ADVENTURE TIME IS NOMINATED FOR AN ANNIE AWARD

December 14, 2006 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News
Adventure Time has been nominated for an Annie Award in the category for Best Shorts. This quirky cartoon was created by Pendleton Ward, and the musical score was created by Casey Basichis.
“Casey’s music is really powerful…in the heart,” said Ward, who is currently working on his new short, Bravest Warriors. “The music puts rockets on all the drama.”

Basichis will also be scoring Bravest Warriors. Ward and Basichis met when both attended California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Frederator Studios produced Adventure Time, for the Random Cartoons series, and will be aired this coming year on Nickelodeon.

INFORMATION: The Annie Awards is an animation award show created by the International Animation Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, and are “animation’s highest honor.” Originally designed to celebrate lifetime or career contributions to animation, sound and sound effects, etc. in 1992, it began to honor animation as a whole and started the category of Best Animated Feature. New categories were subsequently added for different mediums for animation, etc.