The Adventures of BD

The Adventures of BD is an American animated television series created by Mala Miles. The show first premiered on Nickelodeon on June 12, 1998.

Miles first conceived the series in late 1990 with his idea of "building a whole world" around three characters, Bony Ring, Troy Bottoroff and Leontyev Valeryevich. The characters first appeared as various shorts beginning in March 1995. The cartoons were adapted into a half-hour television series in June 1998.

Premise
The series focuses on the adventures of Bony "Doc" Ring (voiced by Tom Kenny), Troy "Tenzin Rigzin" Bottoroff (voiced by Jason Marsden) and Leontyev Dmitri "Averon" Valeryevich (voiced by Doug Lawrence), who live in the city of RDMville set in 2013. They have to outwit various enemies, including Hater, Ninja Chicz, and Obey Phil, from taking over the world.

Development
Mala Miles first conceived the show in late 1990 with his idea of "building a whole world" around three characters, Bony Ring, Troy Bottoroff and Leontyev Valeryevich. He got help from friend Tom John, who helped him pitch the series to Fox Kids in 1991, along with Agent DX. Fox advertised the series in 1992, but passed on the following year.

Miles were approached by Nickelodeon executive Vanessa Coffey in 1994, while staying in a hotel. Miles pitched the series to Coffey in hopes he would "get the series somewhere." Following the sale to Cartoon Network, the network requested "various ways" to pitch the show. Miles created six shorts for two animation anthology showcases, Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon! and Nickelodeon's ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''. Nickelodeon expressed surprise at the quality of the shorts, and picked up the series in 1997.

Animation
The Adventures of BD was the first series produced by Bear Bones to be fully computer-animated. The series was originally animated using Cambridge Animation Systems, which Miles used prior with My Hero Academia. Following the acquisition of Cambridge by Toon Boom in 2009, the series switched to TVPaint Animation.