Lauren Faust | |
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Born | Lauren J. Faust July 25, 1974 San Jose, California, U.S. [1] |
Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
Occupation(s) | Animator, writer, storyboard artist |
Years active | 1994–present |
Known for | |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Awards | 2009 Primetime Emmy Award |
Lauren J. Faust (born July 25, 1974) [2] [3] is an American animator, writer, director, and producer, best known as the creator of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and DC Super Hero Girls . Faust has collaborated with her husband Craig McCracken on his four animated series The Powerpuff Girls , Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , Wander Over Yonder , and Kid Cosmic .
Faust attended the California Institute of Arts from 1992 to 1994. She started working in the animation industry as a character layouts artist for the character Julie from the MTV animated television series The Maxx , before becoming an animator at Turner Feature Animation and Warner Bros Feature Animation, where she worked as an animator on feature films such as Cats Don't Dance , Quest for Camelot , and The Iron Giant .
Faust shifted to television animation in 1999, working on The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends [4] at Cartoon Network Studios as a storyboard artist, screenwriter, supervising producer, story supervisor. [5] Faust created and developed the toy line Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls.
Faust worked with Hasbro to develop the company's My Little Pony property, resulting in the series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic . [3] The series proved to be a major success not only with the primary young audience, but also significantly among adults and teenagers, who became popularly known as "bronies". [6] She developed Super Best Friends Forever for Warner Brothers, and Medusa for Sony Pictures Animation, [7] though Sony changed the creative direction of Medusa, with Faust leaving the project. [8] She worked with her husband Craig McCracken on Wander Over Yonder for Disney and Kid Cosmic for Netflix.
Faust worked with Warner Bros. in 2019 to develop a reboot of DC Super Hero Girls . As of 2021, she was developing an animated series for Netflix Animation, called Toil & Trouble. However, the series was cancelled by August of that year due to a change in leadership. Faust mentioned in April 2022 that she managed to retain the rights to the show, and was hoping some other network would pick it up eventually. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
In the 2011, Faust offered to design new characters for the fangame My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic after a cease and desist from Hasbro. The new characters became the basis for Them's Fightin' Herds , which was successfully funded on Indiegogo and was released to Early Access on Steam in 2018. [14] [15] The game left Early Access in 2020, when the first chapter of story mode was released. In November 2023, it was announced that after the completion and release of in-development DLC playable fighters, active development of the game would cease, including the rest story mode, of which the entire plot outline had already been written. [16] Faust herself expressed disappointment at this news, wondering if perhaps a "show or a comic" could be made out of the existing story that had already been written. [17]
In 2004, Faust was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2005, she was nominated for an Annie Award. [5] In 2009, she shared a Primetime Emmy for the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends special, "Destination: Imagination".
Faust is married to Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Wander Over Yonder. [3] They met while they were working on the third season of The Powerpuff Girls. [18] Faust has worked with her husband on all of his shows. She considers herself a lifelong feminist. [19] Faust took maternity leave in mid-2016 to take care of her newborn daughter. [20]
Year | Title | Role |
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1994 | Home, Honey, I'm High | Voice |
1997 | Cats Don't Dance | Animator – "Sawyer" |
1998 | Quest for Camelot | Animator – United States |
1999 | The Iron Giant | Animator |
2002 | The Powerpuff Girls Movie | Story, screenwriter, storyboard artist, character designer, character layout supervisor |
2013 | Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony | Executive Producer, herself |
2015 | The Iron Giant: Signature Edition | Animator |
2018 | #TheLateBatsby | Short film; Director, writer, story, character design |
Year | Title | Role |
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1995 | The Maxx | Character layout artist |
2001 | Codename: Kids Next Door | Walk cycles Episode: No P in the OOL |
2001–2005 | The Powerpuff Girls | Storyboard artist, Story, writer, director, Supervising director |
2004–2009 | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | Developer, Supervising producer (Seasons 3-4), writer, Story, Story supervisor, Storyboard artist, Character designer, Animation director, Story editor |
2010–2011 | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | Creator, Developer Season 1: Executive producer, writer, Character designer, Creative director, Story supervisor, Story editor Season 2: Executive producer on The Return of Harmony , Consulting producer |
2012 | Super Best Friends Forever | Creator, director, writer, Storyboard artist, producer |
2013–2014 | Wander Over Yonder [21] | Developer, co-producer, Story editor, writer, director, Character designer (Season 1 only) |
2019–2021 | DC Super Hero Girls | Creator, Developer, writer, Executive Producer |
2021 | Kid Cosmic | Developer, Story, Writer (Season 2) |
TBA | Toil & Trouble [22] [23] | Creator, Developer, Character Designer |
Year | Title | Role |
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2018/2020 [24] | Them's Fightin' Herds | Narrative design director (story), character designer (main characters) [25] |
Tara Lyn Strong is a Canadian and American actress. She is known for her voice work in animation, websites, and video games. Strong's voice roles include animated series such as The New Batman Adventures, Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents, The Proud Family, Xiaolin Showdown, Ben 10, Chowder, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Unikitty!, and DC Super Hero Girls. She has also voiced characters in the video games Mortal Kombat X, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Jak and Daxter, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Blue Dragon, and Batman: Arkham. Strong has earned Annie Award and Daytime Emmy nominations and won an award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Cartoon Network Studios as the network's first show animated primarily with Adobe Flash, which was done both by Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank and in Ireland by Boulder Media. Set in a world in which imaginary friends coexist with humans, the series centers on Mac, an eight-year-old boy who is pressured by his mother to abandon his imaginary friend Bloo. After the duo discover an orphanage dedicated to housing abandoned imaginary friends, Bloo moves into the home and is kept from adoption as long as Mac visits him every day. The episodes revolve around Mac and Bloo as they interact with other imaginary friends and house staff and live out their day-to-day adventures, often getting caught up in various predicaments.
