August 12, 2026<\/p>\n
Simon Chong got his job on Bob\u2019s Burgers the way most people only fantasize about: he spent seven months secretly building a fan mashup of the show with Archer, posted it, and had a job offer from creator Loren Bouchard within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Two months later, the openly gay animator had sold his flat, left his own animation studio in London, and moved to LA. Now he\u2019s the show\u2019s Supervising Director and a multiple Emmy nominee.<\/p>\n
We talked to him about that leap, what it\u2019s like steering one of animation\u2019s most quietly queer-inclusive shows, and \u2014 because there\u2019s still, somehow, never been an official Bob\u2019s Burgers video game \u2014 what one might actually look like.<\/p>\n
Simon: Honestly, when I lived in Llanberis I was so young, I didn\u2019t really understand what animation was. When I saw Toy Story in the cinema at 10 years old, It clicked that whatever that was, whatever I\u2019d just watched, that\u2019s what I wanted to do. My mother was incredibly encouraging about my creativity as a kid, which made everything feel very attainable. Thanks mum! I didn\u2019t really start learning animation properly until after I left school and started college. They were very early animation classes with not the best software, but they got me going. <\/p>\n
I love animating and I love learning about animation. I was happily running an animation studio in London with my friends, but in my spare time I was, and still am, always animating. I find reverse engineering something to see how it was made completely fascinating, even if I\u2019m dead wrong. I tried animating a crossover of the musical The Book of Mormon in the style of South Park. It was so much fun, and I was proud with what I made. So I set my goals higher and wanted to see if I could imitate Bob\u2019s Burger\u2019s animation style, crossing it over with another TV show, Archer. <\/p>\n
I found dialogue from both shows that sounded like characters were talking to each other and using as much visual reference as I could find, I spent 7 months working nights on this 4 and half minute short. It was only really made to show my company could make TV-quality animation, never for a job. I uploaded the video in July 2017, and 24 hours later, the creator of Bob\u2019s, Loren Bouchard, tweeted me with the words \u201cwould you like a job\u201d. Two months later I\u2019d sold everything I owned, left my company and my apartment to move to LA to work on Bob\u2019s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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