Matt Chapman
Matthew "Matt" Alan Chapman (born November 1, 1976) is one half of homestarrunner.com creative duo The Brothers Chaps. Alongside older brother Mike Chapman, he serves as one of the principal creators of the Homestar Runner body of work. Matt is the voice actor for nearly all of the characters on the site.
Career
Education
Matt attended film school at Florida State University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998. His thesis film Perchance was a 15-minute short about the adventures of a boy named Toby and his dog Marmalade.
Pre-Homestar
After graduation, Matt moved back to his native Atlanta but had difficulty finding film work in the city.[18a] Instead, he began working for internet company Earthlink (formerly MindSpring), in customer service and creating icons and banner ads.[14][19]
Homestar Runner
The original Homestar Runner storybook had been co-created by Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel in the summer of 1996. Matt did not contribute to this book, later joking that "I worked in a movie theater that summer and they told me to shut up and to go away. NOW who's shutting up and going away?"[2] Later that year, he and Mike co-created a Mario Paint animation featuring the Homestar characters as a Christmas gift for their older brother Donnie — the first Homestar Runner cartoon.
In 1999, after both brothers had graduated from college, they moved into an apartment together in Atlanta. Wanting to create a project together, and fascinated by the possibilities of Flash animation, they decided on Homestar Runner and launched a site to host their animations in January of 2000.[3]
Matt briefly lived in New York in 2001,[a] recording audio for toons and emailing them to Mike for animation. Strong Bad Email became a weekly feature when he moved back to Georgia in 2002,
