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Viva Piñata (2006-2009)

Premiere:
August 26, 2006

# of Seasons: 2

# of Episodes: 104

Finale:
June 27, 2009

Creators:
Norman J. Grossfeld
Lloyd Goldfine

Original Title:
Viva Piñata

Alternate Titles:
Viva Pinata

Genres:
Animation

Production Companies:
4Kids Entertainment
Bardel Entertainment
Microsoft
YTV

Countries:
CA | US

Overview from TheMovieDB

Viva Piñata is a Canadian-American animated television series seen around the world. It is based upon the Xbox 360 video game of the same name. It is produced by an American company, 4Kids Productions and a Canadian company Bardel Entertainment, a children's animation company in Canada. It aired to high ratings as part of the 4Kids TV programming block and later moved to The CW4Kids before being removed from the schedule on October 25, 2008. It is aired on YTV in Canada, Nicktoons Network and CITV in the UK, TV Tokyo in Japan and on Nickelodeon in Australia. Viva Pinata was executive produced by Lloyd Goldfine at 4Kids in New York and Paul Griffin at Bardel in Vancouver. The stories are edited by Mike deSeve, leading a team that includes the award-winning Daria head-writer Anne Bernstein and Courage the Cowardly Dog story editor David Steven Cohen.

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Performers

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Production

Animation:
Francis Bezooyen
Desiree Ferdinandi
Adam Chaput
Gary Ellis
Navene Papan
Tommy Cheng
Andres Asperin
Frank Riley

Animation Coordinator:
Ben Staples
A.J. Conrad
Grace Verhagen
Rob Lodermeier
Kelsey Wagner
Sean King

Art Designer:
Tim Yang

Art Direction:
Patricia Atchison
Matthew Baldwin

Associate Producer:
Lemon Krasny

CGI Supervisor:
Barry Poon

Character Modelling Supervisor:
Ryan Cumming

Executive Producer:
Delna Bhesania
Barry Ward
Alfred R. Kahn
Norman J. Grossfeld

Layout:
Darryll Pfeil
Sean Metcalfe
Patrick O'Keefe
Dan Laczkowski
Agnes Wiguna
Joey Largo
Victor Marchetti

Layout Supervisor:
Cameron Widen
Samantha Palomino

Line Producer:
Tony Power

Location Scout:
John Hill

Modelling Supervisor:
Jason Cheng
Edmond Mai

Music:
Ricardo Fernandez
Freddy Sheinfeld
Peter Lurye
Russell Velazquez
John Siegler
Ralph Schuckett
Matt McGuire
Dan Stein
Michael Brady
Sue Shufro
Lou Cortelezzi
Elik Alvarez

Production Coordinator:
Rene Toye
Aaron Smyth

Prop Designer:
Kimberly Cairns

Rigging Grip:
Paul McGregor
Carolyn Wong
Anim Babaeipanah

Rigging Supervisor:
Devan Mussato

Staff Writer:
Matthew Drdek

Supervising Producer:
Carole Weitzman
Rose-Anne Tisserand

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