Van Partible
| Van Partible | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Efrem Giovanni Bravo Partible December 13, 1971 Manila, Philippines |
| Occupation | Cartoonist, Writer, Producer, Animator |
| Years active | 1993–present |
Van Partible (born Efrem Giovanni Bravo Partible on December 13, 1971) is a Filipino-born American animator, writer and producer best known for creating the animated television series Johnny Bravo.
Partible currently resides in Salinas, California.
Partible was born in Manila and grew up in Salinas, California with an avid love of drawing. Despite growing up copying artwork from collections of old comic books, it was not until college that Partible decided to pursue a career in animation. Partible attended Loyola Marymount University where he began work on a senior thesis project titled Mess O' Blues (1993). Initially a film about three Elvis Presley impersonators, the short time to produce the cartoon influenced Partible to shorten it to one. Upon graduation in 1993, Partible was 22 and did not have the extensive experience and portfolio that studios were looking for, and for a while worked in a daycare program for a local elementary school.Mess O' Blues was shown by Partible's animation professor, Dan McLaughlin, to a friend working for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. The studio loved the film and asked Partible to do a pitch for a seven-minute cartoon based on it – what would become Johnny Bravo.
The short was produced for Cartoon Network's new animation showcase titled World Premiere Toons. Partible initially roomed with Craig McCracken (creator of The Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends and Wander Over Yonder), Paul Rudish (a designer on that series) and Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter's Laboratory). The only two cartoonists who worked at Hanna-Barbera fresh out of college were Partible and Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show). Partible changed his character from Mess O' Blues around so that "he would be more of this '50's iconic James Dean-looking character that talked like Elvis". Partible picked voice actor Jeff Bennett to play Johnny Bravo solely based on his young, hyped Elvis impression.
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