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Fred Seibert
Frederick (Fred) Seibert (born September 15, 1951) is an American television producer, co-founder of MTV and the CEO of FredFilms, an animation production company based in Burbank, California. His official biography states he has led five (working) lives. He has held leading positions with MTV Networks, Hanna-Barbera, Next New Networks, and(founded) Frederator Studios and Networks. Seibert is an angel investor in several technology and media start-ups, has produced live action and animated programs for cable television and the internet, and began his professional career as a jazz and blues record producer. Seibert's work has been honored in numerous fields. In music production his production has been nominated for a Grammy Award, he has received an AIGA Medal for lifetime exceptional achievements, he is a member of the Animation Magazine Hall of Fame and has been awarded several Annie Awards and Emmy Awards for his television productions. Animated cartoons In his time working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidcon
VidCon is an annual convention for fans, creators, executives, and online brands. The event primarily features prominent video stars from across the internet. In October 2020, VidCon Now relaunched as an ongoing, free digital offering. Veteran YouTube creators John and Hank Green ( Vlogbrothers) founded VidCon, which Viacom (now Paramount) later acquired in 2018. Its offices remain in Missoula, Montana, sharing a building with Complexly. VidCon’s international presence continues to expand with additional events planned in Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Mexico City, and São Paulo. History The first VidCon was held on July 9–11, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles and sold out in advance, with over 1,400 people attending. In February 2018, Viacom (owner of the Viacom Media Networks and film studio Paramount Pictures) announced that they were acquiring VidCon, as part of its efforts to expand its live events business and expand from TV programming to n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castlevania (TV Series)
''Castlevania'' is an American adult animated dark fantasy action horror television series made for the streaming service Netflix and is produced by Frederator Studios' Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert. Based on the Japanese video game series of the same name by Konami, the first two seasons adapt the 1989 entry '' Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse'' and follow Trevor Belmont, Alucard and Sypha Belnades as they defend the nation of Wallachia from Dracula and his minions. Additionally, characters and elements from the 2005 entry '' Castlevania: Curse of Darkness'' are featured beginning in the second season, and Alucard's backstory is drawn from '' Castlevania: Symphony of the Night''. The art style is heavily influenced by Japanese animation and Ayami Kojima's artwork. The series was originally planned as a film, developed by producer Kevin Kolde and his company Project 51. He joined Frederator Studios in 2005, and founder Fred Seibert agreed to produce the project there. ... [...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] |
James Kochalka
James Kochalka (born May 26, 1967, in Springfield, Vermont) is an American comic book artist, writer, animator, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka's cartoon expression of the world around him includes such real-life characters as his wife, children, cat, friends and colleagues, but always filtered through his own observations and flights of whimsy. In March 2011 he was declared the cartoonist laureate of Vermont, serving a term of three years. Early life and early career Kochalka grew up in Springfield, Vermont. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and has an MFA in painting. His first published comics work was around 1994. He has cited by cartoonist Daniel Clowes as being a key inspiration in leading him "towards a whole world of comics that enever knew existed." Kochalka strongly believes that simplicity is desirable in comics and says that "craft is the enemy", and has had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Rosenthal
Mike Rosenthal (born June 10, 1977) is a former American football offensive tackle. He played college football at Notre Dame, where he was an All-American. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft, and played nine seasons in the NFL. Early years Rosenthal was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is Jewish. In high school at Penn High School, he was named ''USA Today'' All-America as a senior in Mishawaka, Indiana. He also garnered All-America honors from Parade, SuperPrep, and Blue Chip Illustrated, earning top OL honors nationally by SuperPrep and ranking # 2 by Blue Chip. He was tabbed as Indiana's Gatorade Circle of Champions Player of the Year as a senior. He lettered three times in football, and twice in basketball. College career At Notre Dame he started every game his junior and senior years (*Actually he started all four years), playing G as a junior and T as a senior. As a senior, he was tabbed an All-America by Walter Camp Fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go! Cartoons
''Go! Cartoons'', stylized as ''GO! Cartoons'', is a series of animated shorts produced by Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation. The series premiered on November 7, 2017, with the short ''The Summoning''. It features 12 shorts, airing on VRV and Cartoon Hangover's YouTube channel. ''Go! Cartoons'' is Frederator Studios' sixth cartoon "incubator" series since 1998. Description ''Go! Cartoons'' showcases animated shorts and is designed to find "tomorrow’s cartoon hitmakers". Each cartoon short can act as a pilot, with the most successful cartoons having an opportunity to be produced as a full series on Cartoon Hangover or elsewhere. Several animated television series have started in similar incubator-type formats, including ''Adventure Time'' and ''Bee and PuppyCat''. The project began in 2014 when Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation called for pitches from animators around the world. Twelve five-minute shorts were produced, and one would become a limit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Burnett (writer)
