Simpsons how long to make an episode

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And so everybody would usually come with two, sometimes three ideas. We split because we had enough writers, and we could get more done. Getting more done with more tools and more hands is the throughline of the modern Simpsons production process. There are more people doing more jobs with more failsafes at a higher cost on The Simpsons than the majority of — if not all — animated television shows.

A writer has four to six weeks to complete rewrites. We rewrite it. In those late night television commercials that promise to make everyone a screenwriter, the script is often called the blueprint of our favorite television shows and films, a term that implies an exacting, blessed, top level instruction which the rest of the dozens if not hundreds if not thousands of artists involved obey. That notion — as anyone who has seen a summer blockbuster or network sitcom can tell — is false.

The script is vulnerable, malleable, and subject to constant scrutiny. There's a blueprint for animated shows, but it comes later. The completed draft is like a guide through the woods, ready to be supplemented, revised, or outright redrawn if need be. Each Thursday of production, the cast, producers, and writers meet for a table read of the latest script. Some of the cast attends the table read, others phone into the room.

Occasionally, voice actor Chris Edgerly, who has handled "additional voices" for the show since , will fill in for one of the leads. He describes a critical setting in which the script is judged on its creative value, but also under the duress of external forces. A cell phone might go off or an actor might be fighting a cold, and the read's vibe shifts. The table read is my number one unpleasant experience.

On the Monday following a table read, the cast performs the voice recording, typically at the studio in LA. The actors and actresses record on separate tracks, rather than together — a common method for capturing voice-over. As work transitions from script to animation, the episode is offered to a director, who, if they accept, is given ownership of production and animation responsibilities. The director] takes the audio track, supervises the design, the motions, and what we call the acting of the animation, and [supervises] the whole visual aspect of [the episode].

According to veteran Simpsons storyboard artist Luis Escobar, the animation phase of a new season will begin between February and April, depending on the status of scripts and other production variables.

Some animators have a hiatus between seasons; others periodically transition directly from one season to the next. This is what it's going to eventually look like. An episode is assigned to a small group of initial storyboard artists at The Simpsons' work space in Southern California. Alongside the storyboard, an additional squad of designers is assigned props, characters, and backgrounds unique to the episode, all of which undergo a similar series of internal and external drafts and reviews.

In early seasons, storyboarding was done entirely on paper. In mid-season, the show switched to animatics — a series of images paired with the voice track — that would be edited on tapes.

Relatively recently, storyboards transitioned to digital, in which all of the art and audio is uploaded to an online hub accessible anywhere from computers and smart devices. Jean says he can now edit audio from his phone instead of visiting an editing bay, and video effects can be made with a few digital tweaks, instead of requiring portions of the board to be entirely redrawn.

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User Info: ScottThang. Heartless18 posted A few weeks? Try a few days. Trey and Matt are notorious for their ability to make an episode capitalizing on a recent event within a WEEK of it occurring. If memory serves, they managed to whip up an episode about Saddan Hussein within days of his capture.

User Info: Lostfan User Info: linkkhalid I recall Trey and Matt mentioning a piece of news before some local news stations even got to it. They also made their episode parodying "Inception" within one week, and "accidentally" plagiarized someone else's parody because they had only seen the trailer and were unaware that said parody was not using actual dialogue from the film.

User Info: rockoperajon. A Simpsons episode takes about 9 months to make because there's still a lot of animation done by hand, a larger cast to deal with, and they make full episode seasons, so they have to work on many episodes at once.