Capturing a Cornerstone of Urban Culture in Comedic Cartoon Series
THE CHALLENGE
The Challenge? There are so many when producing entertainment for public consumption. Budget, Talent, Writers, Animators all play a part in making a play write entertaining and this production was no different. The first challenge was the character development. I wanted to use characatures of the talent voicing the characters planning for live appearances to be a part of the overall business plan in the future. The second challenge was recording the voices of the talent engaged in live conversation when they were actually located in two different
cities. We ended up running a live teleconference at recording studios on each side running the voices through control boards as they were recorded to guarantee optimal fidelity in the recording.
THE JOURNEY
Next we needed to transcribe the entire episode into a script then for the animators to follow. Everything from stage cues to camera direction, to facial expressions are all scripted it out for the animator to follow.
THE ARRIVAL
The premier was met with rave reviews in a test screening. The series is now being shopped around to be picked up by a major distributor.
To view and episode visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzMcoIaxjus&list=PLf_UCvwHKJXC09WtlI1jyZmCY5-n5jwF1