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Chowder, a fantasy food comedy series that premieres tonight (Nov. 2) at 7:30 p.m. (ET/PT).The special one-hour episode will air during Cartoon Network’s Fried Dynamite block.
Chowder takes young viewers to the magical city of Marzipan, where a young chef’s apprenticeship deals with surreal situations and potential disasters on the road to becoming a great chef himself. In Marzipan City, everything revolves around food. Snail Cars crowd the streets and colorful citizens hustle about as the Mung Daal Catering Company cooks up deliciously odd edibles. It’s here that young Chowder (voiced by 11-year-old Nicky Jones) toils under the watchful eye of the eccentric and much older Mung Daal (Dwight Schultz), assisting with such kitchen duties as cooking Sing Beans until they warble on key, nursing a bruised Bluenana back to health, or delivering a thousand-pound cake to a man who lives on the head of a giant. But what he really wants to do is cook, and is willing to try the most outlandish dishes in a bid to get noticed for his skills.
Heavily nfluenced by the art of famed cartoonist Sergio Aragon’s, the show’s animation is mostly hand drawn by Hong Ying in China, which was recently selected as the official animation studio by the Beijing Olympics. The show also features watercolor-and-ink backgrounds and stop-motion inserts animated by Screen Novelties in Hollywood.
An original production of Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, Calif., Chowder is created by Carl H. Greenblatt, a self-taught veteran storyboard artist at Cartoon Network Studios who is also credited with creating and voicing the character Fred Fredburger on Maxwell Atom’s The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Learn more about Chowder from Greenblatt and creative director Bill Reis in the November issue of Animation Magazine.
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