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Oh Yeah! Cartoons
''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' is an American animated anthology series that aired on Nickelodeon. Created by Fred Seibert, it was produced by Frederator Incorporated and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, running as part of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons lineup. In the show's first season, it was hosted by a variety of schoolchildren, and the second season was hosted by Kenan Thompson of ''All That'' and ''Kenan & Kel'', and later Josh Server of ''All That'' in the third and final season. Bill Burnett composed the show's theme music. In terms of total volume, ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' remains TV's biggest animation development program ever. Giving several dozen filmmakers the opportunity to create 96 seven-minute cartoons, the series eventually yielded three dedicated half-hour spin-off shows produced by Frederator: ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''ChalkZone'', and '' My Life as a Teenage Robot''. Nickelodeon's ''Oh Yeah!'' featured in its first season a total of 39 brand new seven-minute cartoons, surpas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing '' agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicktoons
Nicktoons is a collective name used by Nickelodeon for their original animated series. All Nicktoons are produced partly at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio and list Nickelodeon's parent company (Viacom, now known as Paramount Global) in their copyright bylines. Since its launch in the late 1970s, Nickelodeon's schedule incorporated animation produced by other companies. The channel did not invest into its own original cartoon series until 1989, when producer Vanessa Coffey visited Los Angeles to accept pitches from local animators. Geraldine Laybourne, the channel's then-president, greenlit three pitches for full series: ''Doug'', ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'', and ''Rugrats''. On August 11, 1991, the three cartoons premiered as part of a 90-minute block, becoming the first branded Nicktoons. In contrast to the merchandise-based cartoons that dominated the 1980s animation industry, Vanessa Coffey and Geraldine Laybourne agreed that the Nicktoons should be creator-driven: based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Wasson
David Jerome Wasson (born September 11, 1968) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, producer, writer, and voice actor. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a B.F.A. Wasson created the Cartoon Network original series ''Time Squad'', before going on to develop '' Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' on which he is also a director, writer, and executive producer, and directing and writing on the series '' Mickey Mouse Shorts''. He was the supervising director of '' Making Fiends'' and was the executive producer and director of the series '' The Buzz on Maggie''. He is also the author and illustrator of the children's book ''The Big Ideas of Buster Bickles''. Wasson is currently developer and executive producer of ''The Cuphead Show!'' for Netflix. Career Wasson created the animated series ''Time Squad'' at Cartoon Network. He has co-written, storyboarded, and directed a number of the shorts for the series '' Mickey Mouse Shorts''. Wasson was the super ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Waller
Vincent Paul Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, and technical director. He has worked on several animated television shows and movies, the most notable ones being ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' and ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' Waller was a writer and director for ''The Ren & Stimpy Show'' during the Spümcø era. He directed the episodes " Rubber Nipple Salesmen" and " Big Baby Scam". Other shows Waller produced and directed shorts for Fred Seibert's ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''. He co-created ''What is Funny?'' with Bill Burnett, as well as ''Pete Patrick: Private Investigator'' and ''Let's Talk Turkey''. He also adapted the Harvey Kurtzman comic ''Hey Look!'' into a pilot episode for the series. ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' and other work Waller was a writer for animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' during the last half of the series' first season, leaving after the first season was completed. Walle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Renzetti
Robert John Renzetti is an American animator and author. Renzetti is known for creating '' My Life as a Teenage Robot'' and the '' Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' series '' Mina and the Count'' for Nickelodeon, directing ''Dexter's Laboratory'', ''The Powerpuff Girls'', and ''Samurai Jack'' for Cartoon Network and serving as the animation director of ''Sym-Bionic Titan''. He was also the supervising producer on the Disney Channel animated television series ''Gravity Falls'' and an executive producer on ''Big City Greens''. He most recently served as story editor and co-executive producer on ''Kid Cosmic'' for Netflix and is currently writing his first original novel entitled ''The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things'' to be published by Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Early life Renzetti, born in Chicago and raised in Addison, Illinois, was an art history major at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating from Illinois, Renzetti attended the animatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zac Moncrief
