J.G. Quintel

J.G. Quintel is an american animator famous for the animated TV series Marvellous Misadventures of Flapjack and Regular Show, both of which are aired on Cartoon Network. He is a recognised professional in the animation industry and his signature style is very apparent in his work. Quintels first noticeable piece called The Naive Man from Lolliland was inspired by one of the CalArts (institute which he attended) exercises- apparently students would have to write down random words or made up movie titles and draw them out of a hat, then they would make an effort of creating a short film in 48 hours based on the drawn word. The main character from The Naive Man from Lolliland later on appears in Regular Show as a secondary character named Pops. The short is animated pose-to-pose and I personally like the drawing style in it. The second short film that followed was 2 in AM PM. It is also hand drawn pose-to-pose but what is the most interesting thing is that you can see the actual origin of Regular Show.

When Quintel got an internship at Cartoon Network he met Pendleton Ward, with whom he worked on Marvellous Misadventures of Flapjack, Ward would later on use his experience he gained while making Flapjack and go off creating Adventure Time. But the thing with Flapjack is it's very well styled- the textures used in the backgrounds give this creepy, rustic sailing adventure feel, the character design is very simple, but every once in in a while there are these disturbing close-ups of the characters-

This was probably Wards input because these close-ups continue in Adventure Time-

and the since humour is so disturbing, sometimes it makes you wonder "is this supposed to be aired on Cartoon Network?" 

 

But in general, you can notice a pattern of authentic style and humour and it's progress throughout Quintels work. Now he mainly works on Regular Show and it is easy to notice how the show progresses with every season.