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Wishing everyone a safe and joyful holiday season. Merry Christmas!

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Trading Faces and Mr. Rippen are my favorite episodes of Season 2. Can’t you tell? He’s such a dork…I love it.

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“Good Villain, Bad Hero” I had this idea of a mission where Penn and Rippen accidentally switch roles when zapping to a world, and when they were told what their mission was, they’d do the opposite so that their original side would win~!

Example: Bad guy steals gold, bad guy wins, Good guy steals gold, Bad guy still wins

it’s a vice versa thing. so if Penn stole back the gold as the villain, the good guys would win because the town would get their gold back.

I hope I explained it good enough~!

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Something we tried to do more of in season 2 was animate assets for the vendor studio to use before they began animating. The strength of a program like Harmony is that once something is animated it can be endlessly tweaked to look different without actually reanimating anything. This was a rough flying cycle I did for Sashi as a parrot in the whale boat world.

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some larreva, for the soul.

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Here's a weird question. Did Sashi realize that she has feelings for Penn before the finale, or during the finale's montage? Because in Rootilda and Mr. Rippen, it seems too me that she was acting a bit like an overprotective girlfriend.

Sashi and Penn were friends/co-workers who both acted jealously when the other was crushing on other people/plants/dragons–this was established in both seasons 1 and 2, if you look– though romance and crushes was never the focus of the show – not even close.

I’m not gonna talk about this beyond this post, because I’m happy with the statement we made in the show itself. It speaks clearly for me and I’m satisfied. While many have said they saw it coming, hoped it would happen and are happy, or didn’t see it coming and liked the surprise of this final moment, others have said they didn’t see it coming (wether they liked it or not) and others have asked me if we planned it from the start– some implying it came out of nowhere. One or two even implying that it was a stunt or added just for Penashi fans.

Needless to say, I’ve gotten lots of questions and comments about it, and I get more every day. So I thought I would comment just this one time about it - to answer all those who have been asking.

Any romantic relationship or overt crush was never what the show was about. Certainly there were some very overt crushes– Sashi/Blaze, Rippen/LSB… But that was one small aspect of this series, and I like it that way. Crushes were no greater than competitiveness, overcoming fears, self doubt, learning to trust, etc. The series was about overcoming external and internal conflicts through the power of friendship, tolerance, mutual understanding, learning and growth –something I truly believe in. And it was about comedy and creative worlds, and insane and crazy fun action and adventure.

We developed the series creatively and organically, as we wrote it, storyboarded it and animated it –seasons 1 and 2. In both Season 1 and especially in season 2, I knew Penn and Sashi had mutual affection. Was it just friendly? Or was there more? Maybe? Maybe not? That’s how it can be in life, especially high school. And often, as in life, these things never get verbalized or acted upon. Certainly in Season 2 it became a bit more overt, but again, it was never the focus of the series. These internal feelings did certainly bubble up to the surface here and there. It was part of the episodes in Season 1, and more so in Season 2. Especially in our Pirates season 2 premiere, and in The Last Mountain Beast… and most notably, in our series finale.

As we moved towards the finale with ‘Mr. Rippen’ and especially in the adventure and battle of ‘At The End Of The Worlds’ these feelings got heightened, as many feelings do… You can see it in more than a few moments, if you look. Even Rippen and Boone talk about what they observe… And once the battle is over, and the mission is over, when they return to normal life, and start a new year at High School… Sashi has new hair, because I wanted to emphasize change and time passing… and something new… Not trying to overstate it, so forgive this analogy, but it’s like these kids are home from 'the war’, and getting back to normal life as teens. (not serious PTSD or anything, but still it’s something to adjust from) And in some ways you can never go back to normal life. (Not analogous, and not at all a literal inspiration, but I always liked how JRR Tolkien and Peter Jackson showed the hobbits returning to life at The Shire After the war of the ring– in Lord of The Rings –that was directly inspired by Tolkien himself, returning after WW1, and never being the same after…) Our battle for the multiverse was big for our young teenage characters. Especially Penn, but also Sashi- and all that led up to it. Being back home with no more zapping and no more fighting, life is different back in Middleburg.

As we show time passing (one of the purposes of the last Epilogue song that I wrote and rough storyboarded), Penn Looks at Sashi a bit differently now. She has different hair, she’s a bit different, maybe even cuter? (You be the judge) Penn smiles at her goofily. She smiles back. That moment is almost like they are seeing each other in a new way, building on their past… In the battle just before, we pushed them physically closer and pushed them each closer to death quite a few times – Penn especially –and we also tested their friendship back in 'Last Mountain Beast’. All of this was done intentionally, as part of creating this entire story.

At the very end of the series, Sashi takes things into her own hands and acts. It’s impulsive and it builds on all she was feeling before, and more importantly, what she feels in that moment. Penn is surprised- as maybe some of you were– but he is also instantly on board, in that moment. That’s how it is. And that’s storytelling I like. Surprise is good. But it’s also based on what we established earlier. It’s up to you guys to see it however you want. I can’t tell you how you should feel about it, and I don’t want to. To me it’s one action. One moment. And who knows where it goes? It’s 14-year olds and one moment. It certainly advanced things beyond where things were, now that some time has passed, now that they’re back from 'the war’.

