Adam Muto

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Adam Muto
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Muto in 2015
Known forAnimation, comics
Notable workWriter, storyboard artist, animator, producer

Adam Muto (born July 20) [1] is an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, and producer known for his work as the executive producer and showrunner of the animated television series Adventure Time .

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Career

Muto was a classmate of Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward at CalArts. [2] When Ward was first working on the Adventure Time pilot for the Frederator incubator series Random! Cartoons , Muto assisted him by drawing props. [3] Eventually, Muto went on to work on the television series, serving as a storyboard artist. During the show's first season, he was partnered with Elizabeth Ito, but during the show's second and third seasons, he was partnered with Rebecca Sugar. During the following year, he was promoted to creative director, and midway through the show's fifth season, he was promoted to supervising producer, then co-executive producer. [4] From mid-season five until the show's conclusion, he served as the show's showrunner and executive producer (following Ward's stepping down sometime during the production of season five). [2]

Awards

Adam Muto's work on Adventure Time gained him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the second season episode "It Came from the Nightosphere" in 2011, along with his then-storyboarding partner Rebecca Sugar. [5]

Filmography

YearTitleRole
2006–07 Random! Cartoons Creator ("SamSquatch" short)
2008–21 Adventure Time Storyline writer, storyboard artist, director, creative director (Seasons 3–5), supervising director (Seasons 5–9), supervising producer (2013-2014), co-executive producer, executive producer (Season 6–10), showrunner (Season 5–10)
2018 Summer Camp Island Additional storyboard artist (Season 1)
2019 Steven Universe writer, Storyboard artist (Season 5, Future )
2020 Adventure Time: Distant Lands Executive producer, storyline writer, storyboard artist
2021 City of Ghosts Voice of Walter
2023 Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake Developer, executive producer, showrunner

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