Released on = March 5, 2007, 12:52 pm

Press Release Author = Aaron H. Bynum / AnimationInsider.net

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Animation Insider recently had the opportunity to speak with
Shawn Patterson, composer for \'El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera.\' Ambitious
and dedicated to his medium, Patterson is a composer for TV and film; and his
contributions to the new Nickelodeon television animation are a variety of
beautiful, theatrical theme song and score. Animation enthusiasts interested in
learning more about the production of one of Saturday morning\'s hottest new titles,
need only learn more about Patterson\'s great work in the new animated action-comedy
\'El Tigre.\'

Press Release Body = For Immediate Release \\ Aaron H. Bynum, Animation Insider News
\\ Chicago, Illinois USA \\ press contacts: abynum.ai[at]gmail.com

AnimationInsider.net Interviews Shawn Patterson, Composer for EL TIGRE
This press document is a notification that recognizes AnimationInsider.net as
interviewing Shawn Patterson, composer for television and film. Patterson, whose
music and score composition for the Nickelodeon television animation, highlight the
new action-adventure series produced at Nicktoons Studios in Burbank, CA.

March 5, 2007 --- Internet news and information group AnimationInsider.net is
pleased to announce a recently published interview with composer for TV and film
Shawn Patterson, the man behind the creative music of \'El Tigre: The Adventures of
Manny Rivera.\' The interview is one of the newest articles added to the website\'s
subsection \"The Animated Voice,\" which houses editorials and interviews regarding
the animation and comics industries.

Composer for TV and film Shawn Patterson recently took time out of his busy schedule
to speak with AnimationInsider.net\'s News Editor about his work featured in the new
Nickelodeon animated television series \'El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera.\'
A new program whose art direction, witty dialogue and musical composition easily
surpass the quality of other, contemporary Saturday-morning cartoons; \'El Tigre\' is
a fun and exciting animation through and through. The TV animation, co-created and
co-executive produced by Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua, utilizes musical
theme and score composition by Shawn Patterson, a theme and score beautifully
representative of the living, breathing Latino culture within which \'El Tigre\'
operates.

In the Animation Insider interview, Shawn Patterson talks about his experience with
the animation industry, his approach to writing music and his work as it appears in
Nickelodeon\'s new series \'El Tigre.\' For this fun and unique television animation,
Patterson draws on his experience and studies in traditional jazz theory, and
improvisation to create a distinct, diverse and confidently eclectic aural
environment. Complex and cinematic yet warm and familiar, Shawn Patterson\'s musical
composition is in perfect harmony with the ambitious storytelling of \'El Tigre.\'

\"I think that in many ways I wanted to be a part of film and storytelling,\"
Patterson responded when asked about the origin of his ambition for film and
television musical composition. Storytelling, he comments, has always been the
component of film and television production whose gravity was greatest. The son of
a multi-instrumentalist, and many a time an understudy of well-known jazz musicians
and composers, Patterson believes that the best way to emphasize one\'s passion for
the music industry, as well as to find a taste for the gravity of composing for
television or film, is to experience it personally.

At the center of \'El Tigre\' is Manny Rivera, a well-meaning but ultimately very
easily persuaded ten-year-old boy who derives adventure and mischief alike from his
superhero/super villain persona \"El Tigre.\" The son of a revered superhero Rodolfo
\"White Pantera\" Rivera, and the grandson of a famed super villain, his Granpapi
\"Puma Loco\"; Manny adventures throughout the urban melting pot that is Miracle City,
in search of ways to both defend justice as well as ways to subvert it. Thanks to
persuasive friends and an inherent sense of ambivalence, Manny learns the good and
the bad of the world in this smart and colorful television animation from
Nickelodeon.

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AnimationInsider.net Interviews Shawn Patterson, Composer for EL TIGRE
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