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Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August 21, 1961 – November 26, 2018) was an American animator, voice actor, and marine biology teacher, best known for creating the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants for Nickelodeon in 1999.
The eponymous character was confirmed to be asexual according to interviews from show creator Stephen Hillenburg in 2002 and 2005. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Although SpongeBob's sexuality is confirmed as asexual, he is not a sexless organism–– In the episode "Sleepy Time", SpongeBob's boating license (which is revoked at the end of the episode) lists ...
Hillenburg said that he wanted to base the show on his favorite animal, the sea sponge, "because it's a funny animal, a strange one." [25] To voice this character, Hillenburg approached Kenny in 1997. The series, titled SpongeBob SquarePants, premiered on Nickelodeon on May 1, 1999. It soon became a commercial success.
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the megahit Nickelodeon cartoon series “SpongeBob SquarePants,” died on Monday. He was 57.
Cartoon fanatics around the world are taking to social media to mourn the loss of animation royalty, Stephen Hillenburg, who died Monday, Nov. 25.
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This is a list of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since it started in 2001 (where DreamWorks Animation's Shrek was the inaugural winner.). [1] [2] An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major ...
The documentary film received positive reviews. David Hinckley of the New York Daily News said that the "documentary's most interesting moments come from Hillenburg, who created SpongeBob as a secondary character in a comic before breaking him out on his own in July 1999." He added that "it's fun for the whole family."