About 50-300 puppets are generated per episode in roughly 10 days. While they frequent toy stores and scan ebay for toys, nearly 80% of the puppets are created from scratch with posable foam and wire bodies, customized to look like toys. The duo pitched the pilot show and found the right home on Adult Swim which greenlit 20 episodes.Įach script has a complicated system of approvals to clean before they can start filming. PRESENTS on Sonys Internet site, SCREENBLAST, in 2001. When word got out they wanted to produce a stop-motion short of their toys saving the world, Sonys website asked them to do shorts based upon their original concept. Later Green called Senrich about doing an animated short. They met when Senrich interviewed Green who is also a correspondent for TOYFARE. Senreich became editor of TOYFARE, and then editorial director for all of Wizards publications. Senreich began his career working in comicbooks (starting as an intern at Marvel Comics) before joining Wizard Entertainment, a publisher of magazines covering comicbooks, action figures, anime and collectible card gaming. (FAMILY GUY creator Seth McFalane does a guest voice appearance on Robot Chicken.) He also is an avid toy buff, who even memorizes tags about toys they are attached to. He has also appeared extensively on television, starring in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and as the voice of Chris in FAMILY GUY. Green has played dozens of movies such as WITHOUT A PADDLE, THE ITALIAN JOB, SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED and the AUSTIN POWERS films.
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Green and Senreich, with co-producers Tom Root and Doug Goldstein, lead the writing staff of the fast-moving weekly series, directed by Seamus Walsh and Chris Finnegan of Screen Novelties in Santa Monica, California, which did the stop-motion series CELEBRITY DEATH MATCH. while Green and a number of celebrities provide voices, including Scarlett Johannson, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Ryan Seacrest, Mark Hamill, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Macauley Culkin.Ī team of some 50 artists and technicians create miniature sets, tiny costumes and props and intricate action scenes for sketches skewering popular entertainment, politics and celebrity culture. Named ROBOT CHICKEN, because that was the only title they could get cleared out of the 60 submitted, they use legions of action figures to spoof everything from Quentin Tarantinos blood-spattered epics to THE REAL WORLD, in which a cast of superheroes takes the place of drunken 20-somethings. Creators actor/producer Seth Green and Matthew Senreich spare no one and run through many toys as they bring slightly mean-spirited pop-culture parodies to life in the 15-minute weekly series. 20, 2005, at 11:30 pm on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim. Get ready for ROBOT CHICKEN, an ambitious sketch comedy series done completely in stop-motion, debuting Feb.
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