Zachary Thomas "Zac" Moncrief (born January 8, 1971) is an American artist, producer, director and writer in the animation industry. He's currently Co-Executive Producer on NETFLIX's 3D Pre-school series GHEE HAPPY. His titles have included supervising producer, writer, supervising director, storyboard artist, designer and songwriter. In 2009, an episode from ''Phineas and Ferb'', which he directed entitled " The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein", received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the category for Outstanding Special Class Short-format Animated Programs. Personal life Moncrief left Montvale, New Jersey in 1989 after graduating from Pascack Hills High School where his father was the vice principal. Upon completion of high school, he decided to attend California Institute of the Arts, a Disney-funded college specializing in animation. Career Zac Moncrief's career began as an intern on the animated feature, ''The Pagemaster'', and then moved on as an assistant anim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series '' Family Guy'' (since 1999) and '' The Orville'' (since 2017), and co-creator of the television series '' American Dad!'' (since 2005) and ''The Cleveland Show'' (2009–2013). He also wrote, directed, and starred in the films '' Ted'' (2012), its sequel '' Ted 2'' (2015), and ''A Million Ways to Die in the West'' (2014). MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied animation. Recruited to Hollywood, he was an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera for television series including '' Johnny Bravo'', '' Cow and Chicken'', '' Dexter's Laboratory'', and '' Larry & Steve''. He made guest appearances as an actor on television series such as ''Gilmore Girls'', '' The War at Home'', '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', and ''FlashForward''. In 2008, he created the YouTube series '' Seth MacFarla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Marmel
Steven L. Marmel (born December 17, 1964) is an American television writer, producer, and stand-up comedian who has worked on many animated television series, including ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''I Am Weasel'', '' Danny Phantom'', '' Family Guy'' and '' Yin Yang Yo!''. During his work on ''The Fairly OddParents'' he frequently co-wrote episodes with Butch Hartman. Marmel also created the series ''Sonny with a Chance'', ''So Random'' as well as the series '' Mech-X4''. Career Marmel had been a stand-up comedian since the age of 18, and was discovered while performing in 1996 by a Hanna-Barbera executive who thought he'd be ideal as a writer for ''Johnny Bravo''. He has since worked on numerous other shows for Hanna-Barbera, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel, and has been nominated for multiple Emmy and Annie Awards for his work as a writer, producer, and songwriter. Personal life Marmel grew up in Lincolnwood, Illinois and is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butch Hartman
Elmer Earl "Butch" Hartman IV (born January 10, 1965) is an American animator, director, producer, writer, and voice actor. He is most known for creating the Nickelodeon series ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''Danny Phantom'', '' T.U.F.F. Puppy'', and '' Bunsen Is a Beast''. Hartman also owns a production company, Billionfold Inc., which he uses primarily to produce his shows. Hartman was an executive producer on ''The Fairly OddParents'' for the entirety of its 16-year run. On February 8, 2018, Hartman announced in a YouTube video that he had left Nickelodeon on February 2 after having worked at the studio since December 1997; he confirmed that this resulted in the end of production on ''Bunsen Is a Beast'' after one season. His latest animated program, ''The Garden'', premiered in 2019. In 2021, he returned to Nickelodeon to produce a live-action ''Fairly OddParents'' reboot show, '' The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder'', which premiered on Paramount+ on March 31, 2022. Early lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Boyle (animator)
Robert Boyle II (born May 18, 1971) is an American animator, producer, writer, storyboard artist, and director. He is the creator and executive producer of shows ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!'' (Nickelodeon) and ''Yin Yang Yo!'' (Jetix/Toon Disney, now Disney XD). He worked on the Nickelodeon shows ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'', ''The Fairly OddParents'' and ''Danny Phantom''. He wrote and illustrated two children's books: ''Rosie & Rex'' and ''Hugo and the Really, Really, Really Long String''. Boyle won an Emmy Award in 2008 for his Production Design for ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!''. He worked as a supervising producer on the Cartoon Network show, ''Clarence'' during its first season and co-executive producer of ''The Powerpuff Girls ''The Powerpuff Girls'' is an American superhero animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera (later Cartoon Network Studios) for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Telev ...''. Filmography Tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, gag cartoons, storyboards, posters, shirts, books, advertisements, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, webcomics, and video game packaging. Terminology Cartoonists may also be denoted by terms such as comics artist, comic book artist, graphic novel artist or graphic novelist. Ambiguity may arise because "comic book artist" may also refer to the person who only illustrates the comic, and "graphic novelist" may also refer to the person who only writes the script. History The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William Hogarth, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animated Shorts
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits". In the United States, short films were generally termed short subjects from the 1920s into the 1970s when confined to two 35 mm reels or less, and featurettes for a film of three or four reels. "Short" was an abbreviation for either term. The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentation along with a feature film. Short films are often screened at local, national, or international film festivals and made by independent filmmakers with either a low budget or no budget at all. They are usually funded by film grants, nonprofit organizations, sponsor, or personal funds. Short films are generally used for industry experience and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
