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Alex Hirsch with a Grunkle Stan puppet at San Diego Comic-Con in 2013. Hirsch's first job after graduating from CalArts was as a writer and storyboard artist for the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, where he worked alongside CalArts alumni J. G. Quintel, Pendleton Ward (who was his writing partner on the show), and Patrick McHale.
In 2007, he left the band to focus on making music for TV and films. In 2011, he formed another band called Skull Tape. He is influenced from a wide variety of musical styles and grew up listening to mostly Christian heavy metal. [1] He began working for Disney full-time when he pitched the Gravity Falls theme song to Disney Channel. [2]
Gravity Falls is an American mystery comedy animated television series created by Alex Hirsch for Disney Channel and Disney XD.The series follows the adventures of Dipper Pines (Jason Ritter) and his twin sister Mabel (Kristen Schaal), who are sent to spend the summer with their great-uncle (or "Grunkle") Stan (Hirsch) in Gravity Falls, Oregon, a mysterious town full of paranormal incidents ...
Shion Takeuchi (born September 5, 1988) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, producer and showrunner. She is the creator of the Netflix television series Inside Job and has written and produced for shows such as Regular Show, Gravity Falls, Disenchantment and others. [1]
Mabel is an energetic 12-year-old girl (she and her brother turn 13 at the end of the series finale) who is sent alongside her brother to spend her summer vacation at her great-uncle's tourist trap called the "Mystery Shack", which is located in the fictional town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
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Disney commissioned Hirsch to create an eleven-minute low-budget animated pilot [2] for Gravity Falls which he later described as "a short version of Tourist Trapped". [9] On December 9, 2010, it was announced that Disney Channel had greenlit Gravity Falls for a full series based on the pilot, which was originally slated to premiere in spring ...
Hirsch explained in an interview with The A.V. Club during production of season 1, that a typical episode is conceived in a room reserved for writers, where a simple synopsis is presented, and from then on dramatic structure is defined, and the plot is modified to include a character-driven subplot, which Hirsch expresses as "the hardest thing... to find a character story that actually ...