Ian Jones-Quartey was the supervising director of Steven Universe from the Pilot up until June 2015, and is Rebecca Sugar's boyfriend.[2] After some time, he stepped aside to focus on another project, later revealed to be the OK K.O! Lakewood Plaza Turbo game and the OK K.O.! franchise.[3][4] He is best known for being the co-creator of the online series nockFORCE and the voice of Wallow for Pendleton Ward's online series Bravest Warriors.
Previously, he was a storyboard revisionist/supervisor of Adventure Time, a storyboard artist on Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, and an art director for The Venture Bros. and SuperNormal. His last day working on Steven Universe was May 29, 2015, with his last credited work as co-executive producer being "Barn Mates", which aired on May 26, 2016.[5]
Ian briefly returned to Steven Universe to storyboard "Change Your Mind" and to help with the story for "Steven Universe: The Movie ".
Career
Jones-Quartey attended the School of Visual Arts, in New York City, alongside Rebecca Sugar.
Episodes written and storyboarded
- "Cheeseburger Backpack"
- "Together Breakfast"
- "Cat Fingers"
- "Change Your Mind"[6]
- "Steven Universe: The Movie"[citation needed]
Art
Storyboards
Promotional Artwork
Drawings
Trivia
- Ian stated on his Twitter that he and the Steven Universe staff have nothing against "risqué" fanart, and that he actually likes it.[7]
- He voiced some characters in Steven Universe, like Mr. Queasy.
- He animated the Cartoon Network Studios animated outro logo shown at the end of episodes.[8]
- "Barn Mates" was the last episode of Steven Universe that Ian worked on.[9]
- He has appeared as a background character multiple times throughout the show.
- The Pizza family is based on Ian's family, with Nanefua Pizza in particular being based on his late grandmother Theodosia Okoh.
- Ian asked Rebecca to write the ending credits theme for his own show, OK K.O.! Let's be Heroes. The result was It's Only Magic, which Rebecca herself performed.
- According to Ian, he believed the episode "Ocean Gem" would've been the final episode for the entire series before it was renewed.[10]
External Links
- Ian Jones' Spring
- Ian Jones' Tumblr
- Ian Jones' Blogspot (inactive, he suggests to use his Tumblr instead)
- Ian Jones' Twitter
- RPG World, By IanJ (canceled)
- Ian Jones' YouTube
- Ian Jones' Instagram
- Ian Jones' IMDb
- Ian Jones' Wikipedia
References
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/611970316953194496
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/698723352819576832
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/695251500914716673
- ↑ http://www.wired.com/2016/02/cartoon-network-game-cartooniverse/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/736019136405348352
- ↑ "Here are the list of story boarders for the next episode: Lamar Abrams, Miki Brewster, Hilary Florido, Joe Johnston, Jeff Liu, Christine Liu, Kat Morris, Katie Mitroff, Amber Rogers, Rebecca Sugar, Paul Villeco, Ian Jones-Quartey"
– joe the johnston on Tumblr - ↑ https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/578355322793828352
- ↑ https://twitter.com/mcburnett/status/706993368983711744
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ianjq/status/736019136405348352
- ↑ "The Steven Universe Podcast" – Ian Jones-Quartey – "When we were writing that first season, we thought that Ocean Gem was going to be the last episode ever made because we didn't know there was gonna be more, we only has 26 episodes, so we were just gonna cram everything we can into these episodes, the reveal that the Corrupted Gems used to be Gems just like everybody else and that Gems were actually aliens, that was gonna be the end of the show."