Brendan Burch


Brendan Burch is an American animation producer and CEO of Six Point Harness Studios in Los Angeles, California. In 2012, Six Point Harness partnered with Titmouse Animation Studios to launch a web channel called Rug Burn.

Early life

Brendan was born in Phoenix, Arizona and grew up in Sacramento, California. He graduated from Oakmont High School in 1996. He attended college at California Institute of the Arts in the Character Animation program, graduating with his BFA in 2000.

Career

At CalArts, Brendan was an early adopter of emerging technology and computer software that helped him land a job in animation immediately upon graduating. He worked at Atom Films as a writer and animator. Brendan then worked as an animation director for Romp Films where he met many of the members who now make up Six Point Harness. Since its beginning in 2003, Six Point has been behind renown TV shows including Nick Jr.'s Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Where My Dogs At? and Good Vibes for MTV to name a few. The studio is a pioneer in the digital space having animated YouTube's It's Fred, Tom Hank's Electric City on Yahoo! and owns and produces the most popular animated show on YouTube, Dick Figures. In July 2012, Dick Figures successfully crowd-funded a on Kickstarter making it the highest grossing animated film project at the time for the site.

Works