Blanche Boudreaux's first stint working with the Abbotts (1998-2000)
Daniel and Rachel Stone-Abbott both gave Blanche her first job in animation. It was in June of 1998. Disney had just released Mulan and Blanche, then known by her birth name Blanche St. Pierre, had just graduated high school and went straight to work with Danny at 20th Century-Fox, where he was the executive producer of The Backstreet Project. For Blanche, it was almost destiny that she got to work on that show. During Gus's time at Nickelodeon, he introduced AJ McLean and Nick Carter to his younger sisters many years earlier. Basically, Blanche's contributions to The Backstreet Project contained Earl Ghoulman, a villain based on then-manager Lou Pearlman, plus many jabs at rival boy bands ("N-Stink" and "98 Diseases") and artists from other genres who had publicly dissed the BSB.
Other than the Backstreet Project, she animated Daphne in the Dragon's Lair movie and animated Kida in Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Of course, towards the end of 2000, after her Uncle Andre died from diabetes complications, Blanche moved to Atlanta to work for Butch Hartman on the Fairly Odd Parents.
Initially, New Line Cinema offered What's with Andy? to Blanche. She turned it down because she wanted Gus to voice Andy, but New Line told her that Ian Corlett had already been cast for the part. Again, New Line only had distribution rights to Andy during this period, but gained full custody later when CineGroupe and DiC were consolidated into New Line Animation.
Blanche on Atlanta: "Each year the Saints came to town to play the Falcons, I didn't feel comfortable going to the Georgia Dome by myself. Luckily, Del was able to join me one year since she and Luz happened to be on tour during the season."
Around 2003, she moved back to California to join Paramount on Arthur. Then in '05 she went to Warner Bros. to work on a Berenstain Bears series for the now-defunct MyTV.
