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chatretr0 · 4 months
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Have you seen this childhood show: As told by Ginger (2000-2006), United States (English)
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Commentary/Context/Memories: This show made me feel sad sometimes. Not in a bad way, but in like a bittersweet way.
[Mod A: This might have been the only show in this kind of animation art style (by the Klasky Csupo studio at Nickelodeon) that I haven’t seen (since I’ve seen Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys and Rugrats). This show was about a middle schooler (later high schooler) named Ginger Foutley who, with her friends, tries to become “more than a social geek”. Courtney Gripling, the most popular girl in the school, is intrigued by Ginger’s “gingerism” (her odd phrases/habits) and consequently takes interest in Ginger and tries to include her in the social events of the school. Courtney’s right-hand woman, Miranda Killgallen, is jealous of the attention Courtney places on Ginger and works to make sure Ginger does not replace her in the popularity standings (I wonder how well it held up that the Black best friend was more of an antagonist). These character dynamics sounds like a great set up for a rom-com! Everyday after school, Ginger writes about her daily adventures in her diary. The show was nominated for three Emmy awards for Outstanding Animated Program, as the characters actually changed according to the plot arcs, grew up, and changed clothes throughout the show (which was rare for animation at the time as it meant more work, time and money). They also had some quite serious plots: break-ups, bullying, caffeine addictions, concerns about suicidal ideation in students (based on their class work), death, depression, and emergency surgeries. Sounds kind of like an animated Degrassi, very intriguing (makes total sense why it would be bittersweet to watch)!]
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Best of Original Cartoons: Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
FredFilms Postcard Series 3.7
• How a casual web comic became a MAX series.
Don't think that Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake isn't for you.    
Starting as a tossed off web comic by Natasha Allegri –then a storyboard revisionist, now creator/showrunner of Netflix's Bee and PuppyCat– in the summer of 2010, Fionna and Cake starred in some massively popular episodes included in the the original Adventure Time series and then spawned merch, costumes, cosplay and comics.    
Mathematical! A woman had the chance to be the hero of her favorite show.    
It wasn't uncommon to find gender reversed fan fiction in aughts. But of course, Natasha did her fan fic with art that was perfectly on point. Eric Homan,  AT creative executive, put it on our Tumblr and the fandom went nuts.    
Soon enough, Cartoon Network would greenlight an 11-minute one-off and lo and behold, an already hit series had it's most popular episode yet. More followed over the next several seasons and if you happened to be at a comic con women who had been cosplaying other series characters all of a sudden were all over the place as Finn-now-Fionna.   
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KaBOOM! comics knew how popular their Adventure Time was, but they couldn't have anticipated the success of the Natasha written/drawn F&C books. 
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What we have here is a gen-u-ine phenomenon.    
Adam Muto, the showrunner and executive producer of Fionna and Cake, has been with the original Adventure Time series longer than even creator Pendleton Ward. He was Pen's sole Los Angeles co-worker on the original short we produced for Nickelodeon in 2006, went with the show to Cartoon Network in 2009, eventually becoming the creative director. When Pen moved to a consultancy role, Adam became the stellar showrunner, bringing the characters to new and continuing intriguing places. He ran the movie mini-series starring Finn and Jake, Distant Lands, and then took on the leadership of Sam Register's Cartoon Network Studios putting together a full blown F&C series.    
Today, MAX drops the first two episodes of a complete Fionna and Cake cartoon series, cementing Adventure Time's status as a bona fide franchise, the coin of the realm in our streaming world.    
A web comic-to-series success!    
Rhombus!   
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Adventure Time Fionna and Cake Created by Pendleton Ward Original characters by Natasha Allegri
Executive Producers Adam Muto Sam Register, Fred Seibert
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luckyfurby6 · 19 days
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fun fact! a furby tv show was being produced in the 2000s, it never aired and is now lost!
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in 2005 hasbro released the emototronic furbys (aka 2005 furbys) as a improved sequel of the original 1998 furbys. part of the marketing for the 2005 furbys was the movie furby island. a short low budget poorly animated cgi movie that aired on nickelodeon about a young girl discovering an island of furbys and protecting them from the movies villain.
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it was just your average shitty cheap 2000s movie with a generic ass plot however the movie did surprisingly well so a 13 episode nickelodeon series based off the movie began production. the show was made by frederator studios and used the original movie as a pilot
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we don’t know how far into production this show got but due to a mix of declining furby sales and nickelodeon’s new president not approving of the shows pitch, the show got heavily pushed back and eventually canceled. the cancelation was officially announced by an employee on reddit
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this show was destined to fail. even if it was released not many kids cared about the 2005 furby enough to watch it. however i think it’s a really interesting case of lost media and i hope someday more information about this series will be released to the public!!
(gifs used are from the furby island movie: available on youtube!!)
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nickmaghighlights · 9 months
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Nick Mag Highlights - #118 February 2006
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Welcome back to Nick Mag Highlights! Would you believe it: Two of the greatest Nickelodeon shows crossing over in one half-hour special? For the second time? It’s a kid’s dream come true! Again! So let’s read all about it.
So yeah, sorry for the wait on this one. A couple of IRL setbacks plus taking on a volley of different big personal projects at once resulted in quite a hit towards my motivation. But hey, we’re here now, and I’m happy to get back into it.
Little sneak preview while I’m here: One of the things I’ve been working on is a new NMH Side Issue post! One that’s covering a mag that’s ostensibly part of Nickelodeon history thanks to its connection to a very prolific creative figure at the studio. Very wordy book though, so naturally both reading it and my analysis of it is gonna take longer than normal. And then I gotta do the research and fact-checking and yadda yadda, it’ll be ready when it's ready. In the meantime I’ve always got Nickelodeon Magazine to come back to.
Read along if you’d like, I think it’s the cool thing to do!
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Neopets was still Viacom (parent company of Nickelodeon)’s latest big purchase at the time of this mag’s release, with them having bought it eight months earlier back in June of 2005, so it’s not surprising seeing the new blockbuster Neopets thing getting a big ‘ole two page spread right at the beginning of the magazine.
