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Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was an American animator, comic artist, and also a marine-biology teacher. He was the maker of the Nickelodeon computer animated tv collection SpongeBob SquarePants, which he also routed, produced, and also wrote. It has actually gone on to come to be the 5th longest-running American computer-animated series
The maker of Nickelodeon’s hit animation series SpongeBob SquarePants, Stephen Hillenburg, died Monday at the age of 57. The main cause of fatality is ALS, additionally known as Lou Gehrig’s condition, a medical diagnosis he revealed in March 2017.
We are unbelievably saddened by the news that Steve Hillenburg has died following a battle with ALS,” claimed Nickelodeon in a declaration. “He was a beloved friend and also veteran creative companion to every person at Nickelodeon as well as our hearts head out to his entire household. Steve imbued SpongeBob SquarePants with a one-of-a-kind funny bone and also an innocence that has actually brought pleasure to generations of children as well as family members anywhere. His utterly initial characters, as well as the world of Swimsuit Base, will long stand as a reminder of the value of optimism, friendship and the limitless power of creativity.
The kids’ wire channel likewise paid tribute through a tweet: “We are unfortunate to share the information of the passing of Stephen Hillenburg, the developer of SpongeBob SquarePants. Today, we are observing a minute of silence to recognize his life and work.
He finished from Northern The golden state’s Humboldt State University in 1984 with a bachelor’s level in natural resource preparation and analysis, with an emphasis on marine sources. He would certainly end up being an aquatic biology instructor in Southern The golden state as well as eventually mix his rate of interests in aquatic life with his imaginative talents to write and also illustrate tales and characters. In the beginning, these were utilized as tools for the class. They would certainly later change right into Bikini Bottom, the home of his well-known SpongeBob and cause a job in animation beginning in 1987. That very same year he won an honor for Finest Animated Concept at the Ottawa International Animation Festival for his animated brief Wormholes. This led him to seek to operate in television as a director and also writer on Nickelodeon’s collection Rocko’s Modern Life and also Rugrats beginning in 1993 and after that his job creating, producing and directing SpongeBob SquarePants. The hit cartoon premiered May 1999 and has actually aired an approximate 250 episodes in nearly 20 years on the air and was subtitled in over 60 languages. The collection won numerous awards, consisting of the U.S. as well as British Emmy Awards.
Though he was chosen for eight Emmys, he never ever won. He did, however, get an applause at the February Annie Awards in Los Angeles when Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, accepted the Winsor McCay computer animation award on his behalf.
