Shion Takeuchi ( ; born September 5, 1988) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, producer and showrunner. She is the creator of the Netflix television series Inside Job and has written and produced for shows such as Regular Show, Gravity Falls, Disenchantment and others. She was nominated twice for an Annie Award in "Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production," in 2016 and 2017, for her work on Gravity Falls.
Early life and education Takeuchi was born on September 5, 1988, and raised in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts, where her parents were a technology company executive and former translator. She attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), graduating in 2010 with a BFA in animation. Her thesis film was titled When the Time is Ripe, a coming-of-age story about a Jewish pear.
Career Takeuchi worked as an intern on the animated series Adventure Time during the first season of its development before joining animator J. G. Quintel to work as a writer and storyboard artist on his Cartoon Network series Regular Show. She was then hired to work in the story department at Pixar where she was involved in the production of the films Monsters University (2013) and Inside Out (2015). She later left Pixar to work as a writer on the Disney animated series Gravity Falls during its second season, where she stayed until the show's conclusion in 2016. Takeuchi also worked as a writer on the Netflix animated series Disenchantment and the Amazon Prime Video animated series Lost in Oz. In 2018, streaming platform Netflix signed a multi-year, multi-project deal with Takeuchi.
Inside Job
In 2019, Netflix announced the production of the adult animated series Inside Job, created and produced by Takeuchi. The show premiered on October 22, 2021 and went on to become the fifth most streamed show on Netflix in the United States and eighth most streamed on the platform globally within a week of its release.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 2013 Monsters University Story artist 2015 Inside Out Story artist
Television Year Title Role Notes 2010 Adventure Time Intern 2010–2011 Regular Show Writer, storyboard artist 6 episodes 2014–2016 Gravity Falls Writer 2015 Long Live the Royals Story 4 episodes, miniseries 2016 We Bare Bears Story 3 episodes 2016–2018 Lost in Oz Writer 8 episodes 2018–2019 Disenchantment Writer, staff writer 20 episodes, wrote 2 episodes 2021–2022 Inside Job Creator, executive producer, writer 20 episodes ordered, 18 released
Nominations and awards
Year Award Category Notes Result 2016 43rd Annie AwardsWriting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Episode: S2 E11: Not What He Seems rowspan="2" 2017 44th Annie Awards Episode: S2 E20: Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls
See also Inside Job Alex Hirsch Gravity Falls
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