Adventure Time

It’s pos­sible that you haven’t seen Adven­ture Time before. Pos­sible, but with over 2 mil­lion views in 3 years, not very likely. It aired once — at mid­night — on Nick­elodeon, before going on to win awards and become the inter­net sen­sa­tion that it is. Picked up by the Car­toon Net­work at the end of 2008, it’s finally draw­ing near to the date the first epis­ode airs — March 10th 2010.

Adven­ture Time is the cre­ation of Pen­delton Ward. His per­sonal web­site seems to be down cur­rently, but he also hap­pens to have a twit­ter on which he posts many delight­ful draw­ings. Other than that, I’m afraid I haven’t been able to find out that much about him.

How­ever, the voice act­ors are much easier to track down. Star­ring Hynden Walch, Jeremy Shada, and John DiMag­gio (best known as Bender from Futurama) — with guest appear­ances from tal­ents such as Mark Hamill — it’s def­in­itely off to a good start.

Fred­ator Stu­dios are the pro­du­cers of the series (as well as of the anim­ated short) and they have a ter­rific blog on which they post up art­work, story­boards, back­grounds, char­ac­ter designs, and much more. Well worth keep­ing an eye on over the com­ing months as things start com­ing together.

But per­haps my favour­ite thing about the new Adven­ture Time is the gor­geous sets (261 in total) as seen above. Designed by Ghost­shrimp and Santino Las­cano, the high res­ol­u­tion ver­sions are already in heavy rota­tion as my desktop wallpaper.

In short: keep an eye out for it, it’s going to be popular.