Vivienne Medrano

Vivienne Maree Medrano (A.K.A. Vivziepop/Vivzmind/Viv) is the creator, director, lead animator, and producer of the upcoming Hazbin Hotel Pilot.

Early life
Vivienne was born and raised in Maryland. She studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and graduated in 2014. In 2012, she started a webcomic called ''Zoophobia. ''The comic series gained a large cult following. It is currently in indefinite hiatus since November 2016. During her education she uploaded her third year thesis film The Son of 666 (2013) and 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 on YouTube, where Zoophobia character JayJay sang Die Young by Kesha. The video currently has over 40 million views and a 96% approval rating on YouTube. She mentioned it "boosted her channel up" and helped her gain an audience early in her career.

In the Summer of 2016, she briefly studied at Gobelins Summer School in Paris, France.

Career
In July 2016, she moved to California. Before she started developing Hazbin Hotel, she worked as an animator in the internet series "Too Loud!" created by Nico Colaleo on DreamworksTV.

Trivia

 * She loves Weird Al Yankovic, as revealed in Ask Angel Q&A #1.


 * She also said she would love to have Weird Al voice a character on Hazbin Hotel, though she did also say she won't say who.


 * She loves Musicals.
 * She had a webcomic called Zoophobia, which is currently on an indefinite hiatus.
 * Alastor is the character from Hazbin Hotel Vivziepop has had the longest, as she created him in high school.
 * She knows all of the characters backstories.
 * An exciting part of the story she excited to get to later in the series is Heaven.
 * She does a stream with Angel Dust called Ask Angel with Seth Atkinson as the voice of Angel himself.
 * She does a stream called VIVZIE STREEM where she does sketches and answers comments and questions in donations from fans.
 * She also said in her VIVZIE STREEM- Let's Get it Started-#2 that she uploads the stream on Mondays at 6:00pm.
 * She previously worked on Too Loud with cleanup artist Ashley Nichols.
 * Her goal for Hazbin Hotel after the Pilot besides the comics is a real full season. Whether it's done through a kickstarter or pitching it to a network.
 * She draws on a cinque 22 HD and she primarily sketches in Paint Tool Sai.