Rebecca Sugar
Rebecca Sugar was born in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States on July 9th, 1987 and is the Animator. At the age of 36, Rebecca Sugar biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Rebecca Sugar (born July 9, 1987) is an American animator, screenwriter, producer, and singer/songwriter.
She is the creator of the Cartoon Network's Steven Universe game.
She is the first woman to create a non-binary series for the network.
Sugar was a writer and storyboard artist on the animated television series Adventure Time until 2013.
Her work on the two series has earned her six Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Early life
In Silver Spring, Maryland, sugar was raised in the Sligo Park Hills neighborhood. She attended Montgomery Blair High School and the Visual Arts Center at Albert Einstein High School (where she was a national champion in the Presidential Scholar competition and received the coveted Ida F. Haimovicz Visual Arts Award in Montgomery County), both of whom are located in Maryland. While at Blair, she created "The Strip" for the school's newspaper, Silver Chips), which won first place for comics in the Newspaper Individual Writing and Editing Competition. The new grading scheme for MCPS was ridiculed on "The Strip." She went on to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Sugar's father, Rob, Rebecca Sugar, and her younger brother Steven were raised with "Jewish sensibilities," and both siblings attended the lighting of Hanukkah candles with their parents via Skype, according to Sugar's father.
Personal life
Ian Jones-Quartey reported on Twitter that he and Sugar were in a romantic relationship; at the time of the tweet, the two were together for eight years. When Sugar was at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he said they met. They were married on December 4, 2019.
Sugar said on a San Diego Comic-Con panel in July that the LGBT themes in Steven Universe are largely based on her own experience as a bisexual woman. Sugar said in a NPR interview in July that she created the Gems as non-binary women in order to demonstrate herself as a non-binary woman. "Don't identify as a woman," she said in August 2020, but she was compelled to mask it as the first woman to develop a Cartoon Network series. Sugar loved being able to put her experiences into a new context "through a nonbinary lens" when writing characters for the show in October 2020. Sugar goes by both "she/her" and "they/them" pronouns as of 2021.
Career
Sugar produced short animated films during her time at the School of Visual Arts, including Johnny Noodleneck (2008). Shannon Sugar wrote and animated Singles in 2009, in which frequent collaborator Ian Jones-Quartey served as an assistant animator, assistant inker, and voice actor on the project, while Sugar's brother Steven Sugar served as an assistant colorist. Sugar was a student at the University of On this film, she wrote her thesis.
Sugar also played a key role in the creation of nockFORCE, a cartoon series created by Ian Jones-Quartey and Jim Gisriel that debuted on YouTube in 2007. She contributed to the cartoon's origins and characters, in particular.
Sugar released Pug Davis, her first graphic novel starring an astronaut and his gay sidekick Blouse in 2010.
"Don't Cry for Me, I'm Dead," a tale about two brothers whose shared love of The Simpsons takes a tragic twist.
During Adventure Time's first season, Sugar first appeared on the crew as a storyboard revisionist. Due to the consistency of her work, she was accepted as a storyboard artist within a month of being hired, making her debut during the second season's production. "It Came from the Nightosphere" was her first episode. When working on the show, she was encouraged by the production team to incorporate her "own life experiences" into Marceline's character. Pendleton Ward, Patrick McHale, and Adam Muto, among other indie and underground comic artists on the show, told her to do what she would do when drawing comics and not hold anything back. She said that some of the animation changes for years to come were inspired by the show's ability to do so by being "very artist-driven."
When Sugar was still working on Adventure Time, Steven Universe began. She continued to work on Adventure Time until the show's fifth season, whereupon she departed in order to concentrate on Steven Universe. "Simon & Marcy" was her last episode of Adventure Time; following that episode, being on both series simultaneously became "impossible to do." She had also encountered difficulties with the production of the Adventure Time episode "Bad Little Boy." Sugar Stakes' "Everything Stays" was written for the seventh season miniseries "Stakes.
She was a full producer for Steven Universe as well as a storyboard artist for several of the series's episodes; the series premiered on November 4, 2013 and concluded on January 21, 2019. Steven Universe: The Movie, she directed after Steven Universe's fifth season, premiered on Cartoon Network on September 2, 2019. The film was followed by an epilogue limited series named Steven Universe Future, which also stars Sugar as executive producer, and concluded on March 27, 2020.
Sugar has discussed the importance of including LGBT characters and content in children's entertainment. Sugar said on Cameron Esposito's podcast QUEERY, "I want to promote LGBTQIA, but more importantly, content... in G-Rated family entertainment." I want to do it forever" says the poet. She also shared how Steven Universe has helped her come to terms with her own identity as bisexual and non-binary. She claims that early and positive exposure to the LGBT community can help queer identifying children avoid experiencing shame in their own lives.
Estelle, Garnet's voice on Steven Universe, was the subject of Sugar's album cover. Sugar's sketches and story notes for her unpublished comic Margo in Bed were included in issue #14 of the art/comics anthology collection Frontier in December 2016.
Sugar and Sufjan Stevens appeared on Gallant's 2018 R&B/Soul track TOOGOODTOBETRUE.
Sugar narrated a video titled Let My People Go, a Never Again Action video that was created by the organization Never Again Action in April 2020. The video discusses detainees in the United States and Customs Enforcement's detention centers and the unhealthy living conditions they are experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The anti-racism PSAs "Don't Deny It, Defy It," "Mate Color," "Be An Ally," and "Be An Ally," which she worked on with Ian Jones-Quartey, starring characters from Steven Universe, were published on the Cartoon Network YouTube channel between October 2020 and April 2021.
Sugar performed a street performer who sang a musical number that Sugar had written in "Froggy Little Christmas" episode of Amphibia, a 22-minute Christmas special that aired on November 27, 2021. Sugar was not praised for her role in the episode. Amphibia's creator, Matt Braly, praised his music as "most amazing" and said that it had been sitting in his head and the crew's for months.