George Gendi

**George Gendi** é um animador britânico e designer de storyboard, além de criador de *Maçã e Cebola*. Ele também fornece vocais para Maçã e piloto do Cebola.

## Biografia

George Gendi trabalhou em *O Incrível Mundo de Gumball*, como um designer de storyboard para o episódio "O Terceiro", bem como outros episódios da 1ª temporada.

George Gendi comenta que a maior parte de seu estilo de vida estava lançando programas piloto para o Cartoon Network, sendo um deles o original *Maçã e Cebola*.

## Citações

> "*Well, shortly after graduating I was working for a company called Sherbet and at the time I had some student films online. I got an email from Cartoon Network saying that they were making this new show and they needed a team of storyboard artists, would I be interested? They liked something about my film – there was a sense of humour there that might work out. So they got me on for a couple of months as probation, it worked out, and I kept going. I forgot to say that that show was The Amazing World of Gumball! So at the end of that first season I pitched my own show to Daniel Lennard who used to work for Cartoon Network, and then I got Matt Layzell on board and together we made two pilots. Then I went to pitch both pilots to the Americans, then they opted to make a full-length, 11 minute, fully animated piece, which is what you saw today.*"
> — George Gendi commenting on his experience on CN
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> "*Well the reason why it’s an apple is because once I read a story that my older brother had written – he did this really rough illustrated story that he was planning to make into a kid’s book I think – it was about this apple who decided to leave his tree and follow his dreams to the big city. He goes to the big city and he has a really rough time – he ends up dying – and he becomes a tree in the middle of the city and brings life to it. That was what he wrote, and I thought there was something about that that I liked. So I thought ‘I’m gonna board this! I’m going to make it into a short film!’, so I did it and I adapted it.*
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> In my original adaptation when Apple gets to the city he meets Beer Can – this alcoholic beer can – and they become friends – real friends – and he starts showing him around and they have a really good time. Apple is really innocent, really naïve, he knows nothing about city life – his life had just been in his tree and growing in the countryside – he sees the city as really far away. So they’re having a really good time but at some point Beer Can starts drinking, he starts getting really drunk. Apple has a couple of sips so he’s a little bit buzzed, but at one point Beer Can pushes him away, and so Apple’s now on his own in this city and he knows nothing about anything. Basically what ends up happening is he gets tricked and then this worm eats him up. But then, when Beer Can comes around he remembers and he’s going ‘Where’s Apple? Where’s Apple? What’s happened? Oh no he’s gone off on his own…’ Beer Can knows it’s not a safe place, so he looks in all the places they used to go together and eventually he finds Apple in this alleyway, on the floor, on the concrete. He goes up to him and inside there’s this little seed – a pip – and he picks it up and it’s got Apple’s face on it and he’s dead and he thinks ‘what have I done?’. Beer Can buries the seed in the crack in the concrete and then he falls asleep next to the crack, and then – probably a time-lapse or something – Apple sprouts up and he grows into this big tree, taking Beer Can up with him, into his branches, and then – the same as my brother’s story – he ends up bringing life to the city.*"
> — George Gendi pitching the idea of* Apple & Onion
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> "*Yeah, I mean the humour was always there. When I was boarding that first film it was funny, even though it sounds really poetic, it was funny – what was happening was really funny. But that’s the thing – the comedy stays and the depth of what is happening stays as well.*"
> — Gendi talking about the "zany humour" in Cartoon Network
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## Curiosidades

* Em *O Incrível Mundo de Gumball*, o sobrenome de George Gendi aparece em vários produtos Elmore.

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