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was doing my yearly rewatch of the great pumpkin and paused,

I honestly would like to keep as far away from the SU animation discourse as possible, but after seeing so many posts about it, I’m honestly getting really annoyed with everyone throwing words like “lazy” out there like it’s nothing. Here’s the thing; the animation itself is fine. The problem everyone is complaining about comes from the fact that the show is board driven.

In animation, the storyboarding process is pretty damn nightmarish under a strict TV schedule. Despite common belief, TV storyboards are not the same as movie boards and don’t just feature a singular basic movement. TV storyboards are really just animatics; meaning that every key frame must be conveyed in the boards. (Basically a movie board will be more inclined to use arrows to convey movement while a TV board actually has to have multiple drawings to show it.) So it’s basically animating lite.This is all because the boards/animatics are meant to be step-by-step guides to studios overseas because a constant back-and-forth for animation approval would be too time consuming.

Unlike animators who are only in charge of the scene they’re assigned to, board artists are usually in charge of the entire episode. Anyone whose ever animated will know that it can take over an hour just to animate a few seconds, so imagine being in charge of a full 20 or 10 minutes, whether it’s just keys or not. Storyboarding is probably one of the toughest parts of the industry if only because of deadlines and strict TV production schedules. The industry standard for boarding assignments tend to be 2-3 weeks, though I’ve heard many nightmare accounts of just one week.

Many storyboard artists outright advise people the exact amount of minutes you should take doing each individual drawing, and I could be wrong because I haven’t seen the Cartoon Brew article in a while, but the best advised time seems to be 2-5 minutes. Obviously, this doesn’t lead a lot of room for perfection. Storyboard drawings are often really loose and sketchy. They are still required to make the characters recognizable to help overseas staff, but being 100% on model for boards is not the goal. While it gets easier to draw the characters properly over time, time constraints are still working against you.

Now you can argue whether or not it’s a good idea to tell the animators to follow boards instead of model sheets, but please do not go accusing people of being lazy. Animation is one of the most stressful art mediums out there and while it’s fine to not like the output, insulting the staff is just so rude and condescending.

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