I remembered all my characters from my student films, so I put something together and it kind of became Regular Show right off the bat. They were looking for aged-up things, and they asked me if I had anything to pitch. I was in the middle of working on a show as a creative director, and Cartoon Network started looking for new show ideas, through this program called The Cartoonstitute.
After school, I ended up working at Cartoon Network. I was going to CalArts, and I had made a couple of films in my junior year and senior year that had characters from Regular Show in it. Quintel: It really came from my student films.
Where did the Regular Show idea spring from? I saw you were writing for a bunch of other animated shows before this. It's like making films, but you don't have to animate them. I still thoroughly enjoy storyboarding when I get a chance. Now running a show, you have to step in and give input on every step of the process. Part of it comes from really wanting do it in a very specific way, but I started as a storyboard artist. No, I do really enjoy working on every aspect of the show. Writing, producing, voicing, and I even saw you did some of the storyboards. I was looking through everything you do on the show, and it seems like you're a one-stop shop. Quintel about this Party Pack DVD set, which is currently available at retailers everywhere.
I recently had the chance to speak with series creator, and the voice of Mordecai, J.G. This latest disc contains 16 episodes from all three seasons that have some sort of party theme that Mordecai and Rigby come across. Quintel) and the raccoon Rigby (William Salyers), who have mundane jobs as groundskeepers at a local park.įor fans who need a regular dose of Regular Show, the network has released the Regular Show: Party Pack on DVD as a follow-up to the Regular Show - The Best DVD in the World *At this Moment in Time and Regular Show: The Slack Pack. These animated adventures follow a blue jay named Mordecai ( J.G. The Cartoon Network series Regular Show has been a hit with viewers ever since it debuted back in 2010. Quintel Talks Regular Show Party Pack DVD, available now Despite not airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim line-up, it is considered more of a traditional adult's animated comedy than a children's cartoon.J.G. The show is rated TV-PG and occasionally TV-PG-V. Quintel, Sean Szeles, Shion Takeuchi, Mike Roth, Jake Armstrong, Benton Connor, Kat Morris, Paul Scarlata and Kent Osborne, while being produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The season was storyboarded and written by J. The first episode of Regular Show's first season is "The Power", ending with the season finale "Mordecai and the Rigbys". Regular Show was picked up by Cartoon Network, who decided to create a twelve-episode first season.
After being green-lit, Quintel recruited several indie comic book artists to compose the staff of the show, as their style matched close to what he desired for the series. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed young artists to create pilots with no notes to possibly be optioned as a show. Many of the characters are loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man From Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM.
The first season of American animated television series Regular Show originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States.