Shion Takeuchi

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Shion Takeuchi

Shion Takeuchi (born September 5, 1988) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, producer and showrunner. She is the creator of the Netflix television series Inside Job and has written and produced for shows such as Regular Show, Gravity Falls, Disenchantment and others.[1] She was nominated twice for an Annie Award in "Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production," in 2016 and 2017, for her work on Gravity Falls.[2][3]

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Shion Takeuchi
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Takeuchi in 2018
Born (1988-09-05) September 5, 1988 (age 36)
NationalityAmerican
EducationCalifornia Institute of the Arts (BFA)
Occupations
  • Writer
  • animator
  • storyboard artist
  • producer
Years active2009–present
Known forInside Job
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Early life and education

Takeuchi was born on September 5, 1988,[4][5] and raised in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, where her parents were a technology company executive and former translator.[6] She attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), graduating in 2010 with a BFA in animation.[6][7][8] Her thesis film was titled When the Time is Ripe, a coming-of-age story about a Jewish pear.[7][9][10]

Career

Takeuchi worked as an intern on the animated series Adventure Time during the first season of its development before joining animator J. G. Quintel to work as a writer and storyboard artist on his Cartoon Network series Regular Show.[7] She was then hired to work in the story department at Pixar where she was involved in the production of the films Monsters University (2013) and Inside Out (2015).[7][11] She later left Pixar to work as a writer on the Disney animated series Gravity Falls where she stayed until the show's conclusion in 2016.[7][3] Takeuchi also worked as a writer on the Netflix animated series Disenchantment[12][13] and the Amazon Prime Video animated series Lost in Oz.[14] In 2018, streaming platform Netflix signed a multi-year, multi-project deal with Takeuchi.[1][14]

Inside Job

In 2019, Netflix announced the production of the adult animated series Inside Job, created and produced by Takeuchi.[12][15][16] The show premiered on October 22, 2021[17][18] and went on to become the fifth most streamed show on Netflix in the United States and eighth most streamed on the platform globally within a week of its release.[19]

Filmography

Film

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2013 Monsters University Story artist
2015 Inside Out Story artist
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Television

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2010 Adventure Time Intern[7]
2010–2011 Regular Show Writer, storyboard artist 6 episodes
2014–2016 Gravity Falls Writer
2015 Long Live the Royals Story 4 episodes, miniseries
2016 We Bare Bears Story 3 episodes
2016–2018 Lost in Oz Writer 8 episodes
2018–2019 Disenchantment Writer, staff writer 20 episodes, wrote 2 episodes
2021–2022 Inside Job Creator, executive producer, writer 20 episodes ordered, 18 released[20]
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Nominations and awards

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Year Award Category Notes Result Ref.
2016 43rd Annie Awards Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Episode: S2 E11: Not What He Seems Nominated [2]
2017 44th Annie Awards Episode: S2 E20: Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls [3]
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See also

References

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