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Fogel to rave about an episode featur-
ing his clay form fighting Kathie Lee
Gifford's (Stern emerged victorious).
The day after the episode aired, Stern
replayed the fight on his morning syn-
dicated radio show and threw in his
own blow-by-blow analysis of the
bout.
MTV employs 16 in-house anima-

Above: Siskel and Ebert bat-
tle on "Celebrity
Deathmatch." In a recent
episode, Hillary Rodham
Clinton did battle with
Monica Lewinsky.

Right: Eric Fogel: The cre-
ator of "Celebrity
Deat match."

tors to make the matches happen,
using the process of stop-motion ani-
mation, which came into being in the
1950s, thanks to animator Art
Clokey's "The Gumby Show," and
later, his 1962 children's series "Davey
and Goliath."
It's a difficult medium because oil-
based clay melts under studio lights
and becomes grimy when repeatedly
handled. To film a 30-minute episode
of "The Gumby Show," for example,
workers had to move the clay figures
more than 43,000 times, one-eighth
of an inch at a time, photographing
each pose individually.

"It's always been my fantasy to do a
stop-motion animated series," says
Fogel. "It's long hours, it's hard work,
but it's very rewarding. It's fun. I get
to come here and play with toys all
day.
"We're constantly developing and
looking to keep the show growing in
interesting ways," he says. "That has
to do with developing the
characters that are in the
show, as well as [going
beyond] just two guys fight-
ing in a ring. We're looking
to add additional events to
give it more of a feeling of
almost a three-ring circus,
where there's just a whole
lot of stuff going on."
Fogel originally signed
with MTV for a 13-week
series, and "Celebrity
Deathmatch" has just been
picked up for a second sea-
son, says Fogel, who grew
up a self-described "loner,"
the eldest of two children in
a Reform Jewish family.
He became a bar mitzvah
at Temple Emanuel in Long
Beach, N.Y., and says that
Judaism "was important in
our family" That family
includes his father, Martin,
a car-service owner,
and his mother, Irene,
a high school teacher.
When he was
younger, cartoon buff
Fogel made his own
toys out of clay or
papier-mache. He
caught the eye of MTV
executives with his
1991 animated sci-fi
short, "The Mutilator,"
which he made while
still a student in the
film program at New
York University's Tisch
School of the Arts.
The network first hired Fogel for
his animated series "The Head," about
an average guy named Jim and his
friendship with an alien named Roy,
who lives inside his head. That show
ran for two seasons.
As long as MTV wants him
around, Fogel will stay. But after
that, the adult-sized kid wants "to
develop a stop-motion animated fea-
ture geared towards adults. It's some-
thing that I've been working on for
quite a while. Now that the show's
successful, I'll have more time to do
that," he says.

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