • Derek Lestrange • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Bob Miller • Chris Mitchell • Angel Pastrana • Charles Ragins • Marc Ratner • Christopher Reccardi • Domingo Rivera • Stephen Robertson • Amy Rychlick • Ericka Schwartz • Elaina Scott • Alan Smart • Chad Stewart • Matt Sullivan • Eric Thomas • Janice Tolentino • Arthur Valencia • Jim Van der Keyl • Barry Vodos • Dave Warren • Celia Weiss Other character layout artists Ivaylo Anguelov • David Au • Abe Audish • Matthias Bauer • Wayne Carlisi • Roberto Casale • Kathi Castillo • Rick Farmiloe • Mike Girard • Rick Hoppe • Jay Jackson • Cathy Jones • Megan Kelly • Craig Kemplin • Jiwook Kim • Erik Kuska • Lois Lee • Joseph Lowe • Carlos Lutterbach • Leonardo Matsuda • Frank Molieri • Steven Muller • David Nam • Phillip Pignotti • Chris Rutkowski • David Silverman • Chris Minki Song • Mike Swofford • Derek Thompson • Kurt Vanzo • Franz Vischer • William Waldman