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Amy Winfrey Born 1974 (age 36–37) Occupation Animator, screenwriter, songwriter, voice actress Years active 1997-present Spouse Peter Merryman Website http://www.amywinfrey.com Amy Winfrey is an American animator, screenwriter, songwriter, and voice actress.[1] She is best known for creating the web series Making Fiends that was later picked up by Nickelodeon in 2006.
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Biography
Career
Winfrey studied animation at UCLA and made a 3D film called The Bad Plant, which won her a silver medal at the Student Academy Awards in 2000.[2] At UCLA, Winfrey worked as an animator on South Park during the first and second seasons (though she only did the first five episodes on the second season). She took a break from the school to work full time on the South Park theatrical film.[1] In a UCLA class, Winfrey made a website dedicated to traffic cones.[3] Because of many visitors on the traffic cone website, Winfrey decided to create a series of short web cartoons, and the result was Muffin Films. When the 12 shorts were finished, Winfrey created another series, Big Bunny. In 2003, Winfrey created Making Fiends. Nickelodeon contacted Winfrey in 2004 about possibly bringing Making Fiends to TV.[4] The TV series premiered on October 4, 2008.
Personal life
Winfrey currently resides Los Angeles, California with her husband, Peter Merryman and some "real life fiends", including a pet flounder.[1]
Filmography
South Park
Winfrey worked as an animator on the Comedy Central series South Park in 1997.[1] She also worked on the feature films like, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus versus Frosty, & Jesus versus Santa.
Muffin Films
Winfrey created Muffin Films as a thesis project in 2000. There are twelve cartoons, one for each muffin in a dozen. The series ended in 2003.[1] The series explores different styles of Flash animation in twelve different shorts, using muffins as the subject of the stories, which includes muffins that want to be eaten and those that don't, results of having an excess of muffins or none at all, muffins from outer space, muffins that haunt their devourers, and muffins expressing their angst. To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Muffin Films, Amy Winfrey created six additional cartoons for the series.[5]
Big Bunny
Big Bunny is a Flash cartoon series created by Winfrey while she was a graduate student at UCLA. Winfrey voices all of the characters, except for the bunny who is voiced by Peter Merryman. Big Bunny is a giant, pink, serious bunny with sharp teeth and a loud, deep, booming voice. He is very loquacious and speaks with humorously broken up speech. He likes to seduce children with weird and humorously disturbing stories with anticlimactic endings. Big Bunny wants to eat every living thing in sight, including the children. He doesn't state this outright, but constantly makes insinuations to his gluttonous intentions with emphasized adjectives like "delicious," "yummy," "tender," and "scrumptious" strewn throughout his sentences.[6]
Episode list
Episode # Title Summary Date 1 The Delicious Dog In this episode, Big Bunny meets Suzy, Lulu, and Sam for the first time. Their dog, Muffin, runs into a forest. the children chase him but cannot find him. In the forest, they meet Big Bunny, who tells them a story about the Delicious Dog. After the children leave, Big Bunny pulls out a large tupperware container with the dog inside. 12.30.01 2 Vegetables The friends start out going back into the forest to see Big Bunny. Big Bunny then tells them a story about a turnip that was eaten by a king. The turnip's friends start a revolution and the story ends with vegetables ruling the kingdom. As the children leave, Big Bunny reminds them to eat lots of food and asks them to bring him a cat. 01.04.02 3 Suzy This episode starts out with the friends in the woods greeting Big Bunny with a cat from Ms. Grundimier's front porch. Then, Big Bunny tells them a story about a girl who sells her soul to the devil but eventually repents and goes to heaven. After the story, Big Bunny gives the children gouda to eat. 02.05.02 4 Easter In this episode, Big Bunny tells a story about a blue bird who died and rose from the dead three days later and eats flesh of the living. Big Bunny ends the episode by telling the friends to eat plenty of candy and egg yolks. 03.03.03 5 RED Big Bunny tells the children a story about a "red squirrel," who is actually Big Bunny. He tells of the "squirrel" inviting his enemies to dinner, where he kills them and makes them into pie. He then sends the pie to all who declined his invititation. The episode ends with Big Bunny reminding the children to eat plenty. 04.05.03 6 Ties Big Bunny tells a story about a paper clip who has affairs with a notepad while married to a staple. The episode ends when Big Bunny tells the friends to bring another friend of theirs so there is more kids to listen to his stories. He also tells the friends to eat plenty of butter pats and share them with their friends. 02.05.04 7 Stuffing This final episode starts out with the three friends going into the woods. On their way, they see a sign that reads: "Crusty Pines phase III; coming soon, forest demolition starts tomorrow." The friends jump over the fence to warn Big Bunny his home will be destroyed. Big Bunny then tells a story of the man who bought a jacket. The cashier told him to never put his hand in the left pocket, but one day the man did and the pocket ate his hand. He then returned the jacket in anger and bought a sweater. The episode ends with Big Bunny saying he is moving on to plumper pastures, and asks the children to go with him. Suzy refuses to go and waves them goodbye while stating to eat lots of carrots, stupid bunny. 02.10.04 Making Fiends
Main article: Making Fiends (web cartoon)Winfrey created Making Fiends in 2003 as a web cartoon. The series lasted for 21 episodes between 2003 and 2005. Winfrey voiced several characters, including Charlotte. Nickelodeon contacted Winfrey in early 2004 about bringing Making Fiends on TV. The TV series premiered on October 4, 2008 on Nicktoons Network.
Squid and Frog
In 2008, Winfrey started Squid and Frog, short cartoons about a red squid and an orange frog, who sings about various things, such as that you can't learn surgery from television.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Meet Amy". Making Fiends. http://www.makingfiends.com/fiendlog/meetamy.html. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "27th Annual Student Academy Awards". Student Academy Awards. http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/winners/winners.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "The Traffic Cone Preservation Society". http://www.trafficcone.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "Fiendy History". Making Fiends. http://www.makingfiends.com/fiendlog/history.html. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "Muffin Films". http://www.muffinfilms.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "Big Bunny". http://www.big-bunny.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ^ "Squid and Frog". http://www.squidandfrog.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
External links
- Official website
- Amy Winfrey at the Internet Movie Database
- Muffin Films
- Big Bunny
- Making Fiends
- Squid and Frog
Amy Winfrey Cartoons Making Fiends Other works Muffin Films • Big Bunny • Squid and Frog! • The Bad Plant • I Saw A MonkeyCategories:- American animators
- American voice actors
- American television actors
- American screenwriters
- American songwriters
- Living people
- 1974 births
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