How did Rebecca Sugar come up with Steven Universe?

Sugar's relationship with Cartoon Network began in 2010, when she worked on Pendleton Ward's “Adventure Time.” She created the character of Steven Universe — the child of a human and a powerful alien from a race known as Gems — for an animated shorts program that Sorcher launched in 2009 in part as a talent-development ...
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What inspired Rebecca Sugar to make Steven Universe?

From the beginning, Sugar vowed to make Steven Universe a personal story, one inspired by her relationship with her brother.
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How did Rebecca Sugar start?

Television. Sugar first joined the crew of Adventure Time as a storyboard revisionist during the show's first season. Due to the quality of her work, within a month of being hired she was promoted to a storyboard artist, making her debut during the production of the second season.
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Did Rebecca Sugar Draw Steven Universe?

Before Rebecca Sugar created the groundbreaking animated series Steven Universe for Cartoon Network, she was a writer and storyboarder on Adventure Time, reportedly heavily responsible for pushing the envelope on that series' relationships.
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Is Steven sugar related to Rebecca Sugar?

Steven Sugar is the brother of series creator Rebecca Sugar as well as the inspiration for the main character, Steven Universe.
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Why is Steven Universe Lgbtq?

This episode made Steven Universe the first kid's show on U.S. television to feature a lesbian wedding. The creator of Gravity Falls, Alex Hirsch, believed that because of this episode, it meant that Sugar was moving everyone in kid's programming forward in terms of LGBTQ+ representation.
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Is Steven Universe named after Rebecca sugars brother?

The program is even named for her younger brother, Steven — who is a background artist on the show.
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Who created OK KO?

Q+A: Alumnus Ian Jones-Quartey, Creator of "OK K.O.!
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Is Steven Universe hand drawn?

Steven Universe has consistently showcased the best animation of the 21st century. It has, in almost every episode, held strong to the techniques of traditional hand-drawn animation despite the digital equipment used for production.
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Is Steven Universe Nonbinary?

Steven Universe is only one of the many animated series with characters that identify outside the gender binary. One of the first characters was Princess Sapphire in Princess Knight.
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What influenced Steven Universe?

Steven Universe is heavily inspired by anime. Rebecca Sugar's recently concluded animated series wears its references on its sleeve. There are many easter eggs to classic anime, manga and video games, from visual cues to overt name drops.
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What is Steven Universe's ethnicity?

According to Wikipedia, Rebecca Sugar, the creator of Steven Universe is half Jewish, and so is Steven, apparently.
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Is Steven Universe over?

The show is coming back! Cartoon Network has renewed the series for a seventh season. Fans of the show are excited to see what's in store for their favorite characters, and we're just as eager to find out too! We'll have more updates on this story as they come in.
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Is Red action a boy?

Turbo K.O. Red Action is a minor character in the OK K.O.! series, who came from the future year of 301X. She can almost always be seen hanging around the plaza with her two friends, Drupe and Gregg.
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Why is OK KO Let's be heroes Cancelled?

Let's Be Heroes, claiming that former United States President Donald Trump's opposition to the merger of AT&T and TimeWarner indirectly led to the cartoon's cancellation. OK K.O! was originally supposed to benefit from launching on the planned AT&T/Warner Bros. streaming service that eventually became HBO Max.
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Why is Sonic in OK KO?

The chase between Sonic and Metal K-O is an homage to the chase between Sonic and Metal Sonic in the OVA and Stardust Speedway in "Sonic the Hedgehog CD". Sonic attempting to rescue Metal K-O from the water is an homage to Metal Sonic's death scene in the OVA.
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Is Peridot based on Zim?

The character Peridot is based on a character from creator Rebecca Sugar's fan fictions of the Nickelodeon cartoon Invader Zim.
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Is Steven Universe based on a true story?

The titular character, Steven, is roughly based on Sugar's younger brother Steven Sugar, who is now a background artist for the online web series, Bravest Warriors, created by Pendleton Ward of Adventure Time fame (he is a background artist for Steven Universe as well).
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