Line #11 Creator/RaphaelBobWaksberg


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3	Raphael Matthew Bob-Waksberg (born August 17, 1984) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor and voice actor best known as the creator and showrunner of the Creator/{{Netflix}} original animated series, ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''. Bob-Waksberg also performs voices for various characters on the show, including a corgi and a tree frog. As a member of the Olde English comedy troupe, he co-wrote and appeared in The Exquisite Corpse Project. He was also the script doctor of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart.''
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5	In March of 2018, it was announced that Bob-Waksberg had signed a deal with Creator/AmazonStudios to produce a new animated TV series he had co-created with ''[=BoJack Horseman=]'' writer Kate Purdy. The new series is an animated comedy-drama entitled ''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}''. The series revolves around a woman named Alma who discovers a "new relationship with time" after a near-fatal car crash and uses this to learn more about the truth behind her father's death. Aside from showrunning his two shows, he is also an executive producer on ''[=BoJack=]'' alumna Lisa Hanawalt's show, ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie.''
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7	!! Tropes Associated with Bob-Waksberg's work
8	* ArtShift:
9	** His first series, ''[=BoJack Horseman=]'', is designed by Lisa Hanawalt, where the characters are either human or humanized anthropromorphic animals. The look of the show is very stylized and takes place in a world where characters are either human or half-human/half-animal.
10	** The style of his second series, ''Undone'', is designed by Hisko Hulsing, the artist behind the Creator/RichardLinklater films ''WesternAnimation/WakingLife'' and ''Literature/AScannerDarkly''. The series uses rotoscope animation to tell its story.
11	* CentralTheme: Both of his series focus on the human existence.
12	** ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' focuses specifically on happiness and the difficulty of maintaining it in the complex situation.
13	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}'' focuses more on one's relationship with time.
14	* GenreRoulette:
15	** ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' is a tragicomedy series that serves as a [[Main/DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of nearly every sitcom trope in the book.
16	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}'' plays more like a psychological drama mystery series.
17	* GreyAndGrayMorality: Bob-Waksberg believes what makes something realistic, relatable, and powerful is mixing elements of the good and the bad, the funny and the sad.
18	* SignatureStyle: His shows uses the animation medium to tell very surreal, complex, and introspective human stories that have a lot of humor, drama, and profound themes.
19	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: He considers ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' to be an optimistic series, portraying a hopeful look at how people can push through the muck and try to get better in the face of a lot of brutal reality that will keep you down.
20	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Undone}}'' lies somewhere in the middle but could arguably lean more towards the hopeful side like ''Bojack''.

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