Fanboy and Chum Chum

The Premiere of the Premiere Promo

eric — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:49:13 +0000

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

– Eric

Thanks to Everyone

eric — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:49:22 +0000

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
Alan Chow

CG Senior Production Assistant
Eileen Flores

CG Production Assistants
Shondalia White
Andrew Golden
Dan Garza
Mercedes Dominguez
Madalynn Rose Sadeghian

Executive Assistant
Mairghread Scott

Production Intern
Lauryn Orozco

“Wizboy”
Starring
Fanboy - David Hornsby
Chum Chum - Nika Futterman
Mr. Mufflin - Jeff Bennett
Kyle - Jamie Kennedy

“Trading Day”
Starring
Fanboy - David Hornsby
Chum Chum - Nika Futterman
Mecha-Tech - Dee Bradley Baker
Yo - Dyana Liu
Boy, Girl - Annie Mumolo
Mr. Mufflin, TV Announcer - Jeff Bennett
Oz - Josh Duhamel

Voice Director
Ginny McSwain

VP of Animation Casting
Sarah Noonan, CSA

Casting Director
Meredith Layne, CSA

Casting Coordinator
Shannon Reed

Casting Assistant
Roxanne Escatel

Supervising Recording Engineer
Justin Brinsfield

Assistant Recording Engineer
Matt Corey

Dialogue Editor
Mishelle Fordham

Storyboard Revisionists
Stephanie Arnett
Octavio Rodriguez

Animatic Supervisor
Steve Downs

Animatic Editors
Adam Arnold
Hugo Morales

Art Director
Chad Woods

Character Designers
Eric Robles
Steve Lambe

Prop Design
Jeremiah Alcorn
Amber Leigh Hardin
Kyle Neswald

Character Color Designer
Christopher Near

Background Layout Designer
Caesar Martinez

Background Color Designers
Patrick Morgan
Muntasir Ali

Lead Technical Director
Ant Ward

Lead Modeler
Joe Alessandra

Lead Generalist
Joe Brogno

Senior Technical Directors
David Taegyu Kim
Jon Finch

Technical Directors
Joy Johnson
Jason Stockton
Nick Puetz
Waleed Boghosian

Senior Generalists
Pooneh Nasrollahnia
Alexander Rial

Generalists
John Cahoon
Harry Sanchez
Steve Tarin
Seiji Tanaka
Ryan Monk

Senior Modelers
Sergio Lorenzo
Vypac Voeur

Modelers
Andrew Bina
Dev Karna
Bailey Monty
Joe Dela Torre
Judith Ferrer
Stephanie Pate
Sam Wey
Emilie Austin
Organes Kharikian

Lead Shader Artist
Anthony Esposito

Lead Texture Artists
Roberto Jauregui
Sonserae Leese-Calver

Texture Artists
Brent Gordon
Candice Stephenson
Elyse Hartey
George Taylor
Eric Mattson
David Palmer
Frida Sahono Jozwik
Suk Choon Yoon
Susan Jones Harris
Bryan Johnson
Dan Della-Penna

Lead Lighting and Compositing Artists
Freddie Vaziri
Jim McLean

Lighting and Compositing Artists
Patrick Krebs
Christina Chiusano
Tobias White
Dan Haring

Lead FX Artist
Justin Andrews

FX Artists
Russell Richardson Jr.
Steve Moore

CG R & D Director
Alfredo Barcia

CG R & D Technical Director
Chris Karlberg

Animators
Erik Kling
Dennis Shelby

Asset Finalers
Tim Hogan
Jessica Brown
Jimmy Robles
Matt McCart

Animation Production Services For “Wizboy”
DQ Entertainment, Ltd. Hyderabad, India

DQE Executive Producer
Tapaas Chakravarti

DQE Vice President – Operations
Vishal Dudeja

DQE Assistant Vice President – Production
Srinivas Katta

DQE Group Production Manager
Prabhakar S.

DQE Production Manager
SP. Balasubramaniam

DQE Creative Head
Chandrasekaran G.

DQE Production Supervisor
Nagesh Babu.P.G.S.

DQE Animation Supervisors
Gaurishankar Behera
Michael Earnest
Ajesh T

Animation Production Services for “Trading Day”
CGCG Inc. Taipei, Taiwan

CGCG Executive In Charge of Production
Ivan Shih

CGCG Production Supervisor
Andy Tsao

CGCG Head of Production
Sareana Sun

CGCG Line Producer
Lucy Shih

CGCG Associate Producer
Meihsin Chen
Chih Min Chang

CGCG Production Assistant
Cheng Che Tsai

Supervising Picture Editor
Jeff Adams

Post Production Supervisor
Molly Minus

Director Of Post Production
Jason Stiff

Post Production Coordinator
Elizabeth Dee Edwards

Additional Post Production Services
Kimberly Bowman
Jonathan Hylander
C.J. Kinyon
J.F. Kinyon
Rohner Segnitz
Amy K. Wu

Music By
Brad Breeck

Main Title Theme Composed By
Brad Breeck

Main Title Theme Performed By
The Mae Shi

Post Production Sound Services
Oracle Post

Supervising Sound Editor
Paulette Lifton

Post Audio Supervisor
Jimmy Lifton

Sound Effects Design
Ian Nyeste

Sound Effects Editor
Lawrence Reyes

Foley Artist
Vincent Guisetti

Foley Editor
Matt Hall

Foley Mixer
Aran Tanchum

Re-Recording Mixers
DJ Lynch
Ian Nyeste

Post Production Services
CCI Digital

Telecine Colorist
Greg Kibler

For Frederator Studios:

Associate Producer
Eric Homan

Supervising Producer
Kevin Kolde

Special Thanks To
Cyma Zarghami
Brown Johnson
Alison Dexter
Mark Taylor
Roland Poindexter
Brian Casentini
Audrey Diehl

Executive In Charge For Nickelodeon
Megan Casey

“Wow. This guy actually gets it!”

fredseibert — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:37:32 +0000

“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 the top of his skull is missing; Chum Chum is a small conglomeration of circles and ovals. Fanboy’s purple cowl and Chum Chum’s mask and tunic recall Batman and Robin; proportionately, they are in the tradition of Quick Draw and Baba Looey, Yogi and Boo Boo. They have pipe-cleaner limbs and flat, floppy fingers, and are pop-eyed as in the works of Ed Roth and Matt Groening, which is a little disturbing in 3-D. By 3-D, I, of course, mean 2-D with the computer-generated illusion of an extra dimension — your standard CGI universe.

I’m no particular fan of computer animation — the drawing often gets lost in technological sameness — but the pointedly nonnaturalistic look of these characters fights those tendencies. And there are particular advantages to it in this context — the special effects seem more special, and the characters’ three-dimensionality separates them existentially from some of the objects of their affection: When they watch television, for example, it looks like a standard hand-drawn cartoon. Still, the line between reality and fantasy is not strictly observed; impossible things happen here. When our heroes meet new student Kyle, who actually is a wizard, expelled from a Hogwarts-like academy “for turning one of my professors into raspberry flan — delicious old fool,” they assume his powers are just elaborate illusions they can equal or top. They love him because they think he likes to play, and he hates them because they think he’s playing.

Created by Eric Robles, with Steve Tompkins (of “The Simpsons,” “The Bernie Mac Show” and Eddie Murphy’s underappreciated puppet-animated “The PJs”), the show — on the evidence of the premiere episode — promises to be sweet-tempered and funny in a way that kids will find funny and adults should enjoy (or at least not mind), though there is not, as sometimes happens in these things, an extra layer of sophistication slipped in for the grown-ups. It is a Saturday morning cartoon, after all: Little here will go over the head of a reasonably aware 10-year-old.

The current eminence of all things Comic-Con makes “Fanboy” quite timely, but though the subject is ripe for satire, the show is animated, as it were, by affection. Ultimately, it’s a show about friendship: Having traded Chum Chum away for a day for the chance to play with a hot new toy, Fanboy realizes what he’s given up: “He’s a snow day when you’ve got a spelling test. He’s the marshmallows in your hot chocolate and the sludge that forms on the bottom. He’s the smell of ham right after you’ve taken it out of the dryer.”

They are not the superheroes of their imagination, but they are the heroes of their cartoon.

robert.lloyd@latimes.com

“Trading Day” Script & Storyboard

eric — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:24:07 +0000

“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

Calling Most MechaTechs!

eric — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:46 +0000

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

– Eric

NYC FanTrip

eric — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:27:47 +0000

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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“Brain Drain” Title Cards

eric — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:59:30 +0000

Episode #118. Artwork by Steve Lambe.

Concept art:

– Eric

All Decked out as Chum Chum

eric — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:24:43 +0000

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.)

And here’s Tommy getting the thumbs-up from the real-life Fanboy (believe me, whatever outfit Eric Robles is wearing, he’s still dressed as Fanboy).

– Eric

Two More Halloween Pictures

eric — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:34:28 +0000

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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Hollywood FanBoard

eric — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:59:28 +0000

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

– Eric