Mexopolis (also known as Mexopolis Animation Studio) is an American-Mexican production company founded in 1994 by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua. [1] It produced the television series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, the film The Book of Life and most recently the limited series Maya and the Three . The company is currently located in Studio City, California.
Tigre, Tigres or El Tigre may refer to:
April Stewart is an American voice actress best known for providing the voices of many of the female characters in the animated comedy series South Park along with Mona Marshall and Kimberly Brooks. She also provided voices in El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, The Legend of Korra, Infamous: Festival of Blood, and Minecraft: Story Mode.
A calaca is a figure of a skull or skeleton commonly used for decoration during the Mexican Day of the Dead festival, although they are made all year round.
Manny is a common nickname for the given names Manuel, Emmanuel, Immanuel, Emanuele, Herman, or Manfred.
Douglas Michael Langdale is an American screenwriter, producer, film director, actor, and voice director, who mostly works on television cartoons, live action and animated films. He has worked with Disney numerous times, as well as the writing partner of Jorge Gutierrez.
Barking Lizards Technologies was an American video game developer that develops for mobile phones, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Wii and personal computer. Founded in 2001, Barking Lizards Technologies is based in Richardson, Texas. Their titles were published through several major video game publishers, namely THQ, and Activision, and have recently published a title of their own, Osiris Legends for iOS.
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is an American flash-animated television series created by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua that premiered on Nickelodeon on February 19, 2007. The series centers on a 13-year-old boy named Manny Rivera who is trying the best to choose between being good or evil while dealing with bizarre enemies and gains her belt's buckle to become a tiger-themed superhero known as "El Tigre", as well as the son of a legendary hero known as "White Pantera" and the grandson of an evil super villain known as "Puma Loco". The show is set in Miracle City, a fictional city based on and located at Tijuana, where Jorge grew up. The series was produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and was animated using Adobe Flash. A total of 26 episodes were produced.
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is a video game based on the Nickelodeon television series of the same name, published by THQ and released on October 29, 2007. The Nintendo DS version was developed by Barking Lizards Technologies. The PlayStation 2 version was developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment. The PS2 game acts as a simple platformer over four levels and two bonus stages, the objective of the game being to collect "macho points". A Wii version was planned, but it was cancelled due to budget cuts and a short development cycle due to the show getting cancelled early.
A superpower is a special or extraordinary superhuman ability that is greater than what is considered normal. Superpowers are typically displayed in science fiction and fantasy comic books, television programs, video games, and films as the key attribute of a superhero. The concept originated in American comic books and pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, and has gradually worked its way into other genres and media.
Jorge R. Gutierrez is a Mexican-American animator, writer, producer, director, painter, and voice actor. He co-created with Sandra Equihua the Nickelodeon animated series El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, co-wrote and directed The Book of Life, Son of Jaguar for Google, and Maya and the Three for Netflix Animation.
Sandra Equihua is a Mexican animator, painter, sculptor, character designer, voice actress, and illustrator.
Nicktoons is a Dutch pay television channel broadcasting in the Netherlands and Belgium. It launched together with Nick Hits on 2 August 2007. It mostly airs animated programs dubbed in the Dutch language. Currently you can use the Global Feed since 2017
Nicktoons is a German pay television channel owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA, and broadcast by Nicktoons Global since 2012.
Davide Garbolino is an Italian voice actor, dubbing director, and television presenter. Garbolino contributes to voicing characters in anime, cartoons, live action and videogame content.
Nickelodeon Digital, often shortened to Nick Digital and originally known as Nickelodeon Creative Labs, is an American animation studio based in New York City which opened in 1994. It is a division of Nickelodeon Animation Studio. Nickelodeon Digital produces some of Nickelodeon's animated series and creates digital content and motion graphics for the Nickelodeon Group. The company's Burbank, California branch creates CGI and visual effects for Nickelodeon's animated series.
6 Point Harness is an American animation studio and production label of Mondo Media based in Los Angeles. It develops and produces animated television programming, feature films, commercial, music videos and web-based content. Founded by Brendan Burch in 2003, some of the studio's most notable productions include Tom Hanks' Electric City, Fox's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, MTV's Good Vibes, Nick Jr.'s Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Nickelodeon's El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, Adult Swim's Apollo Gauntlet and Lazor Wulf, the animated feature The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, and the web series Dick Figures for the YouTube channel Mondo Media. 6PH also released Dick Figures: The Movie, an in-house production developed from the company's web series.
Maya and the Three is an animated fantasy television miniseries created by Jorge R. Gutiérrez and produced by Tangent Animation.