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I've always felt that sincerity is overrated, It just ends up punishing those who can't perform it as well as others. - from The Rehearsal S02E02

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How TV Cartoons Are Made - A (Mostly) Simplified Guide

When I was in school and wanted to work in animation, there was very little information about how cartoons are actually made. Even my professors at college knew very little about the industry as it is today. I’m sure it would’ve been better to study somewhere in California (like CalArts) to be better informed about this stuff, but I didn’t have that opportunity.

Nowadays, many kids in school have a dream career that they don’t really know much about. There’s a lot of missing bits of information and a lot of straight up lies that get circulated as fact as people try to scramble to put the pieces together on how cartoons for television are actually made.

I’ve been storyboarding for television for a while now, and there still aren’t clear resources for those wanting to get into the industry. I wanted to make the basics available to everyone, so here’s a quick rundown through the TV pipeline. Please note: all studios and productions are different. Even cartoons made within the same studio could have wildly different production guidelines. This is not a concrete explanation of how every cartoon is made; this is simply a generalized look at the “typical” television pipeline.

**DISCLAIMER** All images in this post have been sourced from blogs, twitters, scribd and flickr pages are publicly available, and no internal studio materials have been used that have not been already published publicly online. This post is influenced heavily by my own individual experience, as well as friends’.

With that said, this might be a lengthy read, so let’s go!

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zelderonmorningstar

That beat at the end though

cestuncarre

from Adventure Time S08E05 : Horse and Ball

#Adventure time #james baxter #s08e05

Upload into the cloud seems like heaven.

BLACK MIRROR S03E04

“I’m in heaven” from the documentary Glastonbury (2006) by Julien Temple for the BBC

Just seen it on VODD.

#glastonbury #Julien Temple #documentary #BBC #2006 #festival

Je ne trouve pas que la réalité soit plus convaincante que l’imagination de quelqu’un. Elles sont toutes aussi réelles qu’irréelles. Les rêves sont des expériences personnelles au même titre que la vie quotidienne éveillée. Ce sont ces expériences qui nous construisent, en profondeur. Même quand il essaie d’imiter la réalité ou de faire « vrai » à tout prix, le cinéma, par définition, n’est pas réel, mais c’est un formidable outil de communication entre les âmes.

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moldyheadcheese

“The portal-within-a-portal device heightens the fixation on dreams, and dreams-within-dreams, which is appropriate, as the Whirlpool World beyond the grotto is as alien/familiar to Ooo as Ooo is to our world. As Adventure Time and all cartoons resemble reality, Whirpool World takes the familiar personalities of Ooo, retains their essential characteristics, but mixes up their material, outward forms.”

Read the rest of my recap here: Dissolving Identity in Adventure Time’s “Beyond the Grotto”