Cree

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***Cree*** (stylized as ***CREE***) is an American upcoming animated musical flash comedy television series created by Jordon So. It follows on a girl named Cree Zealand, a South Korean-American preteen optimist who is kind, sweet, and lives to make the world a better, happier and safer place. The series takes place in a fictional city in Florida called Laketown (parody of Lake City, Florida), with her relatives residing in Jacksonville. Cree is an 11-year-old girl who attends sixth grade at Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.), where she has friends including Monday Chates, her younger brother August Chates, Ortega Moore, Cree's younger brother Sion Zealand, Kylie Nelson, and Victoria Pyang. Cree also has neighborhood friends including Tatianna Gressley, Rowan McAfee, and Jaylee Cruz. They either live next door, across the street, and around the block. Cree and her brother Sion have parents originated from South Korea and New Zealand, which creator Jordon So has family originated from China and Japan. Noon Zealand is the mother who is a descendant of Chinese ancestors. Yang Zealand is the father who is a descendent of New Zealand (Kiwi) ancestors.

The show's title *Cree* and so as the titular character is named after her older sister Cree So, who is a singer and actress, who she will be voicing a top-secret non-human character from a different world.

*Cree* will be premiering on Sintopia on January 14, 2030, with shorts airing in September 2029 via a short-form television program *Sintopia: The Short Case*.

## Plot

Cree Zealand, an 11-year-old South Korean-American girl, is an optimistic tween who is energetic, kind, sweet, nice and friendly and lives to make the world a better, happier and safer place. She's warm-hearted, a waver, a big fan of hugging, loves to say "hi" and "hello", and lives to make new friends. Cree has a 9-year-old little brother named Sion Zealand, who looks up to Cree when he needs help from when he has done something wrong. Cree and her brother and family lives in Laketown, Florida. Cree and Sion go to Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.). Cree is in sixth grade while Sion is in fourth grade and goes to the same school with their friends Monday Chates, her little brother August Chates, Ortega Moore, Kylie Nelson, and Victoria Pyang. Their neighborhood friends are Tatianna Gressley, Rowan McAfee, and Jaylee Cruz. They either live next door, across the street, and around the block.

### **Main**

* **Cree Zealand** – an 11-year-old happy and optimistic girl who is part American, part South Korean and part New Zealander (Kiwi). She is sweet, kind, nice, friendly, energetic, and a huge fan of hugging. She is warm-hearted, a waver who loves saying "hi" and "hello", and lives to make new friends. Cree lives to make the world a better, happier and safer place. She is an older sister of Sion Zealand and a daughter of Noon Zealand and Yang Zealand. Cree is a sixth-grade student attending Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.) with her brother Sion and her friends Monday Chates, her little brother August Chates, Ortega Moore, Kylie Nelson, and Victoria Pyang.
* **Monday Chates** – a 13-year-old girl attending eighth grade at Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.). She is one of Cree Zealand's best friends. Above all, Monday is Cree's closest and favorite friend. She is an older sister of August Chates. Like her friend Cree, Monday is happy, energetic, and also lives to make the world a better place. Monday, like her brother, is very much into sports and she is good at all sports. Although Monday is two years older than Cree and two grades ahead of her, Monday has been friends with Cree ever since Cree and her family moved to Laketown from Jacksonville. Unlike Cree, Monday can get sad from time to time, and she worries that she will be separated from Cree again because they are not in a same age and grade. Unlike Cree, who is sparkly and girly and has a feminine image, Monday is tomboyish, liking all things typical of boyish activity like sports and fixing things like being a mechanic and she likes to have fun with her brother August Chates while they are free of school and work.
* **August Chates** – a 10-year-old younger brother of Monday Chates. He goes to Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.) at fifth grade. He is Sion Zealand's best friend. August is highly interested in sports, with his favorite being basketball. He and his sister Monday are awesome at any sport activity. During free time from school and work, August often hangs out with Monday, Cree, and Sion. He has a cool, friendly but sarcastic personality, albeit he, like Sion looks up to his sister Cree, looks up to Monday when he has done something rude and wrong and is determined to undo any mistake he made.
* **Ortega Moore** – a 12-year-old Filipina-American girl who is a seventh-grade student, attends Laketown Academy of K-12 Education (L.A.K.E.). She is friends with Cree, Sion, Monday, and August. She likes to make friends, especially Cree and Monday and their brothers. Ortega is the only daughter of her parents, which makes her loneliness when she is alone at home. She is a technology expertise. She can dismantle things and put parts back together. She, like Cree, is also into geography and both of them share their nationalities together as they talk about their ancestors.
* **Sion Zealand** – a 9-year-old younger brother of Cree Zealand. He is a best friend of August Chates. Sion and his friend go to Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.). Sion is a fourth-grade student, and he is the youngest of the gang friends. Sion is the son of Noon Zealand and Yang Zealand. Sion is a talented artist and he and his older sister Cree go to art classes. Sion also looks up to Cree. When he has done something he realize is bad, he takes Cree's advice and is willing to fix his mistakes and wrong-doings. His friend August does the same by looking up to his older sister Monday.

