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J. G. Quintel
Quintel at Comic-Con International in 2011
Born	James G. Quintel (1982-09-13) September 13, 1982 (age 42) Hanford, CA, United States
Citizenship	United States
Education	Hanford High School, College of the Sequoias, College of the Canyons, California Institute of the Arts.
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts
Occupation(s)	Animator, writer, voice actor
Years active	2004–present
Employer	Cartoon Network Studios
Known for	Regular Show
Television	Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack; Regular Show
Spouse	Cassia Streb (professional violinist)
Parent(s)	James Allen Quintel and Terri L. (nee Morris)
Awards	Primetime Emmy Award nominee (2011), Annie Award nominee (2010), Nicktoons Film Festival Producers Choice Award and Student Animator Award (2005)
Website	J. G. Quintel's Twitter page

J. G. Quintel (born September 13, 1982) is an American animator, television writer, and voice actor. Best known as the creator of the animated television series, Regular Show, which debuted in September 2010, Quintel also was the creative director for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, an animated series that appeared on television from June 2008 to August 2010. In December 2009, ASIFA-Hollywood nominated Quintel for an Annie Award in the category of "Directing in a Television Production" for his directing work on an episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. In September 2011, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated Quintel for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short-format Animated Program category for Regular Show. Quintel currently works for Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California developing episodes for Regular Show.

Early life

J. G. Quintel was born James G. Quintel on September 13, 1982 to James Allen Quintel (b.1952) and Terri L. (nee Morris) (b.1956), a professional astrologer, who later gave birth to Quintel's younger brother, Payton Dean Quintel. Quintel and his brother Payton grew up in Hanford, California. According to Quintel, Hanford's geography is kind of flat and there "was not a ton to do" when he was growing up there in the 1980s and 1990s, so Quintel and his friends were always looking for ways to entertain themselves, features Quintel would later incorporate into his animated television series Regular Show.

As a preteen and into his teenage years, Quintel loved drawing and watching cartoons such as The Simpsons and Beavis and Butthead, as well as British shows, such The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh. He often played the action video game ToeJam & Earl, the influence of which Quintel later described as "the perfect platform for Mordecai and Rigby" characters of Regular Show. Quintel also became influenced by music from the 1980s and later added 1980s music into Regular Show.

In 1997, Quintel began attending Hanford High School. In 1998, when Quintel was 16 and a sophomore at Hanford High, Quintel's father James gave Quintel a video camera, which Quintel used, along with Lego men and crude paper cutouts, to create a few minutes of stop motion film for several short film projects at Hanford High School. To expand his artistry, Quintel took an AP literature class and a pottery class at Hanford High as well as took a summer class where Quintel learned how to animate films and make flip books. Quintel also worked at a movie theater and at "a lot of minimum wage jobs," just as 23-year olds Mordecai and Rigby work for minimum wage at a park. In May 2000, Quintel was nominated as a 12th grade California academic all-star from Hanford High School.

After graduating from Hanford High in June 2000, Quintel attended College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California along with his mom, Terri. While his mom continued on at College of the Sequoias to graduate with an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts in 2002, Quintel graduated with an Associate of Arts degree from College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California in 2002. During this time, Quintel made several attempts at getting into the California Institute of the Arts to become an animator, and was successful on his third try.

Career

California Institute of the Arts, also known as "CalArts," is a four-year, fully accredited private institution located in Valencia, California and established in 1961 by Walt and Roy Disney to offer bachelor and master degrees in areas such as dance, film and video, music, theater, visual arts, and writing. At CalArts, Quintel and about 20 his fellow students, including now-voice artist Sam Marin, developed their short films by throwing title names (such as "lollypop" or "candy") into a hat, drawing them out, and reading them aloud at midnight as a warm up, where they each then would then rush back to their desks in a marathon effort to make a film in 48 hours based the one word drawn. In the spring of 2005, this CalArts process lead Quintel to put together a short animated film about an ambassador who loses his cool during a benign encounter. Quintel titled his new film, The Naive Man from Lolliland. Moreover, as Quintel's first exposure to the animation industry, Quintel obtained a 2004 internship at Cartoon Network to work on the TV series Star Wars: Clone Wars.

