Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera

Alex Small-Butera (born January 29, 1986) and Lindsay Caroline Small-Butera (born September 16, 1985), sometimes collectively referred to as SMALLBÜ, are an American husband and wife animating duo. They are best known for creating the long running web series Baman Piderman. They have also famously worked on Adventure Time and helped co-develop the video game Later Alligator.

Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera
Born
Alex Butera
(1986-01-29) January 29, 1986
Lindsay Caroline Small
(1985-09-16) September 16, 1985
Alma materMassachusetts College of Art and Design
OccupationAnimators, Writers, Voice actors
Years active2009-present

Biography

Alex Butera and Lindsay Small met at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. They collaborated on a homework assignment to create a short film for the Ottawa International Animation Festival in Canada. The result was the surreal animated comedy Baman Piderman. The short was released online where it became a hit. Following this, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to have a full web series developed.[1] Mondo Media eventually bought the series for their YouTube channel. Initially, Alex was the sole person working on the shorts, but after showing the third episode to Lindsay, she stated that it was "the worst thing [she] had ever seen." Alex asked her to become the writer for the series. She had refused at first, but since then all of their work had been equally divided between the two. Alex started working on the series WordGirl while Lindsay worked as a designer for Converse before working at Hero4Hire Creative animation.[2]

They did guest work on the long running Cartoon Network series Adventure Time. Lindsay Small-Butera earned an Emmy Award for her work on the episode "Ketchup".[3] In 2019, they helped create the animation for the point-and-click indie game Later Alligator which took "40,000 cels" to animate.[4]

Influences

Alex was influenced by popular anime such as Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop and FLCL, while Lindsay has cited UPA as her source of inspiration along with classic 50's animation.[2]

Filmography
Acting roles
Year Title Alex Lindsay Notes
2009-2015 Baman Piderman Baman / Piderman Wanda Webseries
2013 Story War Goblin / Skywhale Fairy Short film
2017 Here's the Plan Doug Kat Short film
2020 Bigtop Burger Conrad Penny Webseries
Animation roles
Year Title Alex Lindsay Notes
2009-2015 Baman Piderman Yes Yes Alex directed, wrote, composed and edited
Lindsay wrote
2009-2014 WordGirl Yes No Alex also storyboarded
2013 Mappy Yes Yes
Dick Figures Yes Yes Episode: "Snowjob"
Dick Figures: The Movie Yes Yes
The Awesomes Yes No Episode: "The Super-Hero Awards"
Story War Yes Yes Short film; Lindsay directed and wrote
Alex storyboarded
2015 Good Thinking! The Science of Teaching Science Yes Yes
Clarence Yes Yes Episode: "Tuckered Boys"
2016-2017 Adventure Time Yes Yes Episode: "Beyond the Grotto"
Episode: "Ketchup"
2019 Later Alligator Yes Yes Video game
2020 Stinkoman 20X6 Yes Yes Video game, intro only

References
  1. "Alex and Lindsay Small-Butera, Massachusetts College of Art and Design". My Majors. March 1, 2016. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  2. Wood, Roy (February 22, 2011). "Baman and Piderman: They're Best Fwends". Wired. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  3. https://www.emmys.com/bios/lindsay-small-butera
  4. Jones, CS (September 22, 2019). "Later Alligator: A Q&A with the Small-Buteras". WACOM. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
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