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Seth MacFarlane

Seth MacFarlane

4 films · 346 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20082017

Born 26 October 1973 · Kent, Connecticut, USA

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane is an American animator, writer, comedian, producer, actor, singer, voice actor, and director best known for creating the animated sitcoms Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show, for which he also voices many of the shows' various characters.

A native of Kent, Connecticut, MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied animation, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. He was an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera for several television shows, including Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken and Dexter's Laboratory, before creating his own series for 20th Century Fox entitled Family Guy in 1999.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 346 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20082017

  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance2019
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance2017
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance2016
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics2002
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance2000
  • MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo2013
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 346 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Seth takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Seth takes.

Time of day

Day46%
Night35%
Interior17%

Lighting

Natural43%
Low key28%
High key27%

Shot size

Medium62%
Wide18%
Fullbody10%
Closeup8%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
Low angle6%
High angle6%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense12%
Ominous7%
Joyful5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 346 frames from Seth MacFarlane's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.