[Music] [Music] I am leaving Nickelodeon this is not clickbait this is not a joke this is completely 100% serious I have reached a decision and it's just time to go these things happen in careers in Hollywood sometimes and I'm certainly not the first person to ever leave a studio and what certainly won't be the last but it's the first time for me I've never had a job this long at one place a lot of you are probably very young you're probably not even 20 years old yet and just to even imagine being at one job
for 20 years is probably a little hard to imagine but when you get to be my age and you've had a career as long as I have it can be pretty interesting to be at a job at one studio for so long and I must tell you I have had the time of my life at Nickelodeon I have never been disappointed I've never been let down I've been treated extremely well by everybody there this is not a video to dis on the collodion or to to trash them or anything because they've just been fantastic and
I've had I've had a career in animation that is pretty epic I mean a lot of people have told me they envied my career I wish I had your career this sort of thing it um it really did come as a blessing from God into my life it's it's been an amazing time you know I definitely there is hard work we have to do our part for sure you know there's a scripture in the Bible that says faith without works is dead meaning you can have all the faith in the world and all the belief
in the world that you want to do something but unless you put work behind it and put that effort into it it's not going to come to pass so you've got to do your part as well so I know God plays a big role in my life I really believe there's a lot of amazing circumstances that have happened in my career that a lot of other people haven't experienced and I'm truly grateful I'm grateful to to God I'm grateful to Nickelodeon for giving me all the opportunities they've given me I'm grateful to all of you
out there that are fans of mine They ve been fans over the years for so long and it's just I can't thank you enough everybody out there all of some of my older fans and new fans are discovering the YouTube channel for the first time I'm just so grateful those of you who are new to the channel well let me just give you a little brief history of how I started at Nickelodeon and we'll kind of go from there and I'll tell you what the circumstances were that led up to me leaving and there's really
nothing terrible you could skip to the end of the video if you want you think this is nothing terrible it's just a series of you know this the way things sort of played out I started a Nickelodeon in December of 97 that's a long time ago and I know that because my daughter Sophia was born in December of 97 and the reason I got to Nickelodeon is because I had sold a short cartoon called The Fairly OddParents to Fred Seibert who was doing a show called the oh yeah cartoon show and I don't remember the
old oh yeah cartoon show if you watched oh yeah cartoons you would see three original cartoons made by three different people and he had one slot left and I was fortunate enough to pitch him fairly oddparents he loved it I'd met Fred over at hanna-barbera and I came over to Nickelodeon in 97 so i fairly oddparents was the last show in - oh yeah cartoons and I was able to do that one short cartoon and then my daughter Sophia was born at the end of this December 97 so my daughter Sophia is exactly the same
age as The Fairly OddParents so but I've been there since then and I my last day at Nickelodeon was February 2nd 2018 so that is 20 years and a couple a month or so yeah so amazing that that much time has gone by and just imagine the amount of things I've been able to accomplish there has been astounding every dream I've ever had in animation every every thing I could have ever possibly wanted to do came true and Nickelodeon so anyway I sold fairly oddparents I made for short cartoons and they were received very well
maybe many of you have seen them they're all done on traditional cells and they look way different than the cartoons of later years of Fairly OddParents that was the awesome thing about getting to do a show like that is I got to develop the characters over so many years I got to I got to refine their designs and find a look at the show and refined the comedy it was just so cool anyway they focused tested my short cartoons and then it was picked up as a TV series I was given 6 1/2 hours they
called it a six-pack at the time and I remember they picked up six hours of Fairly OddParents and they picked up six half hours of invader zim and so I was making my show at the same time they were making invader zim and we both actually released our shows the same night they premiered Zim and fairly oddparents the same night and what was exciting about that was I was very fortunate the ratings from Fairly OddParents were just really great and so they ended up giving us more they said you're gonna get a full-blown series now
and what's funny is at first they only picked up six half hours and those six half hours did so good but no one expected it to do good not as good as it did so for a year they reran those six half hours over and over while I could make while I was busy making new episodes and we even did some Crimson Chin online flash cartoons I don't know if you ever seen those we did those at the time and uh those were great cuz we had all these different Crimson Chin villains in those if
you can find those anywhere on the web let me know because I'd love to see those again I haven't seen him in so long but uh we were really trying to do anything with Fairly OddParents because we didn't have any episodes other than those six and so I even took the original oh yeah cartoons and redubbed them in the voice of Tara Strong cuz Tara Strong wasn't the original voice of Timmy Turner it was a lady named Mary Kay Bergman who did Timmy Turner Mary Kay sadly passed away so Tara took over and we had
to retell all of those original oh yes with Tara's voice so it all stay consistent because the show is really taking off and as a result of that I was able to make Danny Phantom I was able to make tough puppy and then most recently Bunsen is a beast and it's just been so joyful and amazing and I've learned a lot about not just animation itself you know because I was a cartoonist in an animator and I was a bit of a writer when we started I love to write comedy but um when you're in
a production schedule like the one they were I was given and the one anybody's given when they get a show you are under the gun you have to work really fast and you really have to bring your a-game every single day so I really learned how to bring my a-game every single day and I tried to inspire other people to bring their a-game every single day as well and you know it's just so joyful to watch your show which is kind of like your child and grow and be accepted by other people you know because
