Natasha Allegri

Natasha Allegri (born June 18, 1986) is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, storyboard revisionist and comic book artist. She is the creator of Cartoon Hangover's and Frederator Studios' Bee and PuppyCat, and is also noted for her work as a storyboard revisionist and character designer for Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, for which she created the characters Fionna and Cake, genderswapped versions of Finn and Jake.

Early life Born in June 1986, Allegri is the daughter of a Native Okinawan mother and a Bolivian father of French, Italian and Native Bolivian descent. She watched anime and read manga and the Garfield comic strip. which is how she met Pendleton Ward. It was later developed into a series entitled Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake.

Bee and PuppyCat Allegri created and produced her own animated short, Bee and PuppyCat, for Frederator Studios' YouTube channel Cartoon Hangover which was released on July 11, 2013. The episode introduces viewers to Bee, a recently unemployed slacker, and PuppyCat, a small and mysterious creature resembling both a dog and a cat. Bee takes PuppyCat in and, in return, he helps her find strange temp work, in this case babysitting a giant fish named Wallace in Fishbowl Space. In response to the success of the short, Frederator launched a Kickstarter on October 14, 2013, to raise funds for a full season. The Kickstarter was successful, raising Frederator $872,133 toward the production of Bee and PuppyCat, the animated series. This exceeded their original goal of $600,000 and made them the 10th most crowdfunded Video and Film project to date. Allegri later said that "a studio wouldn't have aired Bee and PuppyCat" and that it could only exist online. Other stated that the crowdfunding was successful because of the "devoted...fanbase" of Adventure Time.

Comic books Allegri has created multiple graphic novels/comic books starring "Fionna and Cake" and "Bee and PuppyCat", respectively. and Superbook, Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service, Additionally, she served as a storyboard revisionist for the Bravest Warriors episode "Butter Lettuce" and has contributed to the miniseries Over the Garden Wall as writer and storyboard artist.

In 2017, Allegri directed "The Summoning," created by Elyse Castro, for Frederator's Cartoon Hangover channel. It was the first short cartoon from GO! Cartoons.

In 2019, Allegri was co-author of the OpenBSD 6.5 poster and was the author of the OpenBSD 6.6 and 7.0 posters. She was a writer for the anime series Cannon Busters the same year.