Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. Steven lives in the fictional town of Beach City with the Crystal Gems-a trio of magical, humanoid aliens named Pearl (Deedee Magno), Garnet (Estelle), and Amethyst (Michaela Dietz). Nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program and taking home awards galore, Steven Universe is the coming-of-age story of a young boy called Steven Universe (voiced by Zach Callison and based on the show creator’s own little brother).
It’s no surprise that she was also a writer on Adventure Time, the askew universe that Sugar has created, the first created by a woman on the Cartoon Network in the States, blending her great love of the superhero genre and magical-girl anime while bringing important messages of acceptance into kid’s entertainment. You really have to care about yourself in order to care for the people around you.Cutting her animated teeth as a storyboard artist on the bacon pancake-tastic Adventure Time and Adam Sandler’s spooky and kooky Hotel Transylvania, it’s obvious that Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar has absorbed much of her previous projects irreverent and crazy style. (The middle of the song sings, "I always thought I might be bad/ Now I'm sure that it's true/ 'Cause I think you're so good/ And I'm nothing like you.") "And then by the end of it," Sugar continues, "I had really turned a corner: I started seeing a therapist, I started forcing myself to take breaks to eat food, I started taking care of myself, and I realized that it was not an alien concept at all.
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In the early writing stages, Sugar saw it as the story of "an alien that doesn't know how to experience human emotion." By the middle of the process, "I was starting to really buckle under the weight of running the show for multiple years and receiving these notes and of not really unpacking my own issues from the past," she says. Only snippets would play over the show's official end-credits, until it was composed and released for the Vol. You can almost see this struggle play out in the lines of "Love Like You," a piece of music she wrote over the course of three years. "All these things were going around but the short itself was so cleverly executed that it demanded to continue forward with those conversations," he says. Sorcher points to how focused CN was at the time to stereotypical "boys" programming, which made this story feel like unexplored territory.
Given all the boundaries Sugar would go on to push with Steven Universe, it sounds silly to think of this as radical.
He was the main protagonist, yet was surrounded and shaped by women. Steven's father lived in a van, which wasn't exactly the idyllic family unit commonly shown on kids cartoons. He also remembers the concept's "very unusual" family setup. "Oh! And by the way, it should be funny and have a lot of action and whatever else," he adds. He admits that "sounds generic," but not when you think of all a short has to accomplish in the span of seven minutes: establishing a narrative, characters, a world. The first thing that struck Rob Sorcher, CN's global chief operating officer, was how well executed it was.
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