While Neopets is famous for originally being financially supported by scientology, it was Viacom's stint with the brand that actually got me to give the site a try for a short time (thanks to a Burger King promotion of all things, if memory serves me correctly). If they don't delete old, inactive accounts then I hope my T-Rex Neopet has been doing well for itself. They can’t die, right?
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I love this ad. I’m not sure what kind of vibe they were going for here but it almost feels kind of dystopian with the polluted-looking air and all the TV screens weirdly protruding out every which way. Adding to that feeling for me was that I initially thought all that shrubbery down below was a huge audience of adoring viewers. Feels like something out of The Running Man. Super cool.
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Always important to check out what Nickelodeon itself was doing around the time. I remember being really excited for Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, and seeing how it went on to gross more than 5 million viewers, I guess I wasn’t alone. Really bothers me to find out it’s just called Go Hollywood and not Go To Hollywood like I thought it was all these years, but I guess I’ll live.
And speaking of millions of viewers, this section also mentions the then-upcoming SpongeBob SquarePants special “Dunces & Dragons” (oddly not actually referred to here with an actual title), which grossed more than 8 million viewers.
Oh, and it’s Black History Month. Y’know just kind of a footnote slotted in the middle there. You'd think that'd get an article or interview, I don’t know. I’m sure Kyra appreciates the shoutout at least.
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Woah. Imagine living in a pre-High School Musical world. Nowadays High School Musical is the made-for-TV-movie that baby made-for-TV-movies want to grow up to be. Now we’ve got two sequels, a TV spinoff (a TV spinoff that won five Kids’ Choice Awards apparently, funnily enough), and a mountain of films that tried to cash in on that success. Mostly from Disney Channel themselves. Camp Rock, anyone?
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Funny to see the not-Jumanji family classic Zathura listed as Josh Hutcherson’s big recognizable role when he’d end up co-starring in the critically lauded cultural touchstone The Hunger Games just a few years later. And now he’s starring in that Five Nights at Freddy’s movie coming out this year. What a career.
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There’s gotta be some irony to me sitting here and enjoying what I probably called the “boring parts” of the magazine back when I was a kid. C’mon though, this is pretty neat! I’ll run through all the topics real quick if you’d like to learn more.
Notes From Underground - The Great Stalacpipe Organ
Still standing to this day, the instrument has been refurbished a couple times since it was featured in this magazine. In 2012 a band by the name of Pepe Deluxé composed and played the first ever song exclusively for the Stalacpipe Organ, called “In The Cave” and featured it in their album Queen of the Wave. Give it a listen, it’s a creepy kind of beautiful. Must’ve been hard to record, too!
Playing With Their Food - The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
The orchestra is still active and has even done a couple of performances this year! I doubt they still make soup from their instruments though. But to be honest even without having to worry about viral diseases I’m not too interested in soup made exclusively of vegetables that have been blown into for several hours.
Talk About Slow Jamz! - Organ²/ASLSP
Miraculously the performance is still on track. They didn’t play a note this year but the next one is scheduled for February 5th. The second slowest performance of the piece lasted 16 hours and took place last year.
World’s Hottest Tunes - Fire Organs
I can’t really find much about this one online, but I guess it speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
Take a look at a performance and try not to think about how hot it must be in that auditorium whenever he plays that thing.
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Alright, it’s time for a confession. You ready to hear the horrible truth? …Okay, here goes:
I don’t know very much about music.
I guess it was probably a bad choice for me to write about a magazine themed around music. I got pretty far without having to disclose my lack of knowledge though, right? And in my defense, Nickelodeon lured me in with that Jimmy Timmy Power Hour cover. 
And I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like music. I love a bit of jazz now and then*. But still, none of the names here really ring a bell, so I don't know if any of these answers are ironic or out-of-character or so in-character it’s adorable or whatever. At least I can appreciate they spared no expense, they never usually have this many interviews. There’s even a third page with even more of them if you want to check it out. 
*My top jazz favorites are Kim Scott (Spotify) and Pieces Of A Dream (Spotify). If you were curious.
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It’s really cool to see something encouraging kids to make their own mix CDs. I do kinda wish there was more than one cover though. Not everybody wants to chill.
Aw man, come to think of it, is Gen-Z the last generation to do personal mixtapes and CDs? Or is that still a thing? Regardless I kind of wish I had gotten into doing that when I was younger, it seems like a fun thing to do between friends. Plus my knowledge of music would probably be way stronger than it is now. What do kids do nowadays, send each other Spotify playlists? I guess that's a bit more convenient.
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I think I've talked about these Pop-Tart ads before. They were in these magazines all the time so they must’ve come up already. I think I even gave them some credit. But as attention grabbing as they were I really still don't understand the intention. What's so appetizing about seeing these little guys just get absolutely destroyed all the time? Are kids supposed to think about how they’re snuffing the life out of their morning Pop-Tarts?
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A very awesome and adorable cover we have here, courtesy of Vera Brosgol (author and illustrator of the award-winning Anya’s Ghost, plus Head of Story on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio). You can check out her website to see more of her work here.
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Nice little comic by Greg Cook. And wouldn’t you know that guy’s Wikipedia article has Nickelodeon Magazine mentioned in its first sentence? That’s cool. Also I feel like the man himself might’ve written his own Wikipedia article. The lack of citations and the way it’s written like the “About Me” page for a blog gives me that kind of vibe. If so, thanks for remembering us, Greg!
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Now here’s some of that Jimmy-Timmy content I was promised! I was starting to get worried.
I find it interesting how well Jimmy and Timmy bounce off of each other, but I guess now that I think about it their shows weren’t that different really, at least in terms of subject matter, were they? In broad strokes they’re both kids with big egos whose imaginations tend to get them into trouble. And seeing those big egos clash is naturally gonna lend itself to some good comedy.
In regards to the art, I love the warm colors utilized here, it’s very cozy. The art throws me off just a smidge though. Absolutely no disrespect to Scott Roberts of course, writer and penciler behind this comic (and also creator of Patty Cake, a recurring comic for Nickelodeon Magazine that we… haven’t actually encountered yet on this blog unfortunately), he’s got some great work under his belt, and Timmy and his fairies look as to be expected here. But I do think it was a weird choice making Jimmy look like a Rugrat though. That’s not just me, right? The second page in particular has him pulling off some serious Rugrats-faces. Maybe Roberts was just doing what he knows, because he actually did tons of work on a Rugrats newspaper comic strip just a couple years before this.
