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April 2019, Vol. 3

Invader Zim

He is coming back! Are you ready?

Hazbin Hotel Come meet the creator! Learn more on this freelance project

It’s Adventure Time!

Let your imagination fly

Writers

Josh Sathe Rebecca Smeed Tony Miller

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Adventure Time Series of heart! By Josh Sathe

Adventure Time (formerly known as Adventure Time with Finn and Jake) was an American animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and produced by Frederator Studios. The show was based on an original animated short titled “Adventure Time,” which aired on Frederator’s Random! Cartoons show and won an Annie Award for the Best Animated Short Subject of 2009.

The series is about a boy named Finn and his magical shape-shifting dog named Jake, who encounter many strange adventures in the Land of Ooo. In 2010, Cartoon Network picked up the series and it premiered with “sneak peeks” on March 11th and 18th of 2010, followed by the official series premiere on April 5, 2010.

This series is rated TV-PG, with a few re-rated episodes. The series’ last episode was aired on September 3, 2018, concluding Adventure Time with a total of 9 seasons and 283 episodes.

According to a Frederator blog post, Adventure Time was first pitched as a series to Nicktoons Network, which airs most of Frederator, but they passed on it twice. The series can trace its origin back to a seven-minute, stand-alone animated short film of the same name (this short would later be identified as the show’s pilot post facto). Ward created the short almost entirely by himself, and concluded its production in early 2006. It was first broadcast on Nicktoons Network on January 11, 2007, and was re-broadcast as part of Frederator Studios’ anthology show Random!

Cartoons on December 7, 2008. After its initial release, the video became a viral hit on the Internet. Frederator Studios then pitched a series to Nicktoons Network, which rejected it twice.

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Eventually, Nicktoons rights to commission a full series expired, and Frederator the short’s production animation studio pitched it to other channels.

One of the studios that Frederator approached was Cartoon Network, which was interested in producing a full series. However, they would only commit to a deal if Ward could prove that the pilot “wasn’t a one-hit wonder.” Rob Sorcher, the chief content officer at Cartoon Network, was influential in getting the network to take a chance on the show; he recognized the series as “something that felt really indie ... comic book-y [and] new”.

According to Frederator’s vice president Eric Homan. Ward and his college friends Patrick McHale and Adam Muto (the former of whom served as a writer, storyboard artist, and creative director for the show during its first few seasons. The group’s first product was a rough storyboard that featured Finn and Princess Bubblegum going on a spaghetti-supper date. Cartoon Network was not happy with this story, and so Ward, McHale, and Muto created a storyboard for the episode “The Enchiridion!”, which was their attempt to consciously emulate the style of the original Nicktoons short.

Series creator Pendleton Ward has stated that the artistic style is influenced by his time at CalArts and later working as a storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. He tries to include “beautiful” moments like those in Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro. Then he tried some subversive humor, inspired by series like The Simpsons and Pee-wee’s Playhouse. Executive producer Fred Seibert compares the show’s animation style to that of Felix the Cat and the Max Fleischer cartoons but says its world is also equally inspired

by Dungeons and Dragons and video games. Ward intends the show’s world to have a certain physical logic instead of “cartoony slapstick” even though magic exists in the story, the show’s writers try to create an internal consistency in how the characters interact with the world.

Series creator Pendleton Ward has stated that the artistic style is influenced by his time at CalArts and later working as a storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. He tries to include “beautiful” moments like those in Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro. Then he tried some subversive humor, inspired by series like The Simpsons and Pee-wee’s Playhouse.

Ward describes the character Finn as a “fiery little kid” with strong morals, while Jake is based on Bill Murray’s character from the movie Meatballs, as a laid-back man in his twenties who usually jokes around but occasionally gives good advice.

