Silver Wolf

Silver Wolf

August 7, 2008 TV Episode El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera

Studio
Mexopolis, Nickelodeon
Animation studio
Nicktoons Studios
Distributor
Nickelodeon Network, Nickelodeon Animation Studios

Synopsis

A new bad boy super villain known as Silver Wolf comes to Leone and starts hanging out with Frida all the time. Frida is excited but Manny is jealous of her new friendship.

Characters

Manny Rivera/El Tigre, Grandpapi Rivera/Puma Loco, Rodolfo Rivera/White Pantera, Frida Suarez, Maria Rivera

Credits

Producing

Producer
Jorge R. Gutierrez, Sandra Equiha (Executive Producers)

Animation

Animator
Sean Szeles
Editor (Animation)
Sean Szeles

Voices

Voice
Alanna Ubach (Manny Rivera/El Tigre), Carlos Alazraqui (Granpapi Rivera/Puma Loco), Eric Bauza (Rodolfo Rivera/White Pantera), Grey DeLisle (Frida Suarez), April Stewart (Maria Rivera)

Music

Music
Shawn Patterson

Crew

Creators
Jorge R. Gutierrez, Sandra Equihua
Art Director
Roman Laney
Production Design
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Storyboard Artists
Luke Cormican, Ricky Garduno, Fred Gonzales, Ben Jones, Brandon Kruse, Fred Osmond, Katie Rice, Eddie Trigueros
Background Color Stylist
Tod Polson
Sound Designer
Bill Devine
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
D.J. Lynch
Foley Recordist
Aran Tanchum
Character Designers
Chris Battle, Steve Lambe
Background Designer
Joseph Holt
Production Coordinator
Mathias Dougherty

Production notes

A Mexican folk art-inspired animated comedy with a spaghetti Western twist. A teenage boy, Manny Rivera (El Tigre), must choose to become a great superhero, like his father, Rodolfo, or a feared supervillain, like his grandfather. Manny struggles with the daily choice of which superpower he will master, because being good is good... but being bad is fun!

This series is scheduled to run for 13 30-minute episodes, each consisting of two cartoons.

The series came about partly because its creators, Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, had looked in vain for a Hispanic cartoon show created by Hispanics. "I wanted to talk to all the other Latino creators to hear about their experiences, but I couldn't find any," Gutierrez said. "Why don't we try to pitch a cartoon about our lives?" Gutierrez and Equihua asked themselves. "Let's look at everything we love in movies and art and literature, everything we really like from Latin America, specifically from Mexico... where it's about their families and where they're from, with really personal stories."

The March 3, 2007 premiere of this series was Nickelodeon's best for a Saturday-morning series, beating the July 1999 debut of "SpongeBob SquarePants."