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Amy Winfrey
Occupation Animator, screenwriter, songwriter, voice actress
Years active 1997-present
Spouse(s) Peter Merryman
Official website

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 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.[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]

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

  1. ^ a b c d e "Meet Amy". Making Fiends. http://www.makingfiends.com/fiendlog/meetamy.html. Retrieved 2009-09-12.  
  2. ^ "27th Annual Student Academy Awards". Student Academy Awards. http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/winners/winners.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-12.  
  3. ^ "The Traffic Cone Preservation Society". http://www.trafficcone.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.  
  4. ^ "Fiendy History". Making Fiends. http://www.makingfiends.com/fiendlog/history.html. Retrieved 2009-09-12.  
  5. ^ "Muffin Films". http://www.muffinfilms.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.  
  6. ^ "Big Bunny". http://www.big-bunny.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.  
  7. ^ "Squid and Frog". http://www.squidandfrog.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-12.  

External links

Amy Winfrey Cartoons
Making Fiends
Other works
South Park • Muffin Films • Big Bunny • South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut • Squid and Frog! • The Bad Plant • The Spirit of Christmas


Big Bunny

Big Bunny and it's Main Characters


Big Bunny is a flash animation by Amy Winfrey. The main characters are a girl named Suzy, Big Bunny, Lulu, and Sam. Big Bunny is a large, pink bunny, who has a strange fondness for food word, "The TENDER kitty," "the CRUNCHY children." He also likes to tell short stories. He doesn't use conjunctions, and says "do not you want to hear a story?" He also speaks very phonetically(veggie-tables). Suzy is the eldest of the three children,and is very mistrustful of the Bunny. Lulu is a young girl who believes everything is innocent, and enjoys the Bunny's company. Sam is not very bright, and often wants to do or become things that are mentioned in the Bunny's stories, such as "I want to be a potato," or, "I want to sell my soul."

Characters


Non-Story Characters


Some minor characters that are not in the Bunny's stories are Muffins the dog (Probably a relation to Amy Winfrey's Muffin Films), Mrs. Grubelmeyer, who is Lulu's neighbor, and Mrs. Grubelmeyer's cat, who is given to Big Bunny in episode 2.

Characters only in big Bunny's Stories


The characters mentioned in Big bunny's stories are:
  • The Beautiful Dog, who gets lost in the woods in(Ep.1)
  • The Orange Wolf, who captures the beautiful dog and saves her for later because it wasn't hungry.(Ep.1)
  • The Turnip King, Queen, His Mistress, and Bastard Son.(Ep.2)
  • The Turnip King's subject. (Ep.2)
  • The Farmer(Ep.2)
  • Suzy, a girl, much nicer than the one listening to the story, who sells her soul to the devil.(Ep.3)
  • The Devil, who buys Suzy's soul and gives her a Hellhound.(Ep.3)
  • The Alive Bluebird, who feeds on strawberries(Ep.4)
  • The Undead Bluebird, who feeds on the flesh of the living(Ep.4)
  • An unnamed girl, whose eye was eaten by the undead bluebird.(EP.4)
  • The Red Squirrel, who murders is enemies with his knife-wielding associates and his own butcher knife.(Ep.5)
  • The Red Squirrel's Associates, who help kill Red Squirrel's enemies.(Ep.5)
  • The Red Squirrel's Enemies, most of which are chopped up and baked into a pie during a dinner party, and some of the enemies who did not attend, were sent a piece of pie.(Ep.5)
  • A Handsome Paper-Clip(Ep.6)
  • A Staple who is Paper-Clip's wife(Ep.6)
  • A Passing Legal Pad, who the paper-clip has an affair with(Ep.6)
  • A Man who bought a jacket on sale(Ep.7)
  • A Sales-lady(Ep.7)
  • The Jacket's extremely hungry left pocket.(Ep.7)


    • Episodes

  • Episode 1
  • Episode 2
  • Episode 3
  • Episode 4
  • Episode 5
  • Episode 6
  • Episode 7


    • Voices and Creation


    Big Bunny was created (thought-up, written, drawn, etc.) by Amy Winfrey, who is also the creator of Making Fiends and Muffin films. The voice of the Bunny is Peter Merryman, and all other voices are by Amy herself.

    See Also

  • Making Fiends
  • Muffin Films
  • Amy Winfrey


    • External Links

  • Big Bunny Website
  • Making Fiends
  • Muffin Films











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