I’m only giving my perspective on this because it’s a commonly asked question. I’m glad that so many of you are happy with the series and the finale. I’m happy with our creative expression of these characters and our story. I’m happy with the episodes, and I feel they stand on their own. And you guys can take them however you like.

I wasn’t going to answer any of these questions, but there have been quite a lot, and the above question seemed ok as a jumping off point…

I don’t think I’ll speak about it any more than this, so you can save time and stop asking me about this issue. I don’t want to discuss it in any more detail. I prefer to let the series stand by itself.

I’m proud of the many stories and the overarching story we told– the Penn and Sashi thing is just one aspect of it. The series is so much more, and I’m happy with where we took all of our characters. Obviously Penn and Rippen had the biggest and most consequential choices and actions in this story.

Thanks to all who watched and enjoyed the show; your questions and comments mean a lot.

Peace & thanks ✌️💫✨✨🦍✨✨💫🙏

~Sam

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Finished watching season 2 of Penn Zero. Such a creative show! And congrats to the creator, my buddy, Sam Levine. (iPad sketch)

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My most favorite pic of Larry

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Now that season 2 has aired I will post some of the work we did. One of my favorite worlds from season 1 was “cereal world” for 2 reasons: I love Jay Ward, and some of the first professional work I ever did was on cereal characters like Trix Rabbit, Lucky Charms, etc… Most of the time I didn’t have the luxury of taking poses this far in terms of completion but this one was so specific to cereal characters that I really felt I needed to put more attention in to these. They ended up being some of my favorite special poses from this episode.

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Rippen in “Lord of the Onion Rings!”/”Lord of the Zero!”

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This is from July 29th 2017 and it’s Vonnie, Penn, and Brock from Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero! :D

Wow, that was a perfect finale episode! It made me laugh, cry, smile, go “awwwww!!! ^_^ <3 “ had everything I’d hoped to see plus so many great surprises, it had the awesomeness of every episode but brought up a notch, and I love that all the characters got their happy endings (which are actually happy beginnings in most cases)! ^_^ <3

This show was amazing in every single way! I can’t even decide yet which are my favorite episodes for Season 2 because even just listing the ones I’m leaning towards ends up becoming a list of almost all the episodes! I love every episode of both seasons, each one is like its own mini-masterpiece film! And like films, it never gets boring re-watching the episodes because there are always more hidden gems to discover in each one! :D I’m looking forward to re-watching each episode of season 2 as many times as I’ve already re-watched the season 1 episodes (which is at minimum 5 times each)! :D

I’ve been in a LOT of cartoon fandoms throughout my life, but I have never come across a series as creative as Penn Zero. Most cartoons are particularly creative in 1 aspect, such as story or art direction. But Penn Zero was extremely creative in EVERYTHING! :D From the overall story to the individual episode’s stories (and sub-stories, and sub-sub-sub stories in Larry’s tangents), the gorgeous animation, the design of the worlds and all of the characters in those worlds (and there are tons of these! :O That’s so impressive how unique each world is given the number of them!), the characters themselves and their personalities, the variety of catchy songs and pretty music, the dialogue, and even the show’s general premise and format, everything was creative at a high level I’ve never seen before in a cartoon! :D

Penn Zero is one of my favorite cartoon shows of all time and I’m incredibly sad it’s over. But I’m glad that it was able to have such a wonderful proper ending and I’m so grateful we got 2 spectacular seasons worth of it! Thank you @samakaphyllis  and everyone on the Penn Zero cast and crew for all of your hard work bringing it to life! ^_^ <3

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Still on a Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero fan art kick.

I couldn’t leave out the villains, Rippen and Larry. And nobody wants to get on Phyllis’s bad side. o.o

(BTW, the finale was fantastic! If you haven’t seen it, go watch it!)

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I couldn’t decide which title I liked more, “Lord of the Onion Rings!” or “Lord of the Zero!” but anyways, here’s a piece (especially for Sam Levine) of the characters of Penn Zero as Lord of the rings characters, or at least elements of the characters~

Rippen is on a separate piece of paper, soon to be uploaded.

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Penn Zero and the gang in “Ink-Toonie” world.

A world where everything is an old cartoon!

I bet you’re also wondering why Larry is a flower, well what is a weakness for Ink? a squirting flower!

also just to clarify, Rippen’s design is based off of Pete from the Mickey Cartoons, Penn is based off Mickey, Boone is based off of a police officer, and Sashi is based off of Betty Boop, and Larry is just a flower XD

hope y’all like it!

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Rippen’s older sister Vlurgen

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June 12th

Penn’s birthday is June 12th.

Not revealing any other birthdays at this point.

Rippen’s Earth Birthday would be meaningless info anyway.

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At The End Of The Worlds

For those asking about the final moments of our Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Series Finale…

The story is what we presented and no more explanation will be given by me.

There are mysteries and unanswered questions in life and in our show, and that’s ok for me.

The song I wrote “ALL THE DAYS”, attempts to shed some light.✨

Thanks for watching, and thanks for your support. ✨🙏❤️✨

Wishing you guys all the best.

~Sam AKA PHILLIS