On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Oct 11, 9:49 am, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Thoughts? > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo > > > > Oh please tell me this has resulted in a media sh*tstorm in the US. > > Please oh please. > > If you consider over 100 articles gleaned by Google News a > (bleep)storm, yeah. > > According to the BBC, Banksy claims that the sequence was held up by > production delays, fights with Fox Broadcast Standards and a > threatened walkout by Film Roman, the company that produces the > animation for the show: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11510513 > > Of course, to animation fans this is not exactly breaking news (and > one can argue that the artists are treated very well at Rough Draft, > the Korean company that does most "Simpsons" episodes these days, even > if they aren't making Local 839 Screen Cartoonists Guild scale). > http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2027768,00.html Followup: This piece was posted in Time about South Korea's reaction to the sequence, and an example of a change that happened between storyboard and final. (The original storyboards, for example, showed animators wearing pointed Vietnamese hats, which were later replaced with more generic caps resembling those of postal workers.) -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
