Justin Roiland Biography
Justin Roiland is an American voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director and game developer. He is best referred to as the co-creator of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty, of which he voices the show’s titular characters.
He is conjointly notable for registration the peer of Lemongrab on Cartoon Network’s journey Time and Blendin Blandin on Gravity Falls.
Roiland is the founder of the animation studio Justin Roiland’s Solo Vanity Card Productions! and the video game studio Squanch Games. He eventually affected to Houston, Texas, and in early 2004, got involved with Channel101, an L.A.
media collective started by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, where he made and acted in numerous movie shorts (such as 2 Girls One Cup: The Show, House of Cosbys
and a small role as a musician “Christopher Cross” in the series “Yacht Rock”) and in the VH1 television show Acceptable TV. He appeared regularly on The Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central as “Blonde Craig”.
He currently works as a voice actor, including voicing the titular characters of Rick and Morty, for which he is also co-creator, co-writer and executive producer with Dan Harmon. In addition, he has voiced several other characters in Rick and Morty.
Since 2010, he has co-hosted The Grandma’s condition Podcast with Rick and Morty author, Ryan Ridley, and Steven Universe producer, Jackie Buscarino.
He stated at the Rick and Morty panel at San Diego Comic-Con International 2014 that one of his main influences was Pendleton Ward and that he enjoyed watching The Ren & Stimpy Show as a child.
In his interview to The Rolling Stone, he declared that he enjoys creating cartoons and games because it lets him do all the add his lodging, without a need to leave his house. On August 25.2016, Roiland launched video game studio Squanchtendo, a portmanteau of the company Nintendo and Rick and Morty character Squanchy. It was later renamed to Squanch Games.
Its initial full-length title, Accounting+, created together with William Pugh’s studio, are discharged for PSVR on Dec. 19. In 2017, he, Alex Hirsch, and Ethan Klein raised over $200,000 for hurricane relief via Twitch live stream in which he pranks called the Lakewood Church in Houston.
Justin Roiland Age
Justin Roiland is an American voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director and game developer. He was born on February 21. 1980 in Stockton, CA.
Justin Roiland Family
He grew up on an almond orchard in Manteca, California. He attended Sierra High School for all of his time in high school up to the first quarter of his senior year and then transferred to Manteca High School for the remainder of his senior year, graduating in 1998.
After high school, he attended Modesto Junior College in Modesto, California. Roiland grew up with his sister Amy in Stockton, California. He has shared details about his parents. The information is under review and will be updated soon.
Justin Roiland Wife
He is not married yet. In 2016, Justin publicly said in an interview that he was considering dating and subsequently getting married after giving so much focus on his work in the past few years. In 2013, he was linked to Abi Lyn Maley.
Justin Roiland Net Worth
Roiland has an estimated Net Worth of $ 4 million dollars. Roiland earns most of his income by acting and animating. On top of that, he is also a writer, producer, and director. Throughout his career, the animator has achieved a lot of success.
His fantastic skill in creating different voices allows him to produce sounds for multiple cartoon characters. When it comes to animation, he has achieved a lot. For his work, he has also won various awards.
Justin Roiland Gravity Falls
Twins Dipper and Mabel Pines are sent to spend the summer with their great-uncle, Grunkle Stan, in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Ore. Grunkle Stan has the kids help him run The Mystery Shack, the tourist trap that he owns.
The twins try to adapt to the weird surroundings but sense there is something strange about Gravity Falls and begin to unlock its secrets. When Dipper uncovers a cryptic journal that offers insight into the town’s mysteries, he and Mabel use it and their enthusiastic desire to vanquish evil to battle the imminent mysteries that surround them.
Justin Roiland Adventure Time
Twelve-year-old Finn battles evil in the Land of Ooo. Assisted by his magical dog, Jake, Finn roams the Land of Ooo righting wrongs and battling evil. Usually, that evil comes in the form of the Ice King, who is in search of a wife.
He’s decided he should wed Princess Bubblegum, though she doesn’t want to marry him. Still, he persists in trying to steal her away, and Finn and Jake, along with Lady Raincorn (a cross between a unicorn and a rainbow) do their best to keep her from harm.