Aside from that, Jimmy’s lab is a bit weird. It’s not the usual cave, instead being a regular room with windows and a checkerboard floor? And the exterior shows it to be a wooden cabin? Maybe it’s supposed to be the shack that’s built above the lab Jimmy uses as a secret entrance. Doesn’t really matter, I certainly didn’t notice as a kid, but it does make me wonder if the artist wasn’t provided that much reference material.
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I love that snail comic so much like you wouldn’t believe.
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Throughout the years I always managed to miss out on LEGO’s constant edgier reinventions of itself, y’know like Bionicle or that one about the ninjas. I guess it helps that I was never really into the toy itself. Unlike those previous examples though, Exo-Force here isn’t ringing any bells for me, but I do find it noteworthy how they were trying to go for a more anime/gundam vibe with this one, what with the Japanese affixed to the bottom of the logo and the faux-anime designs of all the main characters. Surprised to see this one didn’t even warrant its own cartoon, instead having its epic storyline played out through a series of commercials. And while I may like an overarching commercial narrative as much as the next guy (anyone remember those Goldfish Cracker commercials that did the same thing?), I bet you any fans of this line were sore it never got the whole TV show package like Bionicle did.
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Oh right, Valentine’s Day is in February, isn’t that right? How many more years do you think that holiday has, you reckon? Nobody likes it. It’s just a reason to buy more greeting cards and do nice things for people that you probably should just be doing anyway and not need a holiday to tell you to do. Eh, still though I guess if you were in a small class at school this would be a pretty useful sheet of cards.
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Skyland, huh? Can’t say it rings a bell, but it certainly looks cool. How did this slip by me? I even had this issue as a kid and watched Nicktoons, so I must have just completely tuned it out. I wonder why?
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Oh, that’s interesting, it seems like it's all done with motion captured 3D animation. That’s fine, I guess, but that illustration in the magazine had me thinking it’d look a bit more like The Last Airbender. I’m impressed that they spared no expense on the story at least. This intro here can barely keep down its exposition to forty seconds!
So, does anyone remember this one? Apparently it was a French production that was licensed to different channels across the world, airing on Teletoon in Canada and CITV in the UK. I’d love to know if it was any good!
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Pretty good smorgasbord of facts in this month’s calendar. And I guess a blanket theme is good as any other theme. Ooh, National Pancake Day! What a great month.
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The Jimmy-Timmy quiz is fun, but I wish we could’ve gotten an interview with someone a part of the production of the episode or something. Obviously they’re not going to just interview some random part of the staff (although I’d find that interesting personally), but a voice actor would’ve been cool. I like how Jimmy’s answer considers Sheen a responsibility. Maybe all of Jimmy’s town-threatening inventions were just to distract Sheen from causing any real damage. We all know what kind of terror he’s capable of.
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Wow, Bill Clinton! BC himself! Pretty impressive guest for an issue of Nickelodeon Magazine, I must say. ‘Course they got him talking about eating vegetables and exercising instead of something cool, though. It is good to know that being on the receiving end of the most widely-reported-on gobbling in the United States wasn’t enough to get you disqualified from having a spot in Nick Mag.
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Another neato guest in theory, Tommy Tallarico is a pretty big name in the video game music space. He’s known for having a hand in loads of different soundtracks over the years and also allegedly being a pathological liar and taking credits for lots of other peoples’ work, which isn’t as nice as the former thing I listed. If you’re interested you can check out more info on the topic in this video here by hbomberguy, which basically runs through a lot of the lies Tallarico has told throughout the years, made as a response to him using legal pressure to get a sound effect he claims to have made removed from the online game Roblox. Oof.
But yeah, to give him some credit, this interview is better than ‘ole Clint’s was. At least Tallarico’s talking about the thing he gets paid for instead of vegetables and dieting. And that “What’s on Mario’s iPod” section is pretty good, but considering Tallirco’s track record it makes me question the legitimacy of his answers… I always thought Crash Bandicoot was more of a Dead Or Alive fan.
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Oh god, not QZ again. I did not miss seeing this freak, I’ll tell you that. Why was anyone encouraging this guy with any more questions? He was getting kids names and addresses and we all sat idly by! I like how he sidesteps half the questions too, only giving a direct answer when it concerns protecting a kid from bullies. Maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all…
…Nah. Screw him.
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If you remember these guys, you qualify for an Apple Jack’s discount!
I’m willing to admit as a kid I was more than willing to buy into whatever brands wound up on my TV as long as they had a funky mascot and even funkier commercials (and having a website that sported a suite of Flash games and cartoons certainly helped), but the hijinx of this Rastafarian cinnamon stick and goblin-looking apple particularly stick out to me as some rather memorable marketing. I’d say chalk it up to the distinct claymation style the commercials sported (which I’m pretty sure got replaced with 3D animation at some point, which kinda stinks). I found it funny how the character known as “Bad Apple” here eventually got redeemed and just became a friendly competitor that races Cinnamon to the bowl as opposed to the villain he’s presented as here. Did the marketing team really not see from the get-go that people might have a problem with a commercial depicting cinnamon and sugar as the good guy and apples as, well, “bad”?
Still, as much as I loved the commercials, I never actually had a single bowl of Apple Jacks as a kid. Shocking, I know, but my friends told me they sucked and I remember reading one particularly nasty long-winded online review that basically said the cereal is garbage, so I stayed away. I eventually did have a bowl or two of the stuff many years later, and… they’re alright. I will agree with this comic on one thing, Apple Jacks definitely do not “taste like apples”. In fact, they don’t really taste like anything.
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And that’ll do it for this edition of Nick Mag HIghlights! Thanks for sticking around, and I hope you had a fun time going through this issue with me. It had tons of fun stuff (that article on the strange and interesting instruments and that Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour comic were my personal highlights) and hopefully some of you can get more entertainment out of all those musical interviews than I did. We even got a Billy C cameo! It doesn’t get more engaging than an old president, does it?
As well, I’d like to reiterate my apology for the time it took to bring this to you all, and I’m hopeful I can pick the pace back up and rebuild my motivation now that I’ve gotten this finished. I’m looking forward to finalizing my aforementioned new Nick Mag Side Issues post, I think that’ll be pretty interesting and add a little spice of variety to the page. Guess we’ll see!
