Stephen Hillenburg’s net worth is $90 Million. Also know about Stephen Hillenburg bio, salary, height, age weight, relationship, and more …

Stephen Hillenburg Wiki Biography

• Stephen McDannell Hillenburg was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, the USA on August 21, 1961. 
• Stephen is a well-known marine biologist as well as a film director and producer. 
• Stephen is best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated series “SpongeBob Square Pants.” 
• So, exactly how wealthy is Stephen Hillenburg? 
• According to sources, Stephen’s net worth is $90 million, a figure that rises steadily with revenue from directorial film ventures, voice acting, and his job as a marine biologist. 
• Stephen Hillenburg grew up in Anaheim, California. 
• Stephen Hillenburg earned a bachelor’s degree in animation from the California Institute of the Arts, and his net worth began to rise as a result of his work in the film industry. 
• Along with its creator Joel Murray, Stephen began working as a co-writer and co-producer on the popular television series “Rocko’s Modern Life.” 
• Stephen Hillenburg’s successful start with “Rocko’s Modern Life” led to his own project, the animated television series “SpongeBob SquarePants.” 
• Stephen has won six Annie Awards and one Emmy Award for his work on the “SpongeBob SquarePants” series. 
• United Plankton Pictures, a production company created by Stephen Hillenburg in 1998, developed “SpongeBob SquarePants.” 
• Stephen also provided the voice for Potty the Parrot. 
• Hillenburg worked on “SpongeBob SquarePants” as a writer, executive producer, showrunner, and storyboard director. 
• In terms of his personal life, Stephen Hillenburg has been married to Karen Hillenburg, a chef who also teaches at a cooking school, since 1994. 
• Clay Hillenburg was born in 1998 to the Hillenburgs. 
• The family is now residing in San Marino, California. 
• Stephen enjoys a range of activities, including scuba diving, snorkeling, and surfing. 
• The popular film director enjoys painting surreal seascapes, which he says are very personal to him. 
• Wikipedia IMDB $90 Million August 21, 1961 Animator Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Role Fagerbakke, Bill California Institute of the Arts Carolyn Lawrence’s formal name is Carolyn Lawrence. 
• Hillenburg Humboldt State University is a public research university in northern California. 

Stephen Hillenburg Quick Info

Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

• Working as a marine science educator, I had the chance to see how enamored kids are with undersea life, especially tide pool creatures. By combining this knowledge with my love for animation, I came up with SpongeBob SquarePants.
• Even the villainous Plankton, he’s still flawed and you still root for him in a way, and the style of humor is simple and it’s about human behavior, and everybody can identify with that.
• At first, I drew a few natural sponges — amorphous shapes, blobs — which was the correct thing to do biologically as a marine science teacher. Then I drew a square sponge and it looked so funny. I think as far as cartoon language goes he was easier to recognize. He seemed to fit the character type I was looking for. [Washington Post, Oct. 15, 2001]
• When you set out to do a show about a sponge, you don’t expect the kind of appeal that he’s had. [Detroit News, August 8, 2002]
• I think the connection to SpongeBob is that sponges are the most elastic, changing, plastic creatures . . . and I wanted him to be able to do really magical things. So [SpongeBob] has these really creative moments when he can re-form himself. But most sponges in the ocean are sedentary: They attach themselves to a rock and sit and filter-feed the rest of their lives, and reproduce, and that’s about it. Not that they are not interesting, but they are not . . . mobile. They don’t cook Krabby Patties! [Washington Post, Oct. 15, 2001]
• [when asked why the octopus has six tentacles instead of eight:] “Technically I just thought he’d be a little too cumbersome as a character to have too many legs visible. Maybe that’s why he’s so angry!”
• Our characters act silly, even totally ridiculous at times, and most of our jokes don’t come out of pop-cultural references. It seems like we’re aiming at a child audience, everyone can laugh at the basic human traits that are funny. It’s playful, the humor is playful, the world is playful.
• We want the show to be really funny. But I think in the end the message is: Treat people the way you expect to be treated. And another connection to any sort of message is that a lot of the stories come out of the personal experience I and the other writers had as kids–the harsh lessons in life which are usually very funny in retrospect, like maybe what happens when you learn your first curse word and you don’t know what it means. [Washington Post, Oct. 15, 2001]
• “There is something kind of unique about [SpongeBob]. It seems to be a refreshing breath from the pre-irony era. There’s no sense of the elbow-in-rib, the tongue-in-cheek aesthetic that so permeates the rest of American culture — including kids’ shows like the Rugrats. I think what’s subversive about it is it’s so incredibly naive — deliberately. Because there’s nothing in it that’s trying to be hip or cool or anything else, hipness can be grafted onto it.” — Robert Thompson, professor at the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, in the New York Times, July 21, 2002.

Stephen Hillenburg Important Facts

• As a child he loved the films of Jacques Cousteau, so Stephen Hillenburg earned a degree in natural resource planning and interpretation, with an emphasis in marine resources from Humboldt State University (Arcata, Calif.) in 1984. For three years he taught marine biology at the Orange County Marine Institute (now known as the Orange County Ocean Institute), in Dana Point, California. He had always enjoyed drawing and painting, so he pursued a master’s-degree program in experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia. All these experiences came together to create SpongeBob SquarePants.

Stephen Hillenburg Filmography

Stephen Hillenburg Awards