Vivienne Medrano FULL Interview — The Creator of Hazbin Hotel Reveals the Show's Wild Journey
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Vivienne Medrano, also known as VivziePop, is an animator, director, and creator best known for developing the hit animated series Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss. She rose to fame after the Hazbin Hotel pilot went viral on YouTube, leading to the show's official series pickup and global release on Prime Video. Through her studio SpindleHorse Toons, Medrano has become one of the most influential independent animation creators, known for her bold art style, musical storytelling, and passionate fan-driven worlds.
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| 0:00.0 | And I was like, this is what I'm imagining. |
| 0:01.9 | This is kind of the timing. |
| 0:02.9 | This is kind of the vibe. |
| 0:04.3 | And she nailed it. |
| 0:05.3 | And so that sequence is the Vox Die sequence. |
| 0:11.0 | This is so cool. |
| 0:12.0 | I don't think I've properly told this whole story, so this is fun. |
| 0:14.5 | My hope is someday to do like a comic adaptation. |
| 0:18.1 | All our guests are family. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey, Perl. Hands off the chest flog. |
| 0:23.6 | We will start to see the universes merge more openly. |
| 0:27.6 | The third season will involve the Morning Star family. |
| 0:31.6 | I don't know if I've ever gone on the record saying this. |
| 0:33.6 | I think... |
| 0:34.6 | What's up guys? |
| 0:35.6 | My name's Joe, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | Today's interview is brought to you by FanDul. Absolutely, Bravo on season two. Thank you. It feels bigger. It looks bigger. And there's just so many different directions that you could take everything. Now that we've had time to stay with it and you've had time to reflect on it, how do you feel that it came out to what you first envisioned? |
| 0:59.7 | I think season two, like personally, I think season two clicked. Like we, just on production, |
| 1:07.4 | we kind of figured out, I think, a better way to get the result that I think I always wanted for the show. |
| 1:11.0 | So I think that, I mean, and it really just was a matter because everyone's like, oh, they had more money or whatever. I'm like, no, it was just, it was, it was having a |
| 1:15.2 | stronger team. Like, I think the show had the team that, you know, fit the show and really made it, |
| 1:22.4 | um, what it, what it, what it kind of should have been. Um, and that's normal. Like season ones are always kind of figuring |
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