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Edward Duncan Ernest "Edd" Gould (28 October 1988 – 25 March 2012) was a British animator and artist. He is known for being the founder of the media franchise Eddsworld, which focuses on an internet flash animation series by the same name, of which he was the primary creator. Production of the Eddsworld series and various other works were maintained by Gould and his friends Thomas Ridgewell, Matthew Hargreaves, and previously Tord Larsson.

Edward Duncan Ernest Gould was born on 28 October 1988 in Isleworth, in Greater London. Gould presumably attended the Orleans Park Secondary School, (as shown on his first cartoon, titled Edd) and met Matthew Hargreaves on a Sports Day Event. Although at first disliking him, Gould became good friends with Hargreaves upon the departure of his former best friend, (referred simply as) David, and Hargreaves was transferred to Gould's classroom. Gould declared he had a habit of drawing his friends into comics, so he included Hargreaves in what would become Eddsworld. Although first complaining about always getting killed on his early animations, Hargreaves became a prominent part of Eddsworld, but having substantially smaller parts in early animation inspired by the movie Wayne's World based on a popular Saturday Night Live skit.

Gould met Thomas Ridgewell online, shortly after he started making stick animations. Ridgewell was a fan who added him on a messaging service when Gould was making the Bendee series. Ridgewell sent Gould fan art and his work. At about the same way he met Tom, Gould met Tord Larsson online as well, becoming good friends. Ridgewell and Larsson were eventually included in the Eddsworld cast along with Matt, appearing in the 2004 animation Eddsworld Christmas Special 2004, uploaded by TacticalGuest.

In 2002, Gould began animating using the GIF animation program with the purpose of publishing in "sfdt.com". Upon discovering that the mentioned site was no longer accepting GIFs, Gould began watching flash animations. Astonished by the quality improvement, he abandoned the program and moved to Macromedia Flash in November of 2002. After 7 months of learning the basics of Flash Animation from his mentor Lavalle Lee (a flash animator and web designer), Gould published his first Newgrounds entry on 6 June, 2003. Gould went on to create a nine-episode series called Bendee, featuring stick figures. Moving on to full bodied characters, Gould abandoned the Bendee series and characters to focus on his new Eddsworld characters and series, publishing the first official episode on 25 December 2004. He did a crossover in the episeode "Eddsworld Christmas Special 2004" with Bendee's last appearance, uploaded by YouTube user TacticalGuest.

Eddsworld has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.