Bill Burnett is an American writer, composer, television producer, singer-songwriter, and actor who is best known for co-creating Nickelodeon's ''ChalkZone'' along with Larry Huber. He is also an accomplished singer/songwriter and the leader of the LA-based band The Backboners. He currently resides in Los Angeles. Career Burnett's earliest career success was working with Patti LuPone and a dozen other significant Broadway talents in 1984 on "Hip Pocket Musicals", the pilot for a series of short musicals produced for PBS. He also starred as political folksinger Phil Ochs in a play (''Small Circle of Friends'') and later a film (''Chords of Fame'') which featured a veritable who's who of 60s activists and protest singers. Lupone also covered "I Regret Everything", a cheeky send-up of Edith Piaf's classic "Je Ne Regret Rien", penned by Burnett and his Hip Pocket writing mate Peggy Sarlin. The song has been covered by over 60 performers around the globe, most notably Bette Midler. Burn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breehn Burns
Breehn Burns is an American screenwriter, director, producer and voice artist, most known for his work on ''Bravest Warriors'' and ''Invader Zim''. Burns was the supervising producer on the 2019 Netflix movie '' Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus''. In 2016, Burns was supervising producer at DreamWorks Animation Television on four seasons of the Netflix series '' Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh''. In 2012, Burns wrote, directed and executive produced two seasons of Pendleton Ward's ''Bravest Warriors'' for Frederator Studios' YouTube channel, Cartoon Hangover. He also wrote the third season of six episodes. He was also an animator on the Nick Jr. show ''Little Bill'' from 1999-2000 It has been announced that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is developing ''Aleister Arcane,'' the 2004 graphic novel created by Steve Niles and Breehn Burns. Jim Carrey has signed on to star and executive produce the movie adaptation with Eli Roth attached to direct. In 2008 Burns collabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanboy & Chum Chum
''Fanboy & Chum Chum'' is an American computer-animated television series created by Eric Robles for Nickelodeon. It is based on ''Fanboy'', an animated short created by Robles for Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Frederator Studios, which was broadcast on ''Random! Cartoons''. The series was first broadcast on October 12, 2009, on Nickelodeon as a preview, then officially premiered on November 6, 2009, after '' SpongeBob's Truth or Square''. In the show, two slow-witted would-be superheroes attempt to rid their town of Galaxy Hills of evil, while annoying everyone around them. The series premiere drew 5.8 million viewers. The second episode was watched by 5.4 million viewers. The series won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program at the 38th Daytime Emmy Awards. The series' initial release finished on November 2, 2012, with one episode, "Brain Freeze," being released only on DVD in 2011, instead of being broadcast until it was finally aired on telev ... [...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] |
Larry Huber
Lawrence "Larry" Huber (born May 6, 1946) is an American television producer, writer, and animator who is known for his long history as a producer at Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and Nickelodeon. Huber began his animation career in 1969 while working on Hanna-Barbera's ''The Perils of Penelope Pitstop''. He went on to work for Ruby-Spears for 15 years. Returning to Hanna-Barbera in 1990, Huber worked on ''2 Stupid Dogs'' and ''Fish Police''. He was hired by Buzz Potamkin to supervise production on Cartoon Network's ''World Premiere Toons'' in 1995. Huber left Hanna-Barbera in 1996 following the company's merger with Turner Broadcasting. Along with Bill Burnett, Huber co-created and executive produced an ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' pilot on Nickelodeon, which would later air as ''ChalkZone'' as a full series. Huber continued his role in animation on ''Random! Cartoons'' and ''Adventure Time'', created by Pendleton Ward originally for Nickelodeon and later greenlit by Cartoon Network, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John R
John R. (born John Richbourg, August 20, 1910 - February 15, 1986) was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame in the 1950s and 1960s for playing rhythm and blues music on Nashville radio station WLAC. He was also a notable record producer and artist manager. Richbourg was arguably the most popular and charismatic of the four announcers at WLAC who showcased popular African-American music in nightly programs from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. (The other three were Gene Nobles, Herman Grizzard, and Bill "Hoss" Allen.) Later rock music disc jockeys, such as Alan Freed and Wolfman Jack, mimicked Richbourg's practice of using speech that simulated African-American street language of the mid-twentieth century. Richbourg's highly stylized approach to on-air presentation of both music and advertising earned him popularity, but it also created identity confusion. Because Richbourg and fellow disc jockey Allen used African-American speech patterns, many listeners thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