Keep on reading, and maybe listen to your favorite song while you’re at it. I’ll catch you next time!
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smashupmashups · 2 years
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I was inspired by that one scene from Once Upon a Deadpool (2018), where Deadpool defends Nickelback with facts after Fred Savage talked smack about it making a point on how the Fox-licensed Marvel franchise is contrasting to the Marvel Cinematic Universe from The Walt Disney Company.
If you don't know who these guys are:
The one with the bald head is Brian Robbins, current president and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon who was the director of Good Burger (1997) and Meet Dave (2008), producer of Big Fat Liar (2002) and Wild Hogs (2007), and was one of the guys of the company Tollin/Robbins Productions with Michael Tollin. As you can see, he's got an 'N' pin on his shirt representing Nickelodeon. Also, Deadpool calling him "Mr. Awesomeness" is a reference to AwesomenessTV, a YouTube channel he founded.
Now, the one with the glasses is Sam Register, current president of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios who was the creator of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004-2006) and The Looney Tunes Show (2011-2014), as well as executive producer of Ben 10 (2005-2008) and Ben 10: Alien Force (2008-2010) prior to his place as president of CN Studios. You'll fins his wearing a pin representing Cartoon Network. Also, Deadpool calls him "Doc" in reference to Looney Tunes' Bugs Bunny since Register's president of WB Animation and creator of The Looney Tunes Show.
The fonts "Eraser" and "DK Crayon Crumble" were used for the chalkboard panel, "Rogue Hero" was used for Deadpool's dialogue, "OPTIBalloonExtraBold" was used for Robbins' dialogue, and "Cartoon Slam" was used for Register's dialogue. This whole comic had taken two days and about eight hours, especially with Deadpool's suit and eyes.
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mi4011malith · 12 days
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My top 3 Animators
Here’s a detailed research of these animators:
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Pendleton Ward
Ward Taylor Pendleton Johnston, known professionally as Pendleton Ward, or simply Pen Ward, is the creator of Adventure Time and the original Animated short, as well as a production designer for Steven Universe. Pendleton Ward currently works for Cartoon Network Studios and Frederator Studios. He was born on September 23, 1982, and grew up in San Antonio, Texas.
In 2002/2003, Pendleton Ward published a webcomic titled Bueno the Bear. He later took down the comics because he thought they were "terrible."[3] However, he retains the name "buenothebear" for his website and his handle on sites like Twitter. Later, Pen created a short for Frederator Studios titled "Barrista" starring Bueno the Bear.
Pen continued to work on short animations for Frederator's Random! Cartoons which aired on Nicktoons. There, he worked with several people who later join him on the Adventure Time series, including composer Casey James Basichis, Adam Muto and Niki Yang. His two shorts were "The Bravest Warriors" and the "Adventure Time" animated short. The "Adventure Time" short was made in 2006 and went on to become an internet phenomenon in 2007, with over 1,000,000 views by November of that year.[4] (Internet searches seem to indicate it first went viral in mid-January 2007, although the original versions of the video on YouTube have since been removed.) Pen pitched Adventure Time as a full series in 2006 or 2007 to Nickelodeon, however, they passed it up for Fanboy & Chum Chum, a CGI animated Television series. It took some time until Cartoon Network decided to pick up the show, which, some fans believe, was better then the show being in the hands of Nickelodeon.
In 2008, Pendleton Ward worked on Cartoon Network's The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (along with JG Quintel, creator of Regular Show) as a writer and storyboard artist. Flapjack was a storyboard-driven show, meaning that the storyboard artists also wrote the episodes, based on an outline. The experience inspired Pen to run Adventure Time the same way, once it was picked up as a series.
Pen became interested in animation at an early age, inspired by his mother, Bettie Ward, who was an artist and worked with animators. He started drawing flipbooks in first grade.
At the Adventure Time panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, made a surprise appearance, telling a story about Pendleton's childhood. His mother brought him to visit his house to get advice on how to be an animator. However, he couldn't remember what advice he had given to him.
Pen attended CalArts, where he became friends with JG Quintel. (They later worked on Flapjack together, and in 2009, Quintel went on to create Regular Show). At a "Producers Show" at CalArts, Pen met Eric Homer from Frederator Studios, which was his first lead in working with Frederator.
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Jonathan Djob Nkondo
He was born in Paris in 1987 and grew up in the suburbs, drawing loads since he was a kid. He was really inspired by cartoons like Dragon Ball Z, Mighty Max, Patlabor, Inspector Gadget, Ulysses 31, the Warner Bros ones and video games like Zelda, TMNT and Mario Bros.
But at some point, his parents decided they wanted him and his siblings to watch less TV, so they got rid of it. There was not much to do and entertain himself with, which led him to start reading a lot of books and comics.
He used to go to the library a lot and copy/draw over those drawings, trying to understand the techniques behind them. He was more curious about characters in general, and one day he just decided to create his own, along with his own stories for them.
But yeah, he read a lot of comics — and very diverse ones. Loads of Belgian ones: the famous ones like TinTin, Spirou, Les 4 As (The 4 Aces), Bone… A lot of mangas as well and, later on, during college, he found out about the American comics like Spider Man, Xmen, Gen 13, Witchblade, Spawn, etc.
He is a big fan of Katsuhiro Otomo. Akira is the first manga heread when he was a kid. He was too young at the time to fully understand the story behind it, but his style blew his mind. He just recently bought the 6 volume set (like 2 years ago) and he’s still impressed by the drawings.
But the story and message have now became more important to him. He thinks the three most impactful mangas he read when he was kid were Akira, Gunnm from Yukito Kishiro and Gon from Masashi Tanaka.
On the “dreamy” comment: well, a lot of my ideas are actually coming from dreams I have.
It’s definitely happened that I dreamt about something and then illustrated it afterwards. I tend to be very conscious when I’m dreaming (sort of lucid dreaming), and I think it’s a good source of inspiration. Often times I feel stuck with an idea or get a hint of a path that could be interesting to develop, so I usually keep that in mind and I kind of unlock those during my sleep.