you've been working on something for so long you want it to be special and you want to just keep it fresh and just make it a blast I mean working on Danny Phantom was just a joy beyond belief in Danny Phantom only ran for three seasons and I just it has become such a cultural touchstone I mean people love that show and it's got such a cult following and I am thrilled about it um we never made any more at Nickelodeon you know networks make decisions that they feel strong about and they they just wanted
to move on to new things I suppose but I I promise you I'll keep giving you as much new Danny Phantom stuff as I'm legally allowed to give you on this channel but um you know Nickelodeon owns the rights that's what happened you sell the show and they own the rights so I can't really do anything new with it fully but you never know keep writing Nickelodeon keep telling them that you want to see more maybe they'll just do some more you never know I would be I'd be the first one on board if they
did I promise and I was doing that at the same time as Fairly OddParents so I'm running two shows now I've got two writing sessions everyday I've got two storyboarding meetings every day with storyboard artists I've got two recording sessions every week two final mixes every week it was really hectic and I just want to tell you guys if you're thinking that you want to get into this industry it's awesome but it is very difficult and you need to understand that you have to really step up when given that chance there's another scripture in the
Bible that says to whom much is given much is required it's when you're given a lot it's gonna require a lot out of you and I know a lot of you out there have it inside of you to do what it is you want to do you guys can do anything you want to do anything and maybe we have maybe it'll have a career like me someday and I I hope you do I hope you get to do everything you want to do in art and animation and storytelling I mean we're all storytellers is what
we do animation is storytelling just with funny drawings that move around if I could say one thing about my time and Nickelodeon is that I got to laugh every single day I encourage all of you to find a job or a career or something that you do that allows you to laugh every single day and I'm still gonna laugh there's a lot of cool things coming up but let's keep going so so then after a phantom we got to work with Jerry Trainor on tough puppy my amazing writers the amazing voice cast of that show
some borrowed from Fairly OddParents from Danny Phantom they were on top of me and then my latest show Bunsen is a beast what a joy that's been to make the future of Bunsen is right now it's only been one season it's one season of Munson and we're done and that was a hard decision to make that was our decision to make to walk away from a show like that because it was going so well and but you know what like I said I just knew it was time there's just things that you have to do
in life that are beneficial to you beneficial to your family and I know you guys are fans I'm not trying to let anybody down out there cuz I've got a lot of amazing stuff coming up okay so what's the future of Butch Hartman what are we gonna do now you might ask well I want to keep going I am just gonna keep going I never stop I think like the Energizer Bunny who's like taller but I'm I'm like the Energizer Bunny I just love doing what I do I know a lot of you do out
there as well so I am still going to be making animation I'm gonna keep selling shows I've got my own app the noob Network I do all kinds of brand new original stuff on there go check that out I've got a cool sketchbook that I'm selling on Amazon I'll be doing more books self-publishing books and getting books published by you know other people as well I've got a lot of projects I'm working on right now but I'm under contract to a company called pocket watch that I'm working with that was announced so I can say
that but I can't tell you what I'm working on just yet because I am like I said I'm bound to a contract can't release it yet but when I'm allowed to I will tell you guys everything I promise and there's another couple of things I'm working on that are extremely cool again under contract can't talk about just yet and also I've got a really cool project I'm working on that I can't tell you about called elf detective and that is rocket and roaming and I've got some great ideas for that that's coming out I don't
even know if I'm gonna sell that to a company I might just release that here on the YouTube channel by itself what do you guys think let me know you want to see me self release this and just put it on here to share with you or should I sell it to a company you guys let me know and other things going on - we are just growing this YouTube channel we're growing my other channel speech bubble the podcast I love doing that I'm really just free to do whatever I want now and it is
exciting I'm blessed man I'm a very fortunate person I have an amazing family my wife and daughters are healthy I'm healthy I've got great people I work with like my producer cameraman Jay Steele he's just helping out on all this stuff and I just really want to thank all of you you know everybody says they want to do something awesome in Hollywood they want to they want to come to Hollywood and make their career happen and I'm just gonna tell you there's a lot of great things that can happen here and there's a lot of
disappointments that can happen too it's just you have the strength to get over those disappointments you need to have the strength to understand that there are gonna be times you're gonna be let down I've been let down thousands of times for every success you see out there every Fairly OddParents there's another 25 things you haven't seen that I've worked on and those projects had a lot of blood sweat and tears put in them a lot of hope a lot of things being lifted up and then suddenly just didn't happen and that's what happens when you
work for a network sometimes you and they're not being mean about it there's just they decide at the last minute maybe they're not ready to do that show or or they have other things in mind or new people take over and that's just one of the things you have to get used to and understand that I'm very fortunate now because I'm going off and doing stuff on my own so that's what's cool so I'm in charge and I can do whatever I wanted so that's exciting anyway guys I want to thank you all for listening
to this and just letting you know that as of now after 20 years Nickelodeon is over for me it's gonna continue on for other people it's a great network please keep watching and please keep enjoying it my future is bright a lot of faith in God I'm a lot of faith in you guys because the heart fans are gonna be growing and going strong for a long time to come and you'll be seeing a lot of cool stuff for me in the very near future so thanks again [Music] what do you say wanna go for
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