AnimationWorld Magazine — February 8, 2019
Q&A: Ten Questions with ‘BoJack Horseman’ Director Amy Winfrey
Following this past Saturday night’s 46th annual Annie Awards, AWN had a chance to catch up with BoJack Horseman director Amy Winfrey for a Q&A about her work on the hit series, which took home two statuettes that evening — one for voice acting in the episode “Free Churro” for Will Arnett, who voices the titular character, and the second for best general audience animated television/broadcast production for “The Dog Days are Over.”
Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and designed by graphic artist Lisa Hanawalt, BoJack Horseman revolves around a legendary but fatally flawed former 90s sitcom star from the family-favorite sitcom Horsin’ Around, who has been trying to find his way through a muddle of self-loathing, whisky and failed relationships. The series is produced by The Tornante Company for Netflix and is animated at ShadowMachine.
Winfrey, who has worked on the hit animated for all of its five seasons and is currently in production on Season 6, directed both “Free Churro,” in which BoJack eulogizes his mother at the wrong funeral, and “The Dog Days Are Over,” where Diane Nguyen (voiced by Alison Brie) divorces Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins) and travels to Vietnam to get away from it all.
The creator of the 2008 Nickelodeon television series Making Fiends, Winfrey was an animator on the first and second season of Comedy Central’s South Park, and also animated the 1999 feature South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. She just finished up directing on Hanawalt’s new show for Netflix, Tuca and Bertie, and is also working on the second episode of her new independent web cartoon Hooray for Hell with her husband Peter Merryman.