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Yoneyama Mai
Mai worked at TRIGGER, an anime production company that is highly regarded both in Japan and abroad. There, she was in charge of the animation director for “Kill la Kill” and the character design for “Kiznaiver” and other aspects of the works, and she emerged as a force to be reckoned with. In the 2019 Japanese massive hit animated film “PROMARE”, having played a central role in visual development and other aspects of the work, she has a definite presence in the animation and illustration industry.
Mai has also been remarkably active as an illustrator, such as working on the main visual for the EVANGELION fashion brand “RADIO EVA”. And she held a solo exhibition “SHE” in 2019 and a solo exhibition “EGO” in 2021, her activities as an artist gain momentum.
Her works are characterised by the depiction that you can feel the flow of emotions and movements, which is the result of the fusion of a broad and deep sensibility that includes not only Japanese but also Asian elements, and an expressive ability to convey situations backed by the outstanding skills of an outstanding animator.
“For me, drawing animation is an act that reminds me of the preciousness of the moment. I like the state that is created by extending the moment of a single frame, preparing many of them, and establishing a flow of movement by moving them back and forth, so that all the moments are interacting with each other, so I made it into my work.”
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That image for KUNG FU PANDA One looks a wee bit different, doesn't it? It's the very first publicity pic that got out for the movie, waaaay back in the fall of 2005...
I skimmed through an old article of mine on another site, and I remember the world of upcoming animated movies... In around late 2005... Looking like this.
Yes, it's a random year. No milestone or anything, as 2005 was 18 years ago, rather than 15 or 20... But I thought I'd share this.
This was what was announced as upcoming back then... To give one an idea of what happened and what didn't, and how radically different some studios' slates were:
2006
ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN (Fox/Blue Sky)
THE WILD (Disney/C.O.R.E.)
OVER THE HEDGE (Paramount/DreamWorks)
CARS (Disney/Pixar)
MONSTER HOUSE (Sony/Amblin/ImageMovers)
THE ANT BULLY (WB/DNA/Playtone)
BARNYARD (Paramount/Nickelodeon)
OPEN SEASON (Sony Animation)
RATROPOLIS (Paramount/DreamWorks/Aardman)
HAPPY FEET (WB/Roadshow/Animal Logic/Kennedy Miller)
A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON (Disney Animation)
ARTHUR AND THE MINIMOYS (EuropaCorp)
DELGO (Fathom/Electric Eye)
HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER (Lionsgate/Vanguard)
FOODFIGHT! (Threshold)
2007
TMNT (WB/Imagi)
SHREK 3 (Paramount/DreamWorks)
SURF'S UP (Sony Animation)
RATATOUILLE (Disney/Pixar)
BEOWULF (Paramount/ImageMovers)
BEE MOVIE (Paramount/DreamWorks)
AMERICAN DOG (Disney Animation)
2008
CAT TALE (MGM/Imagi)
KUNG FU GECKO (Egg Story)
KUNG FU PANDA (Paramount/DreamWorks)
MADAGASCAR 2 (Paramount/DreamWorks)
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE (Fox/Gracie Films)
THE SMURFS (Paramount/Nickelodeon)
TOY STORY 3 (Disney/Circle 7)
2009-beyond
FINDING NEMO 2 (Disney/Circle 7)
FRAIDY CAT (Disney Animation)
IT CAME FROM EARTH! (Paramount/DreamWorks)
MONSTERS, INC. 2: LOST IN SCARADISE (Disney/Circle 7)
PUNK FARM (Paramount/DreamWorks)
RAPUNZEL UNBRAIDED (Disney Animation)
REX HAVOC (Paramount/DreamWorks)
RIBBIT (Vanguard)
ROUTE 66 (Paramount/DreamWorks)
SHREK 4 (Paramount/DreamWorks)
UNTITLED SHREK PREQUEL (Paramount/DreamWorks)
And probably a few more that I'm missing, but that's what the landscape looked like back then. It's fascinating to see what didn't make it, what certain films on here later morphed into, and what ended coming out and when...
Shall we dive in? I think I will, briefly...
Most of the 2006 movies made it to their intended release frames, as many of them had trailers out by the end of 2005. After Michael Eisner stepped down as CEO of The Walt Disney Company, his successor Bob Iger bought Pixar, and two of Pixar's top brass - John Lasseter and Ed Catmull - assumed control of Walt Disney Feature Animation, changing the last two words to "Animation Studios". Their "overhaul" of the studio resulted in the delay - and re-titling - of A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON, which became MEET THE ROBINSONS and opened in spring 2007. RATROPOLIS is retitled to FLUSHED AWAY, to avoid possible confusion with RATATOUILLE, so as not to have another ANTZ/BUG'S LIFE, FINDING NEMO/SHARK TALE situation on everybody's hands.
DELGO, infamously, got pushed back multiple times. It was already pushed back several times by that point to begin with, until randomly appearing out of nowhere a little before Christmas 2008. Happy 15th anniversary!
FOODFIGHT!, an even more infamous production, wouldn't be released until 2012 at the earliest after so much went wrong during "production" up until its sale by its completion bond company. We all know the story of that travesty!
2007 also largely stays the same... THE SIMPSONS MOVIE was thought to have been a 2008 release back in 2007, and out of nowhere a teaser for it showed up before ICE AGE 2 and confirmed it was actually coming out in summer 2007, which it did! AMERICAN DOG was to be Chris Sanders' sophomore Disney Animation effort, until Lasseter fired him from the film at the end of 2006, and it would be completely retooled into BOLT, which released in fall 2008.
2008 is where things get interesting... Outside of THE SIMPSONS MOVIE moving up a year, we have a Paramount/Nickelodeon Smurfs movie that was set to kick off a trilogy and had a cast... And curiously, after three Sony-made Smurfs movie, we're getting a Paramount/Nickelodeon Smurfs movie in 2025.
CAT TALE was to be made by Imagi, who of course did the 2007 TMNT movie and the 2009 ASTRO BOY picture. It, too, had a cast and a logo. It was supposed to be about a cat ending up in an all-dog city, playing off of old cats-vs.-dogs tropes. I wonder how much of this thing got quietly transplanted into PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK over the years? That too was a looooong-gestating film.
