Brendon Small (born February 15, 1975 in Springfield, Illinois) is an American actor, composer, and musician. He is best known as the creator of the animated series Home Movies and Metalocalypse. Small started learning guitar at 15 to assuage boredom after his family moved to Salinas, California. At his first public performance his hands shook so much he had trouble controlling the guitar and it would be another ten years before he was comfortable performing in public.