Bravest Warriors is an American animated web series set in the year 3085, that follows four teenage heroes-for-hire as they warp through the universe to save adorable aliens and their worlds using the power of their emotions.[1] It was created by animator Pendleton Ward, also the creator of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, directed by Breehn Burns, and produced by Frederator Studiosfor their Cartoon HangoverYouTube channel.[2][3] Fred Seibert, Burns, and Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi are the show's executive producers.[4] The animated series began streaming on Cartoon Hangover on November 8, 2012.[5] The series is based on a short produced for Frederator's Nicktoons Network animation incubator series Random! Cartoons that aired on January 10, 2009. A comic book adaptation published by Boom! Studios launched on October 24, 2012.[6]The show won the Shorty Awardfor Best Web Show in 2013[7]and was nominated in the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.[8] It is also a 2015 Webby Honoree.[9]
On October 20, 2016, a television series was announced that would also serve as a continuation of the web series. The TV series, which is officially considered the fourth season, is being produced by NelvanaLimited in Canada, in association with Frederator.[10][11] It started airing on VRV in the United States on December 25, 2017, and Teletoon in Canada on September 3, 2018.[12] A 21-minute documentary was released on December 11, 2017.[13][14][15][16] The television series, unlike the web series, is animated using Toon Boom Harmony and is no longer animated frame-by-frame.
As the voice acting for the television series is recorded between Los Angeles, California and Toronto, Ontario, although far from being the first show from using both SAG-AFTRAand ACTRA, it is the first[citation needed] North American animated production to credit both unions due to using more American voice actors over Canadian voice actors and it is targeted at kids aged seven to twelve
