| Joel Veitch | |
| Other Names: | Crab Bloke, Stallion Explosion |
| Birth Date: | 28 March 1974 |
Joel Veitch (born 28 March 1974) is the showrunner and co-creator of Bad Dinosaurs, a family cartoon on Netflix released on March 28, 2024. He is a British web animator, singer-songwriter, and member of the humour website B3ta. Veitch is owner of the web site RatherGood, where he showcases many of his animations.
Veitch has released 3 albums of music as rathergood.com and an album with his band 7 Seconds Of Love. The rathergood.com albums are only available as digital downloads, while the 7 Seconds of Love is also available physically. Veitch sings and writes on all of these albums.
Several of Veitch's movies, including one featuring a remake of Destiny's Child's Independent Woman by Elbow, are played and sung by kittens, similar to the Crusha adverts which Veitch also created.
Some of Veitch's other movies feature actual songs by artists such as Madonna, with either slightly edited lyrics, and/or with modified subtitles, and always with fitting, and sometimes funny animations.
Veitch is responsible for many adverts and other spots on both British and US TV.
In January 2007, Veitch reached a settlement with Coca-Cola after they used music and video very similar to 7 Seconds of Love's song "Ninja" on one of their adverts in Argentina without permission.[2]
Veitch has received three Webby Awards, a Webby People's Choice Award and a further Webby nomination for rathergood.com.
His film Uncle Wormsley's Christmas was awarded Best Original Score at the Sapporo International Short Film Festival. Uncle Wormsley's Christmas was also nominated for Best Animated Film in the International Film Awards Berlin.