TOY STORY 3 was not going to be the movie we all know, this was going to be the version that was being made by Circle 7, a studio Disney set up to make sequels to Pixar's films. This was when it looked like Pixar were going to part ways with The Walt Disney Company after their contract was up. Disney had first rights to the movies produced under the contract, and these sequels were a way for big bad Diz to play hardball and get them to renegotiate. Iger threw out this Eisner tactic, and instead offered to simply buy the studio. Pixar took over TOY STORY 3 and made their movie, not what the Circle 7 movie was going to be: Buzz Lightyear being recalled to Taiwan.
Then you have... KUNG FU GECKO... Sharing a year with KUNG FU PANDA. I remember the minor controversy over this one on animation blogs and forums and such back in the day; that DreamWorks were supposedly trying to sabotage this small Singaporean animated film that had a trailer out and everything. (It wasn't rolling in theaters, you had to dig for it online. It was an independent production through and through, and the guy spearheading it had worked for DWA in the past.) But yeah... This thing was real... And it never got made, because its studio (Egg Story) got shuttered. Apparently it was retooled into a TV production, but I've seen no sign of its existence. If it had been made, it would've probably been re-titled.
(Update: Actually... It kinda... Was... Made? As an NFT animated series. Yeeeuch.)
2009 and beyond... DreamWorks had the bulk of the titles here. REX HAVOC, a comic adaptation, would later be retooled into an original story sharing some similarities: MONSTERS VS. ALIENS. IT CAME FROM EARTH! - about aliens dealing with human invaders - never happened, ROUTE 66 - a truly bizarre project about the statues in front of the various local businesses being anthropomorphic - got left behind, animal rock band romp PUNK FARM was later transported to MGM but ultimately went nowhere... SHREK 4 would of course happen, the prequel did not. PUSS IN BOOTS went from straight-to-video affair to theatrical film, and dropped the subtitle THE STORY OF AN OGRE KILLER. Similarly, the Penguins from MADAGASCAR were to get a direct-to-video movie of their own that would later go theatrical.
Circle 7 had a MONSTERS, INC. sequel and a FINDING NEMO sequel ready to go by the end of 2005, with scripts and everything.
RIBBIT was one of many proposed Vanguard Animation movies, after their debut feature VALIANT was released and when HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER was in production. Apparently they still plan to make it, along with like 20 other movies they had wanted to make for years... It's a very weird production company.
Disney Animation's RAPUNZEL UNBRAIDED, of course, got retooled into RAPUNZEL and was given to Glen Keane and Dean Wellins to direct... Until Keane and Wellins stepped down, Lasseter gave the film to Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, the film became TANGLED. This partially explains why it's one of the most expensive animated films ever, Disney got pretty far with test work and other development work for UNBRAIDED. FRAIDY CAT was to be the next Ron Clements-John Musker picture for the studio, but they left as morale got lower and lower before Lasseter and Catmull were put in charge. When they returned to Disney Animation, they were assigned THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, and never looked back on FRAIDY CAT. (It wasn't their concept to begin with.)
Yeah, I just felt like reminiscing about my younger days on the Internet and the first time I caught wind of lists of upcoming movies that I was initially unaware of, lol.
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Here's My Top 10 Favorite Canadian Shows
#10 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
#9 Chuck's Choice
#8 The Adventures of Tintin
#7 Ollie's Pack
#6 The Snoopy Show
#5 Pucca (TV Series) (2006-2008)
#4 Sonic Prime
#3 Bakugan Battle Brawlers
#2 Atomic Puppet
And #1 Hilda
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Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog Belongs To Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, Hirokazu Yasuhara, Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly, Phil Harnage, Kent Butterworth, Shanghai Rainbow Animation, Hong Ying Animation Co., Ltd. Saerom Animation, Inc. TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. Pacific Rim Productions, Inc. Point Animation, SEK Animation Studio, Seoul Movie, DIC Animation City, Inc. DIC Entertainment, L.P. Cookie Jar Entertainment Inc. DHX Media, Ltd. WildBrain Ltd. Sonic Team, SEGA of America, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Bohbot Communications Inc. Italia 1, Mediaset S.p.A. Telecinco, Grupo Audiovisual Mediaset España Comunicación, S.A.U. And MediaForEurope N.V.
Chuck's Choice Belongs To Kervin Faria, Top Draw Animation, Inc. Studio B Productions, Inc. DHX Media Vancouver, WildBrain Studios, WildBrain Ltd. YTV (TV channel), YTV Canada, Inc. And Corus Entertainment Inc.
The Adventures of Tintin (TV series) Belongs To Hergé (characters), Stéphane Bernasconi, Ellipse Programme, Nelvana Enterprises, Inc. France 3, France Télévisions S.A. Global Television Network, CanWest Global Communications Corporation, Shaw Media, Inc. Shaw Communications Inc. Corus Entertainment Inc. HBO, Home Box Office, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, WarnerMedia, & Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Ollie's Pack Belongs To Pedro Eboli, Graham Peterson, Birdo Studio, Nelvana Enterprises Inc. Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Group, Paramount Global Content Distribution, Paramount International Networks, Paramount Domestic Media Networks, Paramount Media Networks, Inc. Paramount Global, YTV (TV channel), YTV Canada, Inc. And Corus Entertainment Inc.
The Snoopy Show Belongs To Charles M. Schulz, Rob Boutilier, Mark Evestaff, Alex Galatis, Peanuts Worldwide LLC, Schulz Studio, Studio B Productions, DHX Studios Vancouver, WildBrain Studios, WildBrain Ltd. Apple TV+ And Apple Inc.
Pucca (TV Series) (2006-2008) Belongs To Boo Kyoung Kim, Calvin Kim, VOOZ Co., Ltd. Studio B Productions, Inc. DHX Media Vancouver, WildBrain Studios, DHX Media, Ltd. WildBrain Ltd. MBC TV (South Korean TV channel), Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Toon Disney, Jetix, Jetix Europe N.V. Disney Branded Television, Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution, Disney General Entertainment Content, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, Disney Entertainment, Disney Enterprises, Inc. And The Walt Disney Company
Sonic Prime Belongs To Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, Hirokazu Yasuhara, Joe Kelly, Joe Casey, Duncan Rouleau, Steven T. Seagle, Jam Filled Entertainment, Boat Rocker Media Inc. Flixzilla Aura, Sonic Team, SEGA of America, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Man of Action Entertainment, WildBrain Studios, WildBrain Ltd. Netflix Animation, And Netflix, Inc.