Justin Roiland Movies
Smallfoot – 2018
Krampus 2015
Tenacious D: Time Fixers – 2006
Justin Roiland Television Series
Adventure Time – 2010 – 2018
Fish Hooks – 2010 – 2014
Out There – 2013
House of Cosbys – 2005
Rick and Morty – Since 2013
“Rick and Morty” Animation Producer J. Michael Mendel Passes Away, Age 54
Over the next ten years, Mendel would hold various producer credits across 207 episodes, winning Emmy Awards for his efforts in 1995, 1997, and 1998. In 2013, he would join Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland as his line producer on Adult Swim‘s hit animated series – with 2018 seeing Mendel earning himself another Emmy Award.
Mendel’s other animation work included The Critic, The PJs, The Oblongs, The Pitts, Kid Notorious, Drawn Together, Sit Down, Shut Up, Good Vibes, and Napoleon Dynamite.
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Justin Roiland Lemongrab
He is also known for voicing the Earl of Lemongrab on Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time and Blendin Blandin on Gravity Falls.
Interview with Justin Roiland: Voice of Lemongrab – Nebula
First off, tell me a bit of your history. How did you get into the animation industry? Did you start off voice acting, writing scripts, or were you producing your own cartoons right from the get-go?
I feel like I snuck into the animation industry through a back door that someone accidentally left open. I didn’t go to art school or work my way up the production ladder on an animated series or anything like that. I actually moved to L.A. in the spring of 2002 for a job as a production assistant on a show called “Ultimate Revenge” hosted by a young Ryan Seacrest.
Over the years I skipped around to many reality shows and eventually wormed my way up to segment producer. During this time, I was lucky enough to have a close friend (Sevan Najarian) who was an after effects wizard and was ready to get the hell out of Modesto. He was just as into the idea of making cartoons as I was.
I let him crash at my apartment in LA and we started making stuff. At first, we had no venue to show our work. This was before youtube, so our stuff just sat around and collected dust until other friends showed us Channel101.com.
That’s when things changed quite a bit. Channel101 gave us the motivation to finish what we started as well as a place for our work to be seen. We worked out of my 1 bedroom apartment in Sherman Oaks making cartoons and kind of creating our own process. Early on I drew everything myself, but later we found Myke Chilian who joined and helped us out on stuff ever since.
Was there a moment you felt your career really took off? You’ve appeared several times in live-action shows like The Sarah Silverman Program and you are the voice of Oscar in Disney’s Fish Hooks. Did you ever have doubts throughout your career?
My involvement with Channel101 is directly responsible for the career I have today, as the work I did back then was seen by a lot of people who work in the animation industry and that helped more than anything else. (Check out Channel101.com because I truly believe it is an incredible way to hone your skills and get your work seen.) I did voices on my own cartoons, but honestly never thought I’d ever find myself doing voices on other people’s shows. That has all been a big surprise I couldn’t have predicted.
The Sarah Silverman involvement was a direct result of Channel101 as well, as I became good friends with Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab there and I was hanging around when they teamed up with Sarah to develop her show with her. She was awesome and we became friends during this time too.
The funny thing is, I’ve never cared about being an actor. My main focus career-wise has always been to get my own show on the air. When I worked in reality TV all I did was come up with reality TV show ideas all the time. Once I crossed over into animation/ comedy I started developing that kind of stuff. Thank god I got out of reality TV.
You have a new series Rick & Morty coming to [adult swim] & just sold another series to Cartoon Network. Congratulations! Anything you’d like to share about either show
Rick and Morty is a collaboration with Dan Harmon and it’s really really special to me. Dan and I have been working together on stuff for many years at this point and we’ve struck a really nice collaborative balance with this show. We are currently writing more episodes and all I can think the whole time is I hope we get to make this show and I hope people get to see it.
I have a really good feeling that it’s going to connect with the audience it’s intended for. The two main characters are a lot of fun and I just have this strange gut feeling that they’re going to catch on if the show gets greenlit.
As for the other cartoon network show, it’s top secret. All I can say is that I haven’t felt as inspired and confident in anything since House of Cosbys. It faces a long road ahead as I just sold it 2 weeks ago, but I just have this gut feeling about it. It’s something special.
I am also currently developing a show for Fox. What a crazy ass year.
I was honored to see a weekly screening of Rick & Morty during production & found the show hilarious. What happened between the YouTube videos of Doc And Mharti and getting the show green-lit that made it all possible?
