![]() We also produced posters and, later, an actual comic book was published. We created the entire visual vocabulary from character design to the idea of a widescreen letterboxing format to lend an air of self-importance. The show’s writers had created the ongoing science-fictional character, Tek Jansen, and now wanted to expand on the concept by producing a series of cartoons about him. This would be the 5 th project I’d collaborated with Stephen on. Our next project, consisting of In Show episodic animated cartoons, was the Tek Jansen/Alpha-Squad 7 series for The Colbert Report in the season 2007-08. It was a Schoolhouse Rock parody (our second – we’d done one for SNL a couple years prior) and I later found out that Stephen Colbert (who was the voice of Ace in the Ambiguously Gay Duo) had been instrumental in pulling us into this. I’d love to work with you all!” In the fall of 2002 she did just that, and we were in production on a piece that aired several years in a row: Midterm Elections. If there’s ever a concept you guys have that enters our realm of animation, please let me know. Everyone in our studio loved the show and I reached out to the Creator/Executive Producer Madeline Smithberg and explained: “We love your show and seem to have very similar sensibilities. Another phenomenon was taking hold as well: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. These productions were garnering awards and screening in festivals worldwide. It was a one-off production and took about two weeks to design and produce.įrom the animation created for The Late Show with David Lettermanīy the year 2000 we were riding the crest of both our commercial work and our cartoons for SNL. We used a Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo-type scenario to showcase Biff’s imaginary exploits as a kid’s show detective who exposes the Dangerous Halloween Mummyas the show’s host, Dave. In direct response to our SNL work, CBS’s The Late Show With David Letterman reached out in 1998 to have us create a short cartoon starring one of the program’s regular characters, stagehand Biff Henderson. We created these cartoons exclusively from 1996 to 2000, and then intermittently to 2012. The other important aspect of our relationship was the fact that NBC covered us with total indemnification for the work we did. This was a crucial aspect of being able to meet schedules and budgets. ![]() I had recently switched almost all our production over to digital ink & paint, foregoing the traditional painting on acetate celluloid, shooting on 35mm motion picture film and finishing by transferring to videotape. They ranged from 1.5 to 5.5 minutes in length and the production schedule interestingly enough ranged from 1.5 to 5 weeks. It was all negotiated on the fly, on a per cartoon basis, but after the first two or three, we were able to come to a loosely structured agreement. No one knew how many we would be doing, what they would ultimately be like, how long they would take or how much they would cost. By September of 1996 we were in production on this series of cartoons dubbed, Saturday TV Funhouse. After The Dana Carvey Show was canceled over the summer of 1996, Robert pitched the idea of doing a variety of cartoons like this to SNL creator Lorne Michaels. It concerned the heroic exploits of two comic book, Saturday Morning-type superheroes, Ace and Gary, who were Batman & Robin-like characters, but with villains that were more obsessed with whether or not they were gay than their dastardly exploits. ![]() We had produced a cartoon, itself a short interstitial standalone film, entitled The Ambiguously Gay Duo, that I co-created with SNL writer and producer Robert Smigel for the short-lived Dana Carