The Premiere of the Premiere Promo
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
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
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!” –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.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times

Frederator Postcard Series 8.6, mailed November 6, 2009
Perry & Alan Goodman
Photography ©2009, by Elena Seibert. All rights reserved.
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Go see it in the theatre, it’s worth it.
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.
– Eric