I will go into this BIG TIME if we go to series. I’m terrified of writing some long-winded story about how it all came to be, and then find out we got passed on. Yeeeeesh!
Now, about Lemongrab. How did his lemonosity come into existence & how did you approach the character?
Lemongrab happened because a lot of the Adventure Time guys are fans of my podcast “the grandma’s virginity podcast”. Pen actually had asked me if I could put him in touch with another person who he wanted to cast as Lemongrab. That person wasn’t able to do it, so Pen asked me if I’d be interested and I jumped at the opportunity. I love Adventure Time and to be a part of that universe was too good to be true.
It’s funny because I didn’t audition, so when I came to the record we had to find the character’s voice. I feel like I jumped right into this screamy thing and Pen laughed and just said “That’s it” and we went with it. That record was wild.
Did you ever expect Adventure Time, let alone your character, to become the hit it is today?
I actually anticipated Adventure Time being a hit ever since I saw the short that Pen did for Frederator Studios way back when. I saw that and I said “Who would even hesitate to put this on TV? It’s going to be massive.” You could see that from the short. It was all there. Now, I honestly had no idea that Lemongrab would be as popular/ polarizing as he is.
I went in and was thrilled to be a part of the show, but there are SO MANY amazing guests voices and side characters. Not once did I think they would be making T-shirts and the Internet would be making memes and whatnot. It’s all pretty insane. I want a Lemongrab toy man!!
Any comment on the open catcher’s mitt representing his loneliness in “You Made Me”? Some fans believe it represents him as the “bottom” to a homosexual relationship or is that just another case of fans looking too deeply into the story?
I have to admit, I was browsing 4chan/co that week. I haven’t talked to the guys about it yet, but I was laughing my ass off at the fan conspiracy theories. I honestly think the fans are reading too deeply into it. I’ll find out though. I just keep forgetting to ask about it.
How was the character’s obnoxious wale written out in the script? Did you improve it or how did Pendleton conjure it out of you during the VO recordings?
Hahaha, I literally just showed up and took a crack at it. The pen was pleased and we got to work. There was a lot of specific direction for things in that first episode record session though. I can’t take all the credit. Some of the reads were directed to be odd and awkward and that is something I have been mindful of with subsequent recordings. Trying not to get too far away from that.
What are your thoughts on Bill Cosby?
Honestly, I have always been a huge Bill Cosby fan. I was bummed out when his lawyers shut us down. What a bummer. I guess we’re all going to end up old and grumpy, so I can’t blame the guy. When horrible things happen to you, it just sucks your soul out. He lost his son in the worst way and I can’t even imagine how that would change your outlook on the world. I will always seem him as the dad on the Cosby Show. That’s how I choose to think of him. Being all happy and goofy.
One day I hope to be as “overwhelmed” by projects as you. Any tips for someone like myself aspiring to be in the same position? Or am I batshit insane?
The best advice I can give you is not to wait for anyone to say go. Just go. If you have a great idea or a project you want to do, just get started. Don’t hold yourself back by waiting for money or green light. Those things aren’t real anyway. You can be living your dream right this second making thing. The best part is you won’t have people telling you to change the things you love.
As a gamer, what are your favorite titles? I know you play Minecraft occasionally, but what kind of games do you really love?
I’ve been playing video games since the NES. I’ve been obsessed ever since. Currently, Minecraft is my all-time favorite game. It has knocked all other games down the list. It has proven to be the ultimate game. I am also playing a lot of FTL. I absolutely love it. I want it on my iPad. I WANT FTL ON MY IPAD! I supposed I’ll be able to play it on my Samsung series 7 slate once that comes.
Ok. Here is the completely incomplete and random break down of my favorite games.
Favorite games of the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era are:
GTA San Andreas
Shadow of the Colossus
Sly Cooper 1
Resident Evil 4
Favorite games of the Xbox 360/ PS3/ Wii era are:
Fall Out 3
Red Dead Redemption
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
I can’t think of any others. Boom Blox? Paper Mario and the 1,000-year door (or whatever the hell that game is called). I don’t know.
I guess I tend to love games that reward my progress with upgrades. Leveling up = upgrading somehow. New skills. New powers. Progress. I’m kind of over the twitch hand-eye coordination games of the golden era. I still loved the new Rayman platformer on PS3, but that was a love letter to platformers of the past. I used to love those games as a kid. I’ve grown out of it.
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