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		Rising Stars of Animation segments by Jake Friedman *Originally published July, 2007 in Animation Magazine
		Amy Winfrey Creator, Making Fiends, Nickelodeon “My show’s got a little bit of a darker feel than Dr. Seuss, but it’s got that same sort of absurdity,” says Amy Winfrey, the creator of Making Fiends, the upcoming new animated series which premieres on Nickelodeon in 2008. Based on the web series of the same name, Winfrey’s show center on two elementary school girls – Charlotte and Vendetta – one of whom makes friends with her natural sweetness, the other creating twisted monster “fiends.” The series is based on Winfrey’s web animation series of the same name, which had developed its own fan base before hitting Nickelodeon’s radar.	(c)Nickelodeon
		“I started making cartoons for the Internet,” she explains. “Nickelodeon had a shorts program at the time, and they had been looking for some people who had done shorts in the past. It ended up just going from pitch bible to TV show. At the time there were only seven shorts on Makingfiends.com, and by the time we were done [negotiations took 2 ½ years] there were twenty. But I had time to develop the characters fully and add more to that world, so it became easy for the network to see what they were getting when they were bringing it to TV.”	Amy Winfrey
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