Building A Universe - Rebecca and Steven Sugar (Vol.1/Ep.1)

The Steven Universe Podcast

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🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar and her brother Steven, who inspired the title character and who also serves as a background artist on the series, talk about growing up together playing video games and watching anime. They reveal the origins of some of the Steven Universe imagery, characters, backgrounds, and music, what inspired the creation of the Gems, and why they love the fan theories about the show. Plus, find out what Hotel Transylvania and Adventure Time had to do the creation of Steven Universe.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the Steven Universe podcast, the official fan podcast of Cartoon Network
0:10.1	Steven Universe. My name is Mackenzie Awood, I'm going to be your host and I'm a huge fan of
0:15.2	Steven Universe. I was asked to come out to Burbank, California this summer and get the chance to
0:20.5	talk with the crew themselves one on one and get the chance to look behind the scenes of Steven
0:25.7	Universe and break it down for everyone. So this summer we're going to be coming at you from
0:29.6	the Steven Universe writers room where the magic happens and interviewing all kinds of guests.
0:34.7	We're going to be talking to storyboard artists, designers, musicians and of course since
0:40.3	it's episode one I have here with me today Rebecca Sugar and Steven Sugar. Rebecca Sugar is
0:46.0	the creator of Steven Universe and Steven Sugar is her brother who inspired the main character
0:51.3	and also where he's a background artist on the show. Thank you guys so much for being here today.
0:56.5	All right guys let's jump right into it. So what were you guys like when you were growing up?
1:00.6	Like what kind of shows did you watch and what were you into? Oh my gosh will we played a lot of
1:06.2	video games together. I think when we were younger I was the one playing them and certain point I
1:10.9	started just drawing all the time that I would be watching you play video games. It was like I
1:16.1	loved Yoshi's Island and then when Okrian of Time came out that's like all we were doing for
1:22.6	a while and I mean we watched a lot of anime. We watched a lot of cartoons together. We had like a
1:28.9	tradition of like watching Detective Conan and eating these off-brand goldfish. Yeah we were
1:34.3	watching the movie before and the adult swim and then after school the next day we would watch
1:39.6	episodes. Yeah it was like this ritual yeah but I was like senior in high school. We'd eat dolphins
1:45.2	and friends and watch Detective Conan. We watched you ten and together that was big.
1:53.1	Yeah I think one art bootleg one piece DVDs. Yeah yeah yeah I had these one piece DVDs. I had these
2:01.2	just just typo riddled subtitles that barely made sense but it was kind of like piecing a
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