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Neil Cicierega

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Neil Cicierega (born August 23, 1986), a.k.a. "Trapezoid" and "Lemon Demon", is an Internet personality and artist, who has at times described his occupation as "youthful dipwad". He is the creator of many absurd Flash animations, which became highly popular circa 2001, as well as other animations and his own music (see below), both of which have gained him a small cult following that continued even after his mainstream Internet popularity died down. Cicierega currently lives with his parents and 2 of his siblings in Kingston, Massachusetts, United States.

Animutation

Neil Cicierega is the creator of an original genre of Flash animation, which is widely known as "Animutation". Animutation features random scenes and pictures, frequently influenced by pop culture. These scenes are accompanied by (and are usually in time to) foreign or novelty music, often Japanese. Most of his early run of Animutations use music from the original Japanese version of Pokémon. His style, most famously seen in his 2001 work "Hyakugojyuuichi", has been imitated by other artists on the Internet. These works are known as "fanimutations".

Cicierega's Music

Cicierega has enjoyed some popularity as a musician, writing and performing his own music with the help of music authoring software such as Cakewalk Pro Audio 9. Cicierega says that his music is influenced by They Might Be Giants and similar "geek" bands. His lyrics tend to have a surreal, humorous slant, though he has said he rarely writes songs with "jokish" intentions. He started widespread distribution of his songs under the name of "Trapezoid", and then as "Lemon Demon". Following a notice from an annoyed trademark holder, Trapezoid was posthumously changed to "Deporitaz", though Cicierega is still known to go by the nickname "Trapezoid" or "Trapezzoid" occasionally. Lemon Demon has a website on Cicierega's eviltrailmix.com. Some of his music is available for download there, and he also occasionally posts a link to a new song on his weblog (see link below). A song off of the Damn Skippy album, "Dead Sea Monkeys", was almost featured in the VH1 show "I Love Toys" but canned at the last moment.

Neil Cicierega Discography

as Trapezoid/Deporitaz

  • Microwave This CD (2002)
  • Dimes

as Lemon Demon

  • Clown Circus (2003)
  • Live From The Haunted Candle Shop (2003)
  • Hip to the Javabean (2004)
  • Damn Skippy (2005)
  • Dinosaurchestra (2006) (to be released)

Potter Puppet Pals

Cicierega's most recent projects are vastly different from his normal animutation style. He currently has created two parts in a series named "Potter Puppet Pals," a spoof on Harry Potter with all the characters played by hand puppets. Characters in the cast so far include Harry, Ron, Hermione, Snape, Dumbledore and Voldemort. Episodes so far have focused on simply bothering Snape and on saving the school from Voldemort in a manner not typically used by wizards - namely, automatic weapons. The style is done in the manner of a Punch and Judy show, with the puppets moving around a small area. The puppets are animated using Flash.

He also has made a special tribute to a favorite character, voiced an animated excerpt from one of the Harry Potter books (drawn by his sister), and made an animutation Snape music video, all of which can be seen at the Potter Puppet Pals homepage (see Below).

He and his sister also produce shirts featuring the Potter Puppet Pals.

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

On December 22, 2005, Lemon Demon and Altf4 released the Flash music video The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (often shortened to Ultimate Showdown) on Newgrounds.com. It became the daily feature on December 23, and the weekly user's choice on December 28. The video has since been released on Flash Portal, Albino Blacksheep, Transbuddha, Weebl's Stuff, and eventually its own site at UltimateShowdown.org.

The authors have publicly stated that the aforementioned websites are the only sites they have given permission to display the animation to, which means that its presence on Putfile.com is without consent, and several e-mails have been sent by the authors asking for removal. It has yet to be removed from the site, however, and it is unlikely that it will be.

The video features many famous real and fictional characters in a large fight where only one will survive. Because of the numerous characters and humorous fashion, the video has gained a cult following. This resulted in a significant increase in sales of "Damn Skippy" and "Hip to the Javabean", as Cicierega encountered difficulty meeting the sudden demand. The song itself is set to be included on "Dinosaurchestra", his next album. [1]

List of fighters

This is a list of fighters in the order that they appear in, along with how they died:

Godzilla-Death not mentioned
Batman and the Batmobile-Head crushed by Chuck Norris
Shaquille O'Neal-Death not mentioned
Eric Bauman-Punched by Lowtax Lowtax-Unknown Aaron Carter-Got flattened by the Batmobile
Abraham Lincoln-Hit by a Care Bear Stare
Optimus Prime-Bitten by Godzilla
Jackie Chan-Hit by a Care Bear Stare
Indiana Jones-Kicked in the crotch by Chuck Norris
A Care Bear-Death not mentioned
Samuel L. Jackson ¹ Attacked by the snakes
Various snakes ¹
Mario ¹
Sonic the Hedgehog ¹
Santa Claus ¹ Ran Over By the De Lorean
The De Lorean from Back to the Future ¹
Goku ¹
Lowtax ¹
Eric Bauman of eBaums world dot com¹
Tobias from Arrested Development, painted blue¹
C-3PO ¹
R2-D2 ¹
A Jawa ¹
Chuck Norris-Ass kicked by the below characters
Gandalf the Gray-Death not mentioned
Gandalf the White-Death not mentioned
The Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Benito Mussolini-Death not mentioned
Blue Meanie-Death not mentioned
Cowboy Curtis-Death not mentioned
Jambi the Genie-Death not mentioned
RoboCop-Death not mentioned
The Terminator-Death not mentioned
Captain James T. Kirk-Death not mentioned
Darth Vader-Death not mentioned
Lo Pan-Death not mentioned
Superman
Every single Power Ranger from the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Before the intoduction of the Green Ranger, Tommy)-Death not mentioned
Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure-Death not mentioned
Spock-Death not mentioned
The Rock-Death not mentioned
Doctor Octopus-Death not mentioned
Hulk Hogan-Death not mentioned
Han Solo¹-Frozen in carbonite
Mr. Rogers (winner)
Pac-Man ¹

Note that all fighters, save for Mr. Rogers, all die, regardless of any individual explicit or implicit explanation. Humorously, though Mr. Rogers commits seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment), he survives and actually dances despite the Kill Bill-esque flood of blood.

¹ Fighters that were in the animation, but not mentioned in the lyrics

References

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