Last month, KoreAm spoke with Yang about her adventures on the popular Cartoon Network show and what exactly is behind these so-called “drinking and draw” sessions at work. In addition to Adventure Time, Yang also makes frequent voice appearances on Disney Channel’s original series, Gravity Falls, where she plays recurring character Candy Chiu. Meanwhile, Beemo speaks English with a Korean accent in what sounds like a digitally enhanced version of Yang’s calm and pleasant speaking voice. To humorous effect, characters, save for Jake, do not often understand what Rainicorn is saying, but she happily continues chatting. Rainicorn speaks solely in Korean throughout the show-and always without subtitles. The two got to know each other, and Ward asked her one day if she was interested in doing voice acting. Next thing she knew, they cast her as Rainicorn, a giant rainbow-unicorn hybrid creature, and Beemo, the strange yet lovable video game console who thinks he’s a real boy. While at Frederator, Yang happened to share an office wall with Pendleton Ward, who was developing Adventure Time. After she graduated, she found herself working as a storyboard artist for Family Guy, before being tapped by Frederator Studios to work on several animated shorts. Originally from South Korea, she came to the United States to study animation at CalArts in Valencia, Calif. You might say that Yang’s foray into voice acting was a case of being at the right place at the right time. It’s a show that finds its flavor in just how random and outlandish every misadventure becomes. Her soft-spoken, easy-on-the-ears sound box provides the voices for Lady Rainicorn and Beemo on Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, the odd-ball comedy about a boy, Finn, and his dog, Jake, living in the Land of Ooo, a post-apocalyptic candyland of sorts. When Niki Yang answers the phone, I’m startled at how much she sounds like the quirky, adorable characters she portrays on TV. This story originally published in KoreAm Journal May 2013. Niki Yang speaks life into two characters on Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time.
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