



I had an amazing time working on Regular Show, and it was really my story-telling education. Eventually the episode leaves your hands and is changed and improved by others along the way, but the first pitch is really completely your own. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Other Works Publicity Listings Official Sites. The amount of creative control that working in that way affords the storyboard artist is really unique. Shion Takeuchi is a writer and producer, known for Gravity Falls (2012), Regular Show (2009) and Inside Job (2021). “ Regular Show is what is called a “board-driven show” in that a writer writes episode outlines, but the scenes and dialogue are written by the storyboard artist while they simultaneously storyboard it. “I just wanted to learn a craft and do it the best I possibly could, and a lot of my career choices have been shaped by opportunities that have just kind of popped up,” she added, noting that her first storyboarding job on Regular Show was also somewhat of a writing job: “I didn’t get into storyboarding with the idea that I would use it as a springboard into writing,” Takeuchi commented about her trajectory in a 2015 interview with the Creative Writing Career podcast.
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Turning her focus to writing, Takeuchi next worked at Disney Television Animation, where she shared two Annie Award nominations for writing for hit series Gravity Falls, and Amazon Studios, where she worked on the Emmy-winning series Lost in Oz. That led to a stint in the story department at Pixar, where she contributed to both Monsters University and Inside Out. The CalArts graduate got her start at Cartoon Network, where she interned on Adventure Time ahead of its first season and went on to work as a storyboard artist on the Emmy Award-nominated The Regular Show. Under the new agreement, Takeuchi will develop new series and other projects exclusively for Netflix. Streaming giant Netflix has signed a multi-year overall deal with Disenchantment writer Shion Takeuchi, according to a report by Deadline. This year, she trades the Pines twins’ summer vacation adventures for. Shion Takeuchi (image courtesy of Netflix). Very few animators transition from all-ages to adult animation, but that’s not stopping Gravity Falls writer Shion Takeuchi.
