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Like a centaur itself,Centaurworldis a hybrid of moods, styles, and genres.
How do you pitch something like this?The pitching process definitely was challenging.
And like you said, theres no house style.
It was really open.
Thats always where Ive been most comfortable, because Im not a great public speaker.
I like tinkering and making things.
So while I was making the [show] bible, I also worked on the first episode.
I made little piano demos and had them on my iPhone.
In terms of their humor and specific things like that, it changed as we began casting.
We loved working with her because she brought so many surprises to the role.
Horse comes from this really serious, sharp, action-heavy world, and shes designed in that style.
Its the most visually interesting thing to watch.
The volume of music we knew would have to change the way we did writing.
We worked with Mercury Filmworks to do a lot of the Centaurworld stuff.
They do more cartoony stuff generally.
Theyve done the Mickey Mouse shorts andHilda.
And then we worked with Red Dog Culture House, which is a studio in Korea.
Theyre more comfortable doing action.
It was really fun to work with these two studios.
We sent them each others work, to inform them of what the other was doing.
They were also collaborative, and it was a really interesting process.
You would describe all these disparate parts, thered be a lot of head tilts.
I love musical theater.
On both sides of that tonal spectrum,Centaurworldalways plays very emotionally true.
It reminded me ofCrazy Ex-Girlfriend.
The Muppets were a huge influence, too.
All the Henson stuff.
The showFringewas a big influence because it has multiverses.
We drew from video games likeThe Legend of ZeldaandGame of Thrones,a little bit.
My mom came to the record.
And yeah, were hoping to see more of her.
I want to talk about your vocal performance as well.
And when we would have visitors, I would do the voice of this cat that was overstepping boundaries.
I wanted to have this really broad, silly character with a Muppet-y voice.
How much world-building did you do forCentaurworld?The bible was pretty extensive.
There was a lot of world-building, a lot of lore.
How did you land on this?
Whats the game, to you, of a world where everythings a centaur?I always loved biology.
I wanted to be a marine biologist too, when I was a kid.
It was marine biology, cartoons, and musical theater.
I loved drawing animals too.
When making something like this, you want to really build a world that justifies it being animated.
Having these kinds of magical hybrid creatures just allowed for infinite possibilities.
It kept the whole process a lot of fun for us as a team.
We loveCatsthe musical and we love cats the animals.
The movie version came out while we were well into the process.
And we were looking atEurovision.
We knew there would be fun stuff to mine from those.
I think it was one of the favorites that all of us worked on.
And it also gave us a really great opportunity to give Kimiko that big musical moment.
Do you think bronies are going to embrace the show?I dont know!
I encourage anyone to give our show a shot.
I think theres something for everyone.
Were you a horse girl growing up?
This show has big horse-girl energy.The funny thing is I was a fish girl, not a horse girl.
I was always intimidated by horses, a little scared of horses.
Just a regular horse.
Who ends up here, and finds her way with all these centaurs.
This first half of the season gives a glimpse of Wamawinks backstory.
And the farts are voiced by Tony Hale.Yes, his farts are voiced by Tony Hale.
I cant wait to see the fan art that comes out of this show.
Do you expect people to start making Centaur-sonas, the waySteven Universefans have gemsonas?I really hope so.