### **Supporting**

* **Kylie Nelson** – a 12-year-old girl attending seventh grade at Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.). She is one of Cree's best friends and also friends with Monday, August, Sion, Ortega, and Victoria. She watches television, plays on her laptop, play video games, and listen to music on her phone and calling. Unlike Cree and Monday, Kylie is not always the same feeling as them and unlike Sion and August, she can easily get ill-tempered. When teachers and her parents wrong her of things, Kylie can throw a tantrum. Cree is the only student in school who can calm her down, which surprises the teachers. She is the same age and grade as Ortega Moore.
* **Jaylee Cruz** – a 14-year-old girl from Kenya. She is one of three neighborhood friends of Cree Zealand, and she also loves meeting new people and making new friends. She was born in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. She speaks English and Spanish. Jaylee loves to spend some time with her family and friends. Tyrone Cruz is her older brother, Carol Cruz is her mother, and Zeck Cruz is her father. Her family are descendants of African ancestors.
* **Tatianna Gressley** – a 16-year-old girl who is one of Cree Zealand's three neighborhood friends. She loves to cook, draw, write, make friends, and be with her family. She is a sweet, kind and nice being. For this result, Tatianna get along with Cree Zealand and Monday Chates very well.
* **Rowan McAfee** – a 15-year-old girl who is one of Cree Zealand's three friends from a neighborhood she lives in. She is Sion Zealand and August Chates' love interest. Sion and August compete over Rowan every time she is in their eyes. Much to Rowan's dismay, they send her love notes to her address every six hours. Rowan attends a different school, which is said to be elite by the locals, and she is in the acting club.
* **Victoria Pyang** – a 12-year-old Chinese-American girl who is also a Laketown Academy of K12 Education (L.A.K.E.) student, attending seventh grade. The same grade and age as Ortega Moore and Kylie Nelson, Victoria barely hangs out with Cree, Monday, August, Sion, Ortega, and Kylie because she is likely an exchange student from China. She goes to many different classes.
* **Noon Zealand** – Cree and Sion's mother and Yang's wife.
* **Yang Zealand** – Sion and Cree's father and Noon's husband.
* **Summer Chates** – Monday and August's mother and Eleven's wife.
* **Eleven Chates** – August and Monday's father and Summer's husband.
* **Tyrone Cruz** – Older 17-year-old brother of Jaylee Cruz and son of Carol Cruz and Zeck Cruz.
* **Carol Cruz** – Mother of Jaylee Cruz and Tyrone Cruz and wife of Zeck Cruz.
* **Zeck Cruz** – Father of Tyrone Cruz and Jaylee Cruz and husband of Carol Cruz.

## Voice actors

Few to several voice actors and voice actresses has starred in *Cree*. The five actors voicing the five main characters are Violet Jeol (Cree Zealand), George Perry (Sion Zealand), Jasmine McDonald (Monday Chates), Calvin Quincy (August Chates), and Haley Tju (Ortega Moore). In addition to the voices of the main characters, other voice actors and actresses has starred in the series. Those include Tara Strong (Kylie Nelson), Diana East (Jaylee Cruz), Liliana Mumy (Tatianna Gressley), Grey Griffin (Rowan McAfee), Zuri Xu (Victoria Pyang), Jillian Gazzill (Noon Zealand), Rob Paulsen (Yang Zealand), Cree Summer (Summer Chates), and Khary Payton (Eleven Chates).

## Development

In November 2028, Jordon So has signed up for Sintopia and began working for Sintopia Animation Studios. So became a creator of *Cree*. She demonstrated her show that it's an animated program about a sweet, nice and exuberant 11-year-old girl named Cree Zealand, whose hobby is a goal to make the world a better, happier, and safer place. Her main titular character's ethnicity is based on So's nationality, South Korean. So was born in Seoul, South Korea. She was then a talented digital artist attending Korea National University of Arts located in the city she was born in. She graduated in 2027 and had her master's degree in digital art and animation. When Blanding Cassatt started expanding international versions of its networks and subsidiaries across the world, thus creating dubbed versions of Sintopia's animated shows, So became inspired by its style, thus wanting to move to California, U.S. to work for Sintopia and become a professional animator and cartoonist.

In December 2028, after teaming up with Sintopia Animation Studios executives Jordan Cassatt and Kimberly Blanding and co-executives Junas Hotchens and Jim McCawley Darney, So started drawing concept arts of *Cree* characters, starting up with the five first ones: Cree Zealand, Sion Zealand, Monday Chates, August Chates, and Ortega Moore.

## Production

*Cree* is produced at several animation and production studios internationally. The animation, storyboard, and writing are generated by and held at HispaniolaNewGuinea and Sintopia Animation Studios, both are based in Burbank, California, United States. The music and singing are produced at Studio Mir in Seoul, South Korea. And the marketing and advertisements are made from Skyrocket Animations in Auckland, New Zealand.

## Music

Because of its Korean culture, *Cree* is a musical animated series. The show's title and the main titular character's first name shares the same, hence named after Jordon So's older sister Cree So, who is a voice actress and a singer who according to Jordon, will be voicing a top-secret ("surprise") character who is not a human being or animal and came from a different world.

## Reception

American based *Animation Magazine* stated that *Cree* is a highly influencing series mixed with educational and flash comedy packed with K-Pop themed songs. Publisher Jean Thoren complied "Cree *is one of Sintopia's one-of-a-kind cartoons whose leading main character is a friendly role model with a big heart, a nice little brother, and three great friends.*" *Animation Magazine* founder Terry Thoren stated "*Sintopia is coming to a breakthrough television sensation with new shows teaching kids to be perfect role models. Cree Zealand is one of the Sintopian cartoon characters whose personality and influence is very heartwarming. Parents and teachers would allow kids of up to 4 years of age watch Sintopia's* Cree *because it has no downside, plus the music in this series is very catching and breathtaking.*"