Fanboy and Chum Chum

It seems like the last Fanboy & Chum Chum premiere we saw was back during the Civil War (it was really closer to the first Boer War). But the great news is Nickelodeon is now announcing the show’s second season of 26 half-hours will kick off with a big premiere week beginning April 25th. Each night that week we’ll get a pair of brand new eleven-minute episodes starting a 7:30 p.m., including that first night’s “Where the Boys Aren’t” and “I’m Manarctica.” WARNING: This season is even more insane than the first, so you’re going to want to lay off the sugar for the duration*.

– Eric

* Frosty Freezy Freezes excluded

Two more premieres coming this Saturday morning on Nickelodeon - “Lord of the Rings” and “The Incredible Chulk.” Above, you can see Eric’s quick concept of Chum Chum all chulked out.

– Eric

Designed and illustrated by Chad Woods.

Fanboy poster

Chum Chum poster

– Eric

Chad Woods’s Chum Chum poster. See the one-off Fanboy poster here.

– Eric

Creator Eric Robles (center) with Fanboy and Chum Chum

Don’t you wish you had been there?

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This coming holiday, Monday, February 15, at 7:30 p.m., Nick will be premiering a brand-new half-hour with “Prank Master” and “Little Glop of Horrors.” (That’s Chum Chum as a Glop Cat above.) The ghosts of our presidents will be highly disappointed if you miss it.

– Eric

Episode #140. Artwork by Chad Woods.

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If you were at the lauch party Friday night, just tag your Flickr photos “fanboy and chum chum;” they’ll automatically feed over to “The Art of Fanboy and Chum Chum” tumblr. Then everyone can see what fools we were.

–Fred

Here’s a paintover by Chad Woods from episode #116, “Secret Shoppers”. Chad says,

“A paintover is when you add something that’s missing in the final rendered shot that wasn’t modeled or built in cg. In this case the final rendered shot did not include the mayo and chili that Chum Chum is referring to. So, in this case I had to create assets that would fit seamlessly and be comped back into the rendered shot.”

Thanks, Chad.

– Eric

Well, we had our first in-studio screening of Fanboy and Chum Chum yesterday afternoon. The showing - limited to just the crew but, as you can see, attracted many other folks, too - featured the very first completed episode, “Dollar Day”. Mr Eric Robles gave a little speech as well as two big thumbs up for the proceedings. There’s still no premiere date set, but look for the series to hit Nick sometime in the late summer/early fall.

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