Week 2 | Rebecca Sugar (Research) JaTwan Moody

      The artist that I chose to do my research on that uses animation as an important part of their studio practice is going to be Rebecca Sugar. Rebecca Sugar started out as merely just an intern at Cartoon Network studios, working on storyboard art for shows there that were widely popular. One of these shows was the wildly popular Adventure Time on the name of the aforementioned program. She was then gifted the opportunity to work on a show of her own that she had been working on for about 5 years at this point, and she used this time to craft her plot, character designs and music surrounding the show. She based her project (titled Steven Universe) on her little brother who went by the same name, Steven. Steven Universe went on to become one of the best reviewed shows on the program Cartoon Network. They went on to have multiple spin-offs, merchandise as well as their own TV movie.