AMY WINFREY!

Amy Winfrey is an independent animator. She is the creator of a number of popular web cartoons, including Making Fiends, Squid and Frog, Big Bunny and MuffinFilms. She also created a Making Fiends television show for Nickelodeon.

Right: Amy Winfrey with a fiend

Amy Winfrey

 

Amy got her start in animation while attending UCLA as an English major. One quarter she took an animation class for fun. She liked it so much that after graduation she entered the UCLA Animation MFA program full time.

While at UCLA, Amy made a short 3D computer film called "The Bad Plant", which won numerous awards including a Student Academy Award.

Left: A still from "The Bad Plant"

While attending UCLA, Amy worked as an animator on the Comedy Central series South Park. The first season was being produced in Westwood, only a few blocks from the UCLA campus. She later took a break from school to work full time on the South Park feature film.

Right: Amy at work

 

In a class at UCLA, Amy made a website dedicated to the appreciation and preservation of Traffic Cones. Amy was surprised by how many visitors came to her website, so she decided that her thesis project at UCLA would be a series of short web cartoons. The result, Muffin Films, found a large and enthusiastic audience.

When all dozen of the muffin films were finished, Amy created another web series, Big Bunny about a large carnivorous rabbit.

Left top: Muffin Films
Left bottom: Big Bunny

Amy then created the web series Making Fiends. After making several episodes, Amy was contacted by Nickelodeon. Amy worked with Nickelodeon to create a Making Fiends tv show based on her independent web series.
Making Fiends was featured in the "Best Television Series" category at the Annecy International Animated Festival and Anifest in 2008.

Right: the voices of Making Fiends:
Amy as Charlotte, Peter Merryman as Grudge and Aglaia Mortcheva as Vendetta
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Flounder

After the Making Fiends television show, Amy created another web series, Squid and Frog, returned to make a new tin of Muffin Films and released several other shorts including "Tea Time with Cobra."

Amy currently has a new television series in development, and is also a director on the new Netflix series "BoJack Horseman." She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Peter Merryman and her pet flounder.

Left: Amy's pet flounder.

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Amy is represented by the Peter McHugh of the Gotham Group.

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