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EXCLUSIVE: Stoopid Monkey Prods’ Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, creators/executive producers of Emmy-winning animated series Robot Chicken, have partnered with Buddy Systems’ John Harvatine IV and Eric Towner to launch Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, a stop-motion animation production facility for the quartet’s joint and individual animated projects, which will be produced under the new company’s banner. Additionally, the studio will host outside stop-motion animation projects. Stoopid Buddy Stoodios’ first productions will be the upcoming Season 6 of Adult Swim’s top-rated series Robot Chicken and the show’s tribute to the characters in the DC Comics universe. As a result, ShadowMachine Films, which had been co-producing Robot Chicken with Stoopid Monkey and handling physical production of the series, will no longer be involved in it. Robot Chicken‘s 100th episode airs January 15. Stoopid Monkey and Buddy Systems first collaborated earlier this year when they launched the YouTube live-action-meets-stop-motion animation show, Stoopid Monkey. Towner and Harvatine, repped by The Gotham Group, were animators on seasons 2 and 3 of Robot Chicken before leaving to found stop-motion production company Buddy System Studios four years ago. The company has had pilots set up at MTV Networks and Disney XD. UTA-repped Green and Senreich also serve as consultants on Lucasfilm’s animated Star Wars comedy series on the heels of their popular Star Wars-themed Robot Chicken specials, produce online reality show www.ControlTV.com and serve as executive producers on Adult Swim’s Titan Maximum.
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Mars Needs Moms 2?
Never heard of these guys or the shows.
A robot chicken to me is an escort quest in WOW. Lol. /flop
Robot Chicken is OK but MAD is way funnier.
Whoa what happened to shadowmachine?
No doubt, looks like a greedy agent acted selfishly as Corey and Alex are great guys whove busted ass for years.
Corey and Alex may or may not be good guys, but they most definitely didn’t bust ass for years. They were in the right place at the right time for the start of Robot Chicken and (wisely) latched on to a good thing when they saw it. Unfortunately through laziness, rampant cronyism and straight up incompetence, they burned that bridge. We’ll see how long it takes til they run Shadow into the ground without Seth & Co.
or we’ll see how long it takes to run robot into the ground with substandard deliverables and general flailing about and continued infighting.
also, don’t lead with “may or may not be good guys” and then call them assholes for the remainder of your post.
Couldn’t agree more with Shady Shadow. Having worked there, I’ve never met two nice guys who seem so disinterested in running a show, producing, or being involved in entertainment whatsoever. They are the epitome of hands-off approach. People who worked on RC5 and RCSWIII didn’t even know who they were because they were so completely uninvolved.
I am utterly shocked Comedy Central hasn’t canceled its commitment to their pilot with them, and that they still have any $.
Not quite.
This whole thing has been orchestrated by Mike Fasolo.
On a related note, was Titan Maximum ever formally cancelled? Seems to have drifted into the ether…
Titan Maximum seriously sucked eggs.
I love Robot Chicken! This show is awesome!!!
This is hilarious.
I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and act like professionals. Those who are getting defensive are gravely close to showing their identities… We wouldn’t want that- let’s just be passive aggressive and not admit who we are.
The truth is, Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico (however you spell that) run their studio in a different fashion than Seth Green and Matt Senreich prefer. So they parted ways, PROFESSIONALLY- no greedy conspiracy need apply- as did Dino Stamatoupolis (seriously, how do you spell these names?) when he started his new studio for Frankenhole Season 2. This is Hollywood, people. It happens.
And we’ll ALL wish ALL studios, new and old, the very best. Because the whole point of this is that we’re here to entertain people.
Lest we forget.
Honey Badger doesn’t give a shit about what’s going on way up Above the Line.
Those bitches can all squack and fight, it don’t matter to Honey Badger as long as there is some freekin honey to eat.
Honey Badger friggin knows that the Stop Motion Animation Crews that rock this town will never be divided against themselves.
I would hope not, Honey Badger. Just as I hope that the stop motion community will never be divided against itself- or the crews. So much friction in an art form we all enjoy, and it makes me sad. Where’s the love? These are CARTOONS you’re making. They’re supposed to be fun…a celebration of hard-won teamwork and pride for what a group of like-minded people can do.
Everyone- I can’t speak to what it’s like in there- I’ve never worked at the studios, save for one animation test- but I can tell you that I have worked with people who were just co-workers and the fact that we weren’t close didn’t get in the way of the work itself. The work sustains, and never forget that not everyone gets to animate in a big studio for a living. You are the chosen ones. You are looked up to by the guys and gals making films in their basements bussin’ tables to pay the Billz.
Sorry for the spelling and grammatical errors. I sounded like a foreigner, for a moment . I’m not, just foreign to my new iPad2 which wouldn’t allow me to scroll back to the top in order to proof read. My bad!
So ,in closing, its a pretty untapped market. I’m a little older than Seth, and therefore a little wiser, and wish him all the best and as we are both children of the East Coast 70′s kids, I’d like to become a blip on your claymation radar before I become a proverbial ” bomb” in the revamped industry.