David Firth

David Firth (born 1982 or 1983) is an English animator. He created the Newgrounds animated web series Salad Fingers in 2004 and co-wrote the 2017 live-action feature film Kuso. Early life Firth was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. His mother, Rosemary Firth, is an artist. He began creating stop-motion animation when he was 13 years old, using Lego and other toys. He studied animation at the Hull campus of the University of Lincoln and further studied television and film. Career In July 2004, Firth created the animated web series Salad Fingers, which was released on Newgrounds. The series was created using Adobe Flash, and Firth became a notable figure in the medium of Flash animation. Ten episodes were released from 2004 to 2013, and an eleventh episode was released in 2019. Having accumulated roughly 110 million video views on YouTube as of 2020, the series is considered to have become the subject of a cult following. Since his start on Newgrounds, Firth released several different flash animations, contributed animation to the BBC television series Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, and voiced the character Shrimp in the third episode of the Adult Swim animated series Smiling Friends. Firth also co-created the comedy rapper character MC Devvo, a dimwitted chav performed by his friend Christian Webb, for a series of videos that satirised the music scene of Doncaster's white working class. In 2022, he contributed an animated segment to Justin Roiland's The Paloni Show! Halloween Special on Hulu.