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Stephen Hillenburg

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Stephen Hillenburg

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Also known as Steve Hilleburg, Stephen Hillenberg, Steve Hillenburg, Stephen McDannell Hillenburg, Stephen M. Hillenburg

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

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Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, and animator. Born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he studied at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, and the California Institute of the Arts, where he was a student of Jules Engel. His professional work spanned marine biology, animation, and comics. Hillenburg was a recipient of the Winsor McCay Award and a Daytime Emmy Award.

He was a native English speaker who also spoke Spanish. Hillenburg passed away in San Marino on November 26, 2018, due to ALS. His published works include titles such as *Spongebob Sportypants Color Plus Stencil* and *Historias de fondo de Bikini*.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1961
Died
2018
Works
43

Top works

  • ¡Precaución : aprendiz de conductor!
  • Spongebob Sportypants Color Plus Stencil
  • Sponge Bob Assortment
  • Historias de fondo de Bikini
  • La Unidad de Aventuras Acuaticas

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Film & TV

Writing · Fort Sill, Oklahoma, USA

Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August 21, 1961 – November 26, 2018) was an American animator, cartoonist, and marine-biology teacher. He was the creator of the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–), which he also directed, produced, and wrote. It has gone on to become the fifth longest-running American animated series.

Known for

  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water — Baby in Stroller (voice)2015
  • Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants — Self2009
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: To Love a Patty2009
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie — Parrot (voice)2004
  • SpongeBob SquarePants — Potty the Parrot (voice)1999
  • SpongeBob SquarePants — Potty the Parrot (voice) / Miner in Treasure Chest1999
  • SpongeBob SquarePants — Hans1999

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1961
Active to
2018

Member of

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
485
Total plays
2,756

Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August 21, 1961 - November 26, 2018) was an American cartoonist, animator and former marine biologist. He was the creator of the Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Hillenburg">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Basic local alignment search tool

    · 1990 · cited 80,862x

  2. Convex Optimization

    · 2004 · cited 41,121x

  3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

    · 2021 · cited 29,397x

  4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

    · 1938 · cited 24,552x

  5. Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

    · 1991 · cited 23,135x

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Quotes

  • “I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one, I thought he was a funny, nerdy, squeaky-clean square.”
  • “It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world.”
  • “People have to come together and realize how important our oceans are. One thing I’m hoping will come out of the documentary is the realization that the show came from something that’s precious, and that we need to appreciate it. … Hopefully, if you watch ‘SpongeBob,’ you see the plankton and the crabs and starfish, and you’ll want to take care of our oceans.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August 21, 1961 – November 26, 2018) was an American animator, writer, producer, director, voice actor, and marine biology educator. He was best known for creating the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants for Nickelodeon in 1999. The show has become the fourth longest-running American animated series. He also provided the original voice of Patchy the Pirate's pet, Potty the Parrot.

Hillenburg was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up in Anaheim, California. He became fascinated with the ocean as a child and developed an interest in art. He began a career in 1984, instructing marine biology at the Orange County Marine Institute, where he wrote and illustrated The Intertidal Zone, an informative picture book about tide-pool animals, which he used to educate his students. After two years of teaching, he enrolled at California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita in 1989 to pursue a career in animation. He was later offered a job on the Nickelodeon animated television series Rocko's Modern Life (1993–1996) after the success of his 1992 short films The Green Beret and Wormholes, which were made as part of his studies.

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