Bakugan Battle Brawlers Belongs To Mitsuo Hashimoto, Spin Master Entertainment, TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. Dentsu Group Inc. SEGA Toys Co., Ltd. SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. Dream Theatre Pvt. Ltd. Nelvana Enterprises Inc. Odex Pte. Ltd. TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation, TELETOON Canada Inc. And Corus Entertainment Inc.
Atomic Puppet Belongs To Mark Drop, Jerry Leibowitz, Travis Williams, John Derevlany, Brad Birch, Mercury Filmworks, Technicolor Animation Productions, Gaumont Animation, Gaumont Film Company S.A. TELETOON, TELETOON Canada Inc. Corus Entertainment Inc. France 4, France Télévisions S.A. Disney XD, Disney Branded Television, Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution, Disney General Entertainment Content, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, Disney Entertainment, And The Walt Disney Company
Hilda Belongs To Luke Pearson, Mercury Filmworks, Atomic Cartoons Inc. Thunderbird Entertainment Group Inc. Nobrow Press, Flying Eye Books, Silvergate Media Limited, Sony Pictures Television Kids, Sony Pictures Television Studios, Sony Pictures Television Inc. Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, Sony Group Corporation, And Netflix, Inc.
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Beautiful Stories | Urdu Cartoon for Kids | Urdu Stories | Urdu Moral Stories
Greetings from Super Hero TV! This is the world's top children's television show. Niraj Vikram created the Indian animated comedic television series Motu Patlu for Nickelodeon India. Viacom 18 and Cosmos-Maya Studios collaborate to produce the show. [5] It is a modification of the vintage comic strip Lotpot. It debuted on October 16, 2012.
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My Neighbor Was A Teenage Robot Pilot
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Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (2006) - #BobBoyle #WowWowWubbzy! on #Nickelodeon and #TreehouseTV #Nickelodeon2009 ©️ 2006-2009 Bolder Media, Inc. and Starz Media LLC. All Rights Reserved (en Frederator Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjITma1ukLW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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@coolio Grammy-Winning #GangstasParadise Rapper, Dies at 59 Coolio, the Grammy-winning rapper, producer and actor best known for his 1995 hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” has died. He was 59. The rapper’s longtime manager Jarel Posey confirmed the news to Variety, saying that Coolio died around 5 p.m. PT on Wednesday afternoon. According to TMZ, Coolio was found at a friend’s house. Coolio rose to prominence in the Los Angeles rap scene in the ’90s, scoring his big break when he recorded the song “Gangsta’s Paradise” for the 1995 film “Dangerous Minds,” starring Michelle Pfeiffer. It quickly became one of the most popular rap songs of all time, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and ending 1995 as the No. 1 single of that year in the United States. In 1996, “Gangsta’s Paradise” was nominated for record of the year and best rap solo performance at the Grammy Awards, with Coolio winning the latter. The song was soon spoofed by Weird Al Yankovic, who satirized it as “Amish Paradise,” though Coolio was adamant that he did not give Weird Al permission to do so. However, Coolio has said in interviews that the two later made amends. Born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. on Aug. 1, 1963 in Pennsylvania, Coolio later moved to Compton, Calif. where he joined the hip-hop group WC and the Maad Circle in 1991. A few years later, in 1994, Coolio signed with Tommy Boy Records and released his debut album “It Takes a Thief.” Catapulted by its lead single “Fantastic Voyage,” “It Takes a Thief” peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart and was certified platinum. After the success of “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the mid-’90s, Coolio continued to grow in fame and eventually recorded “Aw, Here It Goes!” for the opening sequence of Nickelodeon’s “Kenan & Kel,” which he also appeared in. His third album, “My Soul,” released in 1997 and contained “C U When U Get There,” which hit No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went platinum but didn’t have the same effect as his first two records, and thus became his last record with Tommy Boy. Coolio would go on to release five more studio albums: 2001’s “Coolio.com,” 2002’s “El Cool Magnifico,” 2006’s #Ripcoolio source: @variety (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjEqHtVNdvS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Pendleton Ward
Pendleton Ward is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor who works for Cartoon Network Studios, Frederator Studios and Netflix Animation. He created the Emmy Award-winning series Adventure Time, the Internet series Bravest Warriors, and the adult animated interview series The Midnight Gospel. Ward is a graduate of the CalArts (California Institue of theArts) Animation Program. Ward became interested in animation at an early age, inspired by his mother, who is an artist and worked with animators. He started drawing flipbooks in first grade. Ward attended CalArts, where he became friends with J. G. Quintel and Alex Hirsch. They later worked on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack together. Eric Homan, vice president of Frederator Studios, offered Ward a job at the studios after watching one of his films at the annual CalArts animation screenings. Ward created two shorts called The Bravest Warriors and the Adventure Time animated short. The Adventure Time short was made in 2006 and went on to become an internet phenomenon in 2007, with over a million views by November of that year. Ward initially pitched Adventure Time to Nickelodeon but was rejected. It also took some time before Cartoon Network decided to pick it up. Sometime during the fifth season of Adventure Time, Ward abruptly stepped down from running the show, explaining it was negatively affecting his "quality of life". In the October 2, 2014 edition of the Rolling Stone magazine, Ward stated "I quit because it was driving me nuts". However, he continued to work as one of the show's writers and storyboard artists until the end of season six, and still served as an executive producer up until the series finale. Now Ward had stopped writing episode outlines at the beginning of season 7 but still looked over them and provided input. Now Ward works on an adult animated Netflix original show called The Midnight Gospel, about a guy called Clancy who is a space-caster who uses a multiverse simulator to interview beings living in other worlds.
For this project, I thought there was no better artist than Pendleton Ward to look at. Especially since he has worked as one of my greatest influences for this project which is Adventure Time. When I began this project Adventure Time was one of the first story items I picked. I think this show teaches a lot of lessons to children or to anyone who watches it. Adventure time is a very uplifting happy cosy show to watch. When looking at what it teaches to its viewers I saw bravery, loyalty, doing the right thing, acceptance and tolerance which you may not see directly but let me explain.
