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Sheldon Lieberman
he/him
Places of practice

Australia

Australia

Canada

Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Years active

1993-

Metadata
Biography

Sheldon Lieberman is co-founder, composer, writer, peformer and Salmon Head in Monkey Monkey Shake Shake, a Neo-dada, punk, organic, dance, costume explosion goat-liking band. Sheldon created Bigfish in 1993, a design company with a belief that communication should not only deliver a message, it should entertain the audience. Dedicating up to 30% of the company’s resources to it’s own content, Sheldon began experimenting with the quickly growing online medium. Starting in 3D, but quickly moving to 2D because of its speed and web friendliness, Bigfish quickly embraced flash, able to deliver on-line content in small file sizes. Bigfish’s first online series ‘Gefiltefish’ based on Sheldon’s own dysfunctional family was selected at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and began bigfish’s global spread. Using the family’s own voices, the first series was quickly written, badly drawn, terribly acted and had awful audio quality, but still managed to win multiple awards around Australia. Bigfish continually creates work for both clients and itself, balancing a strong work ethic with unique creative invention and a refreshing honesty. The company is known for breaking down the stereotypes of what is considered ‘traditional’ production techniques. Bigfish’s series, ‘Stinky Chicken’ is an irreverent 2d dead chicken who, incorporated in real footage, drives cars, picks up prostitutes and talks to pigeons. Sheldon’s range of personalities are housed within a small body and a huge nose. You can never really tell what form he will take, but you can be assured it will not be something you have seen before. As a film director and producer, his own web series, short films and animations have screened regularly around the world since 2001.

Lone Goat Gallery. “Sheldon Lieberman,” n.d. https://www.lonegoatgallery.com/artists/sheldon-lieberman/biography.

Sheldon's our founder and always believed you can do 'work' like play. 27 years later with everything we've achieved, you'd tend to believe him. He's also an artist at heart, awarded internationally for numerous short animations. Often sighted performing with a large salmon on his head.

BigFish.Tv. “Sheldon Lieberman,” n.d. https://bigfish.tv/contact/sheldon-lieberman.
Filmography
  • Illustration of Teagan looking at a blue bird on her shoulder. Teagan is drawn as pink and has a box bob haircut.

    Teagan

    film/video, 2013

    Director, Composer