Vivienne Medrano

Vivienne Maree Medrano (born October 28, 1992), known online as Vivziepop, is a Salvadoran-American showrunner, animator, illustrator, comic creator, and voice actress, best known for creating the web cartoon pilot, Hazbin Hotel, and web series, Helluva Boss.

In Helluva Boss, she voiced the characters Keenie and Deerie.

Early Life
Vivienne was born and raised in Maryland. She studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, graduating in 2014. In 2016, she attended a two week summer course at Gobelins, L'École de L'Image, school of visual communication and arts in Paris.

In 2012, she started a webcomic called Zoophobia. The comic series gained a dedicated fan-following, but it’s currently on an indefinite hiatus since November 2016. During her education at SVA, she uploaded her third-year thesis film The Son of 666 (2013) to YouTube, along with her senior thesis film Timber (2014), which won the 2014 Dusty Award.

In October 2014, after graduating from SVA, she uploaded a fan-animated music video to YouTube, featuring Zoophobia character JayJay singing Die Young by Ke$ha. The video currently has over 70 million views. VivziePop talked about it "boosting her channel up" and helping her gain an audience early in her career.

Career
In July 2016, she moved to California. Before she beginning her development on Hazbin Hotel as a planned tv show, she worked as an animator in the internet series Too Loud! created by Nico Colaleo on DreamworksTV, alongside Ashley.

Trivia

 * Vivienne loves musicals and horror movies/horror aesthetics.
 * Some of her favorite musicals include: Annie (a musical she fondly recalls getting the lead role in as a child), Little Shop of Horrors, and Hello Dolly.
 * Her media influences include: Cats Don’t Dance, The Looney Tunes, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Invader Zim, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman era Disney musicals, and Batman: The Animated Series.
 * She cites darker media and stories containing strong villain characters as something she gravitates towards. The Joker from the 90's animated Batman series is one of her all-time favorite fictional characters.
 * She loves animals.
 * She is a cat person and has three of her own; Pixel, Honey, and as of July 11th 2020, she added a new adoptee, Nugget.
 * She is bisexual.
 * She was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). She discusses issues managing such a heavy workload with the disorder, mentioning how it allows her to hyperfocus and get a lot done over short periods of time, before burning out very quickly.
 * Her favorite holiday is Christmas.
 * She previously worked on Too Loud with cleanup artist Ashley Nichols.
 * She draws on a Wacom Cintiq 22 HD, and she primarily sketches and makes corrections for the shows she works on in Paint Tool Sai.
 * She was featured in 2010, 2011, and 2014 on Drawing Tutorials.com, a YouTube channel started by SVA professor Matthew Archambault, and gave sketchbook tours.
 * Vivienne met several of the voice actors who would eventually be cast in the Hazbin Hotel pilot several years prior to casting.
 * After Vivienne's Die Young video became successful on YouTube, she was contacted by Mick Lauer, who brought her into his fold of Newgrounds artist friends, inviting her to feature on the MAGFest 2016: Animation Panel with him.
 * Christopher Niosi, who met Vivienne in the School of Visual Arts (and was given special thanks in her thesis film, Son of 666), was the one who suggested Monica Franco for the role of Vaggie, before the pilot had started production and before casting had even begun.
 * She created the character of Alastor in high school, making him the earliest created of the characters to later feature in Hazbin Hotel, followed by Angel Dust, who she created in her last year of college.
 * The pilot episode for Hazbin Hotel was set to air on October 28th because it was her birthday.
 * She is very particular about how her characters look and sound.
 * She is a big fan of Weird Al Yankovic, as she revealed in Ask Angel Q&A #1.
 * She expressed a wish to have Weird Al voice a character on Hazbin Hotel, although she did not reveal who.
 * When asked if she could hang with any of the characters of Hazbin Hotel, she said she would hang with Charlie and Alastor, as Angel and Husk would be likely to make fun of her.
 * She has unfinished and shelved projects such as the JayJay Returns Fan Animated Music Video, the pilot for her project, and SVA Thesis Film Timber, a musical short film entitled 'Allison', and a short film with the working title 'Classic'.
 * Vivienne prefers her characters (excluding the background characters) to have their own unique voice actor. This was one of the reasons given for her recasting the character of Millie from pilot to show in Helluva Boss, originally voiced by Erica Lindbeck, who also voiced Loona.
 * As well as animation, Vivienne provided the voice of "Sara with an H" on "Too Loud" among other additional voices replacing cartoonist Julie Vickerman when the production of Twelve Forever made recording for a show a scheduling conflict.
 * Subsequently, Vivienne later voiced the cat Poopsie St. Poodles in Too Loud creator Nico Colaleo's online series, Ollie and Scoops.
 * Her Impsona has made a cameo in two episodes of Helluva Boss so far. First in "Loo Loo Land", during the scene wherein Loo Loo welcomes Moxxie and Millie to Loo Loo Land, and again in “Spring Broken” as part of the clients falling in line to hire I.M.P. for their services.
 * One of Vivienne's nicknames (and a long-running inside-joke among the Helluva Boss crew), is "the Cashier", originated from her providing a bit-part voice for a nameless cashier in the episode "Murder Family" in Helluva Boss.