Adventure Time takes place on post-apocalyptic Earth where mutations occurred in humans. Everyone has these mutations, so everyone looks different. The entire population is a mix of different shapes, sizes, and colours. The things are, these mutations are not seen as mutations, really, because the people in Adventure Time don't know of a world where anyone was uniform. In the show, people are generally accepted how they are, no matter what "flaws" they may have.
In our time, this can be related to social judgements or prejudices of any kind. These can be based on race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, and more. The acceptance promoted in Adventure Time teaches kids how to accept others around them, no matter if they have qualities that make them different.
Here are the ceramic works I have made influenced by Wards work:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_Ward
https://time.com/66262/adventure-time-season-six-preview/
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/adventure-time-the-trippiest-show-on-television-84180/
https://twitter.com/catsuka/status/1108123185613078528
https://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/11/10/adventure-time-movie-will-happen-when-pendleton-ward-finds-a-premise/
https://www.sacurrent.com/ArtSlut/archives/2019/12/20/netflix-announces-new-animated-series-from-adventure-time-creator-and-san-antonio-native-pendleton-ward
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A Comprehensive List Of TV Shows As Referenced In Weird Al Yankovic's 2003 Song "Couch Potato"
And potential contenders for 'Last TV Show Standing'
(Italics indicates a TV show that concluded before Couch Potato was released, i.e. it was never in the running)
The Flintstones (1960 - 1966)
American Idol (2002 - 2016, 2018 - present)
The Osbournes (2002 - 2005)
Da Ali G Show (2000 - 2004)
Celebrity Mole (2001 - 2008)
The Anna Nicole Show (2002 - 2004)
NASCAR (1960 - present)
Six Feet Under (2001 - 2005)
Larry King Live (1985 - 2010)
24 (2001 - 2010)
Law and Order (1990 - 2010)
60 Minutes (1968 - present)
E! True Hollywood Story (1996 - present)
CSI (2000 - 2015)
Touched by an Angel (1994 - 2003)
Everybody Loves Raymond (1996 - 2005)
The King of Queens (1998 - 2007)
8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter (2002 - 2005)
The Bachelorette (2003 - present)
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 - 1979)
The Muppet Show (1976 - 1981)
Melrose Place (1992 - 1999)
Lost in Space (1965 - 1968)
The Amazing Race (2001 - present)
Without a Trace (2002 - 2009)
Will and Grace (1998 - 2006)
Fear Factor (2001 - 2006)
Survivor (2000 - present)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994 - present)
Gilligan's Island (1964 - 1967)
Spongebob Squarepants (1999 - present)
MacGyver (1985 - 1992)
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (1992 - 2009, 2010 - 2014)
The Drew Carey Show (1995 - 2004)
Entertainment Tonight (1981 - present)
Are You Hot? (2003)
The Sopranos (1999 - 2007)
The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986 - 2011)
Of the shows listed, Spongebob Squarepants is the only fully scripted TV show to survive to the present day without being cancelled - everything else is either a reality show, a celebrity gossip show, news, or televised sport - and also the only cartoon series to merit a mention. Someday it too will finally be cancelled (and presumably at that point Nickelodeon HQ will collapse in upon itself like a black hole) but for now it definitely holds the moral victory. Most fully scripted TV shows of note in 2003 were lucky to make it past 2007.
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RESEARCHING STORYBOARD ARTISTS
in order to talk about storyboarding - I think it’s important to put some names to work; which is what sometimes goes unnoticed in our field - so today I set out to find some story-board artists I like, through their work.
Joseph "Joe" Roland Barbera (March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) 
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an American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, who co-founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera.
Hayao Miyazaki / 宮崎 駿 (January 5, 1941) 
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a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist, who co-founded Studio Ghibli, and has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.
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Elmer Earl "Butch" Hartman IV (January 10, 1965) 
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is an American animator, writer, producer, director, and voice actor; best known for creating Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and Bunsen Is a Beast. 
Jeff "Swampy" Marsh (December 9, 1960) 
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an American animator, writer, director, producer, and voice actor associated with several animated television series, most notably as an executive producer and the voice of Major Monogram for Disney's animated series Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law, 
Marsh has been and continues to be a driving force behind several animation projects, working for over six seasons on the animated television series The Simpsons. Marsh continued to work on other animated television series, including King of the Hill and Rocko's Modern Life, before moving to England in 1996.
Rebecca Rea Sugar (July 9, 1987) 
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an American animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and singer-songwriter. best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, 
Until 2013, Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time. Her work on the two series has earned her seven Primetime Emmy Awardnominations.
Sugar is bisexual and non-binary, using both she/her and they/them pronouns, which has served as the inspiration for her to stress the importance of LGBT representation in art, especially in children's entertainment.
HOW TO GET INTO STORYBOARDING (FOR CHEAP!) - ALEX DAVY
Alex is a storyboard artist for animation and illustrator born in London and living in Newcastle, UK.
Alex trained with Bluezoo in London, completing story tests for Locksmith film studio, and boards on children’s animated TV across 2D, 3D and Stop-motion shows. Alex’s storyboarding style is humour-focused with an emphasis on adding in as many daft character moments as possible. Alex has spoken at most local universities including Newcastle, Sunderland, and Northumbria university.
Alex Woo's Gesture course on @SchoolismLIVE - £20 p/m ish Pixar-In-A-Box on @khanacademy - free! 
2-3 hours Urban sketching (watching people from a cafe window) every weekend - price of a few coffees
4-5 story books recommended from @Tallychyck's list (£40 ish)
Time management! 8pm every night was committed story practice (drawing personal boards or an Alex Woo class mostly) 
Listening to animation podcasts on my lunchbreak Practice 
thumb-nailing out a film on telly, rather than just watching it
subscribing to @thelindsayellis for amazing free film studies essays on your favourite animated movies 
travel to meet inspiring directors or heads of story, face-to-face chats are invaluable! (£150 flight to Bristol for a 3hr chat and portfolio review!)
thumbnail other’s work - storyboard in a notebook in pen. Studying others peoples work who are better than me did SO MUCH to help me see my mistakes! (Obviously dont steal it, this is just for learning!)
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