Craig McCracken is an American cartoonist, animator, director, writer, and producer known for creating the Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Disney Channel and Disney XD's Wander Over Yonder, and Netflix's Kid Cosmic.
Robert John Renzetti is an American animator and author. Renzetti is known for creating My Life as a Teenage Robot and the Oh Yeah! Cartoons series Mina and the Count for Nickelodeon, directing Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack for Cartoon Network and serving as the animation director of Sym-Bionic Titan. He was also the supervising producer on the Disney Channel animated television series Gravity Falls and an executive producer on Big City Greens. He most recently served as story editor and co-executive producer on Kid Cosmic for Netflix and released his first original novel, The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things.
Amy Keating Rogers is an American television writer who has contributed to several notable animated television series and films, including episodes of The Powerpuff Girls and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. She has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2009, Rogers directed the documentary film Jason Bateman Thinks I'm Dead, which chronicles her attempts to re-establish contact with actor Jason Bateman, one of her classmates in elementary school. On April 27, 2015, she became a full-time writer at Disney.
The Cartoonstitute was a planned Cartoon Network project created by Cartoon Network's executive Rob Sorcher that would have been a showcase for animated shorts created without the interference of network executives and focus testing. It was headed by Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti. Thirty-nine shorts for the project were in development at Cartoon Network Studios, but only 14 of these were completed. Eventually, balancing 5 upcoming shows and adding another proved difficult and the project was scrapped. Of the shorts that were made, only Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa got greenlit to become animated series. On May 7, 2010, Cartoon Network released nearly all of the shorts to their website. The only shorts not released were Maruined, 3 Dog Band, and Joey to the World.
Christopher Shannon Tindle, known professionally as Shannon Tindle, is an American animator, storyboard artist, television writer, screenwriter, and film director. Tindle's work on the television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends received an Annie Award nomination in 2005 for Best Character Design in an Animated Television Production. Later, at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for "Go Goo Go", while the episode was also nominated for Outstanding Animated Program.
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Clayton McKenzie Morrow is an American animator, writer, director, storyboard artist and storyboard director. He is the son of Oscar and Emmy winning screenwriter Barry Morrow.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated children's television series produced by Hasbro that ran from 2010 to 2019 as part of the My Little Pony toy franchise. The series tied in with the 2010 relaunch of dolls, play sets and original programming for the American children's cable channel The Hub. Lauren Faust was selected as the creative developer and executive producer for the show based on her previous experience with other animated children's shows such as The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends on Cartoon Network. Under Hasbro's guidance, Faust developed the show to appeal to the target demographic of young girls, but created characters and settings that challenged formerly stereotypical norms of "girly" images, adding adventure and humorous elements to keep parents interested.
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony is a 2012 documentary film centering on bronies, the adult fans of the 2010 animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The film, funded through crowd-sourcing via Kickstarter, was originally envisioned to follow voice actor and executive producer John de Lancie to the 2012 Summer BronyCon in New Jersey. The project raised much more than anticipated, allowing it to grow in scope to bring on Lauren Faust, Friendship Is Magic's original creator, and Tara Strong, a principal voice actress on the show, as executive producers and to include additional convention footage from European conventions.
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My daughter's only three months old, so I'm still on my leave, so I'm... just... usually... all day, taking care of the baby. I kinda love it.
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