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Emily Brundige is the Emmy and Annie nominated creator of the new animated family series Goldie<\/em>, adapted from her 2019 short. It premieres Friday Feb. 14 on AppleTV+. Brundige shares the story and visual inspirations for her show, along with the impact of also working on Hilda<\/em> and Over the Garden Wall<\/em>. (This Animation Scoop Q&A<\/em> was edited for length and clarity.)<\/p>\n

Jackson Murphy<\/strong>: It started as an animated short for you in 2019, and now it\u2019s a 13-episode Apple series. How does it feel to go from a short to a full series like this?<\/p>\n

Emily Brundige:<\/strong> It feels great. It was always my plan to pitch Goldie as a kids series, and it\u2019s one of those things that just worked out, and that feels great.<\/p>\n

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JM:<\/strong> That\u2019s amazing. I\u2019m so thrilled for you. The show is fun. It\u2019s sweet. It looks great. Goldie is a giant girl living in the town of Boysenberg. How does the concept speak to you and how did you want to evolve it right away when it came to the short and now this series? <\/p>\n

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Emily Brundige<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

EB<\/strong>: Well, I think it came from a place of being a woman\u2026 in society, feeling a little bit squashed. I just wanted to create a female character who took up space. And so immediately I thought, \u201cWell, just by creating this giant girl character, I\u2019m creating this female character who\u2019s undeniable.\u201d She\u2019s there. (laughs) I feel like we\u2019ve never had a \u201cClifford\u201d human giant character. \u201cWhy hasn\u2019t anyone done this?\u201d It would be awesome to have a giant girl that kids can look up to as a role model. So that was kind of my motivation for the short, but with the show, I felt like I could really expand the universe, obviously. Not just tell stories about Goldie but about her friend, Teeny, who\u2019s the tiniest girl in Boysenbeg, and the Mayor, who\u2019s their friend and has his own hang ups. And they\u2019re all kind of helping each other deal with their big emotions.<\/p>\n

JM<\/strong>: There\u2019s a great group of characters in this, and I love that Clifford comparison. That feels right, tonally. I really enjoyed the fact that in the first episode, we learn about Goldie\u2019s origin story in a unique way. We get some dialogue from the mayor and then we also get this backstory song from Goldie in the second half of the episode. That\u2019s a unique way of coming into an origin story, but I like that. That\u2019s refreshing.<\/p>\n

EB:<\/strong> Thank you. Yeah, that\u2019s one of my favorite songs. It\u2019s still really a touch of me. I love the relationship between Goldie and Romeo, her bird companion. I didn\u2019t want to start from zero, where Goldie comes into the town and then she\u2019s getting to know everyone \u2014 and it\u2019s that slow build. I just wanted to come into the world with Goldie already having grown up there.<\/p>\n

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JM<\/strong>: And you mentioned her friends. We\u2019ve got Teeny and Petey. How over these episodes for families watching this on AppleTV+ are they going to enjoy this dynamic\u2026 this friendship between this trio?<\/p>\n

EB<\/strong>: I think they\u2019ll enjoy just how caring they are to each other and how they kind of help each other see that being different is something to celebrate. And the whole town\u2026 the show has a strong community sense to it. So they all care about each other and their community and town of Boysenberg. And the mayor is more of a really personable friend to the citizens of Boysenberg. And then there\u2019s a little lady named Mrs. Petunia who\u2019s the only character on the show who\u2019s mean. And she can be really mean. So I really enjoy that. But as the season goes on, we start to pull back the layers a little bit on Mrs. Petunia.<\/p>\n

JM<\/strong>: Yes. She\u2019s kind of feisty. I love the look of the town, too. The architecture, the way the homes are designed, the colors of it all. What kind of work went into making a really nice looking community?<\/p>\n

EB:<\/strong> Thank you. My art director for the short film, his name\u2019s German Orozco. I originally wanted the inspiration to be kind of a European town. I get a lot of inspiration from Pippi Longstocking, so kind of that feel of a town that she lived in. I want it to be really colorful, but kind of a unique color palette, and German first really delivered on that look. And my art director for the show, Ross Love, took that and really built it up into a three dimensional world \u2014 and figuring out all the rules of that world. Flowers are kind of digital dots and\u2026 Goldie can interact with rainbows and clouds, being a giant.<\/p>\n

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JM:<\/strong> I wanted to ask you about proportion, because obviously Goldie is a giant. What were the challenges of the proportions of everything?<\/p>\n

EB<\/strong>: I think that was a big challenge. I noticed that you interviewed Natasha Kline, who\u2019s my friend, who created \u201cPrimos\u201d.<\/p>\n

JM<\/strong>: Yes!<\/p>\n

EB:<\/strong> She actually storyboarded the short. I felt like she was starting to figure out how to deal with showing Goldie and her friends. And our director on the show, Graham McDonald, really made it a big point of showing different sample shots. The biggest challenge, I think, was in the shots that we had to show a group shot of Goldie and her tiny friends. Obviously a wide shot won\u2019t work for that. So it was kind of finding those nice angles that give us everything we want.<\/p>\n

JM:<\/strong> You\u2019re an Annie nominee for \u201cBig Nate\u201d and an Emmy nominee for \u201cHilda\u201d. How did your work on those shows prepare you to take on your own show here with \u201cGoldie\u201d?<\/p>\n

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EB<\/strong>: That\u2019s a good question. I think those shows in particular had good, strong leaders with strong voices, and experiences like that helped inform how I wanted to be as a showrunner. So kind of seeing how I could be nurturing and supportive while also making my vision really clear to everyone. And holding true to that, even though it\u2019s a very collaborative thing making an animated show. It\u2019s like everyone\u2019s baby. Everyone\u2019s pouring their hearts into it. So showing appreciation for everyone on the crew too is really important.<\/p>\n

JM:<\/strong> Nice. You got a community in the show. You got the community working on the show. And in addition to all of this, you have done some voice acting, including Sara on \u201cOver the Garden Wall\u201d, which I consider one of the great miniseries, live-action or animated, in television. How have you seen the lasting impact of it over the past decade?<\/p>\n

EB:<\/strong> Well, it\u2019s interesting. Particularly for \u201cOver the Garden Wall\u201d and \u201cHilda\u201d, even when I came on and it wasn\u2019t on the air yet, I just had a feeling of, \u201cThis is a really special series\u201d for both of those. I was just grabbed with \u201cOver the Garden Wall\u201d \u2014 its uniqueness and the music being kind of turn of the century. Two examples where I just felt blessed to be a part of it. And with Sara, it was kind of a fluke casting decision. Patrick McHale needed to cast the part right away. I think there was a record coming up. A mutual friend of ours, Nick Cross, I think, played him one of my YouTube videos, and he thought that I would be perfect for the role. And it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

JM:<\/strong> You knocked it out of the park. That whole show is great. This show is great. \u201cGoldie\u201d is debuting on Valentine\u2019s Day. So because of that, what do you hope families *love* the most about the experience watching your show?<\/p>\n

EB<\/strong>: I hope that it gives families and kids kind of a warm hug that wraps all around them \u2014 and that it feels like a really colorful, friendly, inclusive escape from whatever they\u2019re dealing with in their lives.<\/p>\n