Invader Zim He is back! By Rebecca Smeed

On April 4th, 2017, over sixteen years since the series’ original premiere and eleven years since the last unaired episode was premiered in the US, Nickelodeon officially announced that Invader Zim would be brought back for a made for television original movie. As of now the plot and release date are unknown, but four of the main voice actors are confirmed to be returning. Richard Horvitz as Zim, Rikki Simons as GIR, Andy Berman as Dib, and Melissa Fahn as Gaz. Nick also announced that series creator Jhonen Vasquez would be involved in the project, serving as an executive producer as well

A series that lasted only 4 years, yet it has a huge fanbase. Created

by Jhonen Vasquez and produce by the company Nickoledeon. It was all about an alien named Zim from the planet Irk is sent on a secret mission to conquer Earth, not realising that his leaders were just trying to get rid of him and hoped that he would die. Once there, Zim manages to disguise himself as a human child, but one boy named Dib sees through his disguise. From 2001 to 2004 this alien has stay in the mind of millions, even so that after it was cancelled fans wrote cards to Nickledeon demanding the series to be back on TV. Years past and still nothing... until now!

Hazbin Hotel

A new animated project! Help on Patreon. By Tony Miller

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Hazbin Hotel is an upcoming 2019 comedy/musical adult animated series created by Vivienne Medrano, with music scored by Gooseworx, the Living Tombstone, and songs written by Parry Gripp. The series focuses on Charlie, the princess of Hell, and her quest to open a hotel for rehabilitating demons. Hell suffers from overpopulation and Heaven solves the problem by routinely exterminating demons yearly.

Charlie, who has grown up in Hell, wants to find an alternate solution to the mass slaughter. She opens the Happy Hotel which aims at teaching demons and sinners to become better people. There is substantial resistance though, and Charlie and

her friends must work together to keep the hotel running. Hazbin Hotel creator VivienneMedrano known on the internet as VivziePop has this to say: “Hey you guys!! My name is Vivienne Medrano (AKA VivziePop) and I like to animate cartoons and songs! I am a grad of SVA (School of Visual Arts) in NYC, majoring in traditional animation!

Now I animate films based on the silly characters I keep coming up with! I have also taken to trying to fan animate some songs every now n’ then. Songs that give me inspiration or direct visuals!

As right now Hazbin Hotel is my primary focus I am dedicating most

as reprising his role as Computer. It is currently unknown if there are more voice actors set to return since other castings not been officially released.

The three announcement trailers can be found on YouTube. A little over a year later on June 26, 2018, the movie’s title was announced and that the film would have a panel on July 20th at San Diego Comic-Con. Exclusive behind-the-scenes art and sneak preview footage was released immediately after the panel ended.

The plot is still fuzzy, it is said that it wil be that Zim falls into a depression after he’s abandoned by his idols, the Almighty Tallest, leaving an opening for his enemy Dib to finally expose him as an alien. Kids who watched Invader Zim during its brief run between 2001 and 2002 have had nearly two decades to build up the cartoon.

The goofy sci-fi cartoon developed

of dedicated fanbase because of its surreal, even nihilistic sense of humor.

Invader Zim looked and felt out of place when it premiered in 2001 alongside The Fairly OddParents; it told discomforting stories about an alien wanting to kill all humans, but without sacrificing silliness.

It’s important to remember that we’ve all changed, though, and both our and Vasquez’s tastes have too. Maybe Invader Zim won’t come back as the show it once

was; and maybe that version of the show is the one that Vasquez no longer wants to do. When Enter the Florpus! airs, we could even realize that we’re better off finding the new Zim less than perfect, by our nostalgic standards.

of my efforts and rewards to the project!

What is Hazbin Hotel? And how does funding your Patreon help make it happen?

If you enjoy my work, be it Die Young or Zoophobia you will enjoy Hazbin Hotel, it is a 25 minute animated first episode of a series I have been developing for years! The project will be in my style and will beas fluidly animated as possible, it will include songs and it is actually already WELL underway being boarded! We have over a 3rd of the episode storyboarded and all the money made here on pattern will go towards paying animators in the next stage of production to hopefully get this episode out as soon as possible!

The more animators, the faster it gets finished!

As a Patron you will get sneak peeks into the production of the episode(s) and many more things!”.

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