His animation series has been running since 1999 in the television, spawned two movies and millions of kids and adults Laugh. Now the inventor of SpongeBob (Squarepants) died at the age of 57 years.
“We are incredibly saddened by the news that Stephen Hillenburg is after a fight with AS deceased,” said the channel Nickelodeon, which broadcasts the series since 1999. He was a “good friend” and “creative Partner”. “Our hearts go out to his family,” it says. In the past year, hill castle had made public that he was AS ill, a disease that attacks the nervous system and is not curable.
Naive and funny: SpongeBob Squarepants
SpongeBob Squarepants is an American animated series that was adapted into more than 60 languages. It was about a talking sponge that lives on the ocean floor – in the city of Bikini Bottom. There he meets a starfish, Patrick, squid, squidward, and many other sea animals. The sponge head is in the spectators so popular that he has already built up a large Empire: From the SpongeBob key chain, SpongeBob-bedding up to SpongeBob movies and a Broadway Musical.
From biologists to the TV-Achiever
Stephen Hillenburg has not invented the series, but also wrote, produced, and directed by. He was a marine biologist. During his teaching career, he created creatures of the sea, to facilitate its students to Learn. Then he studied Animation at the California Institute of the Art, where he graduated in 1992.
Stephen Hillenburg
The main character is SpongeBob, he gave a unique sense of Humor on the way. “His totally original characters and the world of Bikini Bottom will long remember the values of optimism, friendship and limitless imagination,” wrote the station in his official Statement on the death of SpongeBob-inventor.
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