During the fall of Quintel's fourth year at CalArts, The Naive Man from Lolliland won both the Producers Choice Award (an Apple G5 computer and a copy of Bauhaus Software's Mirage animation software) and the Student Animator Award (US$1,000 and a copy of Softimage XSI 3D computer graphics software) at the 2005 Nextoons Nicktoons Film Festival. In response to Quintel's success at the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival, Fred Seibert, an entertainment entrepreneur and television and film producer, identified Quintel as "an original talent to watch out for in the future." Quintel's hometown local newspaper, the Hanford Sentinel, noted Quintel's success at the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival as being one of 2005's moments from a memorable year. In December 2005, Quintel graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA degree in character animation.

At about this same time, Quintel passed a test and began working as a storyboard revisionist for Cartoon Network's Camp Lazlo. In May 2006, Nicktoons announced that Quintel would be one of six judges at the 3rd Annual Nicktoons Network Animation Festival. In 2007, Quintel entered his short film, 2 in the AM PM, in the 30th annual Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. In 2 in the AM PM, two slackers are left alone to run a convenience store/gas station on Halloween night, where candy filled with drugs creates a mini-nightmare. Quintel later used some of these 2 in the AM PM characters in Regular Show. By 2008, Quintel was serving as a writer/storyboard artist and creative director for the animated series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

In 2008, Quintel pitched Regular Show for the Cartoonstitute project at Cartoon Network by using a storyboard, with his reasoning that, "I don’t think me verbally pitching such an odd concept would have made any sense to anyone." In 2009, Cartoon Network ordered more episodes of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack as well as greenlit Quintel's project, Regular Show. The agreed upon premise of Regular Show was that the series would be about two park groundskeepers, Mordecai (a 6-foot blue jay) and Rigby (a hyperactive raccoon), who try to entertain themselves at their jobs while doing anything they can to avoid work and escape their everyday boredom. Along with his success at getting approval to develop Regular Show, Quintel married professional violinist and former CalArts student Cassia Streb and move to his new home in Garvanza, California in 2009.

In December 2009, Quintel and director John Infantino were nominated for an ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Award in the category of "Directing in a Television Production" for their directing work on the Candy Casanova episode in Season 2 of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. However, American animation director and fellow CalArts graduate Bret Haaland subsequently took the director Annie Award in February 2010 for Haaland's work on The Penguins of Madagascar – Launchtime. Nine months after Quintel was nominated for an Annie Award, Regular Show debuted in New York at 8:15 P.M. EST on September 6, 2010. In September 2011, while the first season of Regular Show was being aired, Quintel was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Short-format Animated Program category as executive producer and creator of Regular Show. However, his Regular Show series was beat out for the award by the ABC animated special, Disney Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa.

By March 2012, Quintel was directing a crew of about 35 to develop each episode of Regular Show, which takes about nine months to go from idea to final product. Quintel currently works for Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California developing episodes for Regular Show and provides his real voice to the 23-year-old blue jay Regular Show character Mordecai. In commenting on his voice acting, Quintel noted how he has an easy going nature and never yells in real life, so had to learn how to yell as the Mordecai character.

Filmography

Films

Television

Awards

References

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External links

• Official website
• J. G. Quintel on DeviantArt
• J. G. Quintel on Facebook
• J. G. Quintelt at IMDb
• J. G. Quintel. "Videos: The Naive Man From Lolliland & 2 In The AM PM". Historical Short Films.

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• 1982 births
• American animators
• American television writers
• American voice actors
• California Institute of the Arts alumni
• Living people
• People from Hanford, California
• People from Los Angeles, California