Amy Winfrey

Winfrey studied animation at UCLA and made a 3D film called The Bad Plant, which won her a silver medal at the Student Academy Awards in 2000.[3] At UCLA, Winfrey worked as an animator on South Park during the first and second seasons. She took a break from the school to work full-time on the South Park theatrical film.[1] In a UCLA class, Winfrey made a website dedicated to traffic cones.[4] Because of many visitors on the traffic cone website, Winfrey decided to create a series of short web cartoons, and the result was Muffin Films. When the 12 shorts were finished, Winfrey created another series, Big Bunny. In 2003, Winfrey created Making Fiends. Nickelodeon contacted Winfrey in 2004 about possibly bringing Making Fiends to TV.[5] The TV series premiered on October 4, 2008.

Winfrey resides Los Angeles, California with her husband, Peter Merryman.[1]

Winfrey worked as an animator on the Comedy Central series South Park in 1997.[1] She also worked on the feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, making it the first animated feature film she ever worked on.

Winfrey created Muffin Films as a thesis project in 2000. There are twelve cartoons, one for each muffin in a dozen.[1] The series explores different styles of Flash animation in twelve different shorts, using muffins as the subject of the stories, which includes muffins that want to be eaten and those that don't, results of having an excess of muffins or none at all, muffins from outer space, muffins that haunt their devourers, and muffins expressing their angst. To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Muffin Films, Amy Winfrey created six additional cartoons for the series.[6]

Big Bunny is a Flash cartoon series created by Winfrey while she was a graduate student at UCLA. Winfrey voices all of the characters, except for the bunny who is voiced by Peter Merryman. Big Bunny is a giant, pink, serious bunny with sharp teeth and a loud, deep, booming voice. He is very loquacious and speaks with humorously broken up speech. He likes to seduce children with weird and humorously disturbing stories with anticlimactic endings. Big Bunny wants to eat every living thing in sight, including the children. He doesn't state this outright, but constantly makes insinuations to his gluttonous intentions with emphasized adjectives like "delicious," "yummy," "tender," and "scrumptious" strewn throughout his sentences.[7]

Winfrey created Making Fiends in 2003 as a web cartoon. The series has 21 episodes created between 2003 and 2005. Winfrey voiced several characters, including Charlotte. Nickelodeon contacted Winfrey in early 2004 about bringing Making Fiends on TV. The TV series aired from October 4 to November 1, 2008 on Nicktoons Network.

In 2008, Winfrey started Squid and Frog, short cartoons about a red squid and an orange frog, who sing about various things, such as that you can't learn surgery from television.[8]

Winfrey has worked as a director for all six seasons of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman.

• "Zoës and Zeldas"
• "The Telescope"
• "Downer Ending"
• "Brand New Couch"
• "Still Broken"
• "Hank After Dark"
• "Escape from L.A."
• "BoJack Kills"
• "Brrap Brrap Pew Pew"
• "Best Thing That Ever Happened"
• "That Went Well"
• "See Mr. Peanutbutter Run"
• "Thoughts and Prayers"
• "Ruthie"
• "The Dog Days Are Over"
• "Free Churro"
• "Head in the Clouds"
• "The New Client"
• "A Quick One, While He's Away"
• "Sunk Cost and All That"
• "The View From Halfway Down"

On 6 October 2018, Winfrey released a web cartoon called Hooray For Hell, co-created by Peter Merryman.[9] The series is about a girl who wakes up in Hell after voting for president and gets a ticket to Heaven. There are three episodes available on YouTube. They can be found by clicking the link in the description of the trailer on Winfrey’s main channel.