History Creator / BillPlympton

He also did the videos for [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ"]], and there is currently a documentary [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexiaanastasio/adventures-in-plymptoons-a-documentary-on-oscar-no being made about him.]] In addition, he has provided CouchGag sequences for six episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' to date.

* AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark - YMMV. While he is ''very'' fond of senseless violence and throws in ''ToiletHumor'' for the lulz, he doesn't need lame sex jokes - as an independent author, he can show the sex directly, up to plain porn. He was, at one point, dealing with criticisms that all he did was over-the-top sex, violence and vulgarity, which convinced him to do the much more sombre and personal ''Cheatin'.''

* AnimatedMusicVideo: Two for Music/WeirdAlYankovic ("Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ") and one for Music/KanyeWest ("Heard 'Em Say").

* ''Revengance'' (2016)[[note]]Co-created with Jim Lujan[[/note]]

* BlackAndGreyMorality

* AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark - YMMV. While he is ''very'' fond of senseless violence and throws in ''ToiletHumor'' for the lulz, he doesn't need lame sex jokes - as an independent author, he can show the sex directly, up to plain porn.
** He has, however, gotten criticisms that all he does is over-the-top sex, violence and vulgarity, which convinced him to do the much more sombre and personal ''Cheatin'.''

* AndIMustScream: one short features a couple in a romantic embrace. One of them says, "[[ExactWords I wish this moment could last fore--]]" Several seconds later, his eye--and ''only'' his eye--moves, [[NoFourthWall looking at the camera]] in despair...

* {{Troll}} - "Surprise Cinema". It NOT only hurts when you laugh.

He also did the videos for [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic "Don't Download This Song" and "TMZ"]], and there is currently a documentary [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexiaanastasio/adventures-in-plymptoons-a-documentary-on-oscar-no being made about him.]]

* Segment ''H is for Headgame'' in ''{{Film/ABCsOfDeath2}}'' (2014)

* Segment ''H is for Headgame'' in ''{{Film/ABCsOfDeath2}}''

* GreyAndGrayMorality / BlackAndGreyMorality

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Quite on the cynical side but his films do acknowledge the power of love when the story focuses on them.

* CouchGag: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EFbdcObHHSU Did one for]] ''TheSimpsons'', featuring the love between Homer and... [[CargoShip his]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext couch.]] It's [[TearJerker surprisingly sad]].

* LimitedAnimation: Usually shoots on 4s (that's one new drawing every 4 frames) as opposed to 2s or 1s, though it's more an aesthetic choice than a financial one. He ''wants'' you to know that these are drawings.

* ArtStyleDissonance: While he draws most of his shorts and features with a semi-realistic style, Bill's comedy could easily be described as [[XMeetsY Tex Avery filtered through David Cronenberg.]]

* PromotedFanboy: He got to produce and help animate a colorized and voiced update of "The Flying House", the final film of his hero Creator/WinsorMcCay.
** Longtime fan Creator/MattGroening voices Will in ''WesternAnimation/HairHigh.''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill was offered a ''six figure'' deal with Disney to animate for ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'', an offer he very nearly went through with until he was told that the company held intellectual property over anything he created while working for them.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bill was offered a ''six figure'' deal with Disney to animate for ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}'', an offer he very nearly went through will until he was told that the company held intellectual property over anything he created while working for them.

** His earliest films were low-tech even for their day. Backgrounds were often re-drawn on every frame a lá Creator/WinsorMcCay, leading to a number of shorts with characters acting in negative spaces. In the late '80s, his started cutting out his colored-pencil drawings and pasting them onto cels for a much slicker look. This practice continued until the '00s when he began shooting digitally, often alternating between digital ink & paint and digitally composted pencil drawings.

* AdolfHitlarious: His live-action mocumentary ''Hitler's Folly'', which presents and AlternateUniverse in which Hitler aspired not to be a dictator, but run an animation empire a la Creator/WaltDisney. There are many, many jokes paralelling Disney's media empire and the third reich.