Fanboy and Chum Chum

While Fanboy’s “sneak peek” airs tonight, the show falls into its regular Saturday morning timeslot tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.

– Eric

Credits background by Steve Lambe and Chad Woods

Okay. So it’s taken very many people working very hard for a very long time to make Fanboy and Chum Chum. With the premiere just hours away, here’s the list of the men and women who - from Burbank to New York City to India to Taiwan - took part in bringing tonight’s first half-hour of Fanboy to Nickelodeon. A big hats off to all those involved for a job very well done. — Eric

Executive Producer
Fred Seibert

Executive Producer
Steve Tompkins

Created By and
Co-Executive Producer
Eric Robles

“Wizboy”

Written By
Steve Tompkins

Storyboard By
Andy Kelly

Directed By
Jim Schumann

“Trading Day”

Written By
Scott Kreamer

Storyboard By
Niki Yang

Directed By
Brian Sheesley

Supervising Producer
Shaun Cashman

Animation Producer
Therese Trujillo

Animation Producer
Dean Hoff

CG Supervisor
Russ T

CG Supervising Producer
Jason Meier

Animation Supervisor
Martin Leeper

Lighting and Compositing Supervisor
James Davidson

Texture Supervisor
Angela Frame

FX Supervisor
Matt Cawood

Supervising Animator
Michael Franceschi

Production Manager
MacGregor Middleton

CG Production Managers
Kimberly Madore
Blanca Uribe
Sonya Park

Manager Of Digital Production
Eric Swanborg

Production Coordinators
Mani Beil
Kellie Smith

Script Coordinator
Michael Caine

CG Production Coordinators
Danielle Digrado
Ken F. Boyer
Michal Wright-Ward
Ian Murray

Senior Production Assistant
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“Wow. This guy actually gets it!” –Dan Martisen, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon Networks

TELEVISION REVIEW

‘Fanboy and Chum Chum’

In their world, they are superheroes

By ROBERT LLOYD

Television Critic

November 6, 2009

“Fanboy and Chum Chum,” which premieres tonight on Nickelodeon before taking up its regular post Saturday morning, is a cartoon about two kids who live in a permanent state of playing. They dress as superheroes, wearing their underwear on the outside for that Superman look. (They have no out-of-costume alter egos.) Their collective mental landscape is littered with the detritus of sci-fi and fantasy, with the stuff of comics and movies, toys and TV shows. But we don’t see the world as they imagine it, Walter Mitty-style; we just see them in their world, imagining.

That world is strange enough. These are cartoon characters in an askew, cartoon place. Fanboy is shaped sort of like a French fry, with a perfectly flat head that suggests [Read more…]

“Trading Day” Storyboard

Tomorrow night, Friday, November 6, at 9:00 p.m. on Nickelodeon you’ll get your first chance to see a full half-hour episode of Fanboy and Chum Chum (you’ll get another new episode Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m.). Included are two eleven-minute shorts, “Wizboy” and “Trading Day”. We’ve already posted title cards, the storyboard, a bit of the animatic, and designs from the former, but we present now Niki Yang’s storyboard and Scott Kreamer’s script of the latter.

FB 105 Trading Day

– Eric

From “Trading Day”, premiering tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. on Nickelodeon.

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How excited would you be to see your first show advertised in Times Square? If you’re Eric Robles, the answer is very.

This clip is from last week when Eric, Nickelodeon executive-in-charge Megan Casey, and executive producer/story editor Steve Tompkins flew to the Big Apple to sing and dance for the folks at the Nick home office. Here are Megan, Steve, and Eric with executive producer Fred Seibert at the frame-filled Frederator office on South Park Avenue.

Everyone played nice till one of the executive producers demanded Eric rename the lead character Fredboy.

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Episode #118. Artwork by Steve Lambe.

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In what has to be the first Fanboy-related Halloween costume ever, Master Tommy Burleson checked into the Nickelodeon Halloween party on Friday dressed as his hero, Chum Chum, straight down (up?) to the cow-licked hair. Awesome job, Tommy! (And thanks to your mom for the photos.)

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A couple more shots - these courtesy of CG production assistant Dan Garza - of the Fanboy-themed area at Friday’s Halloween party here at Nickelodeon. Thanks, Dan.

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Fanboy and Chum Chum billboard on the Nickelodeon Studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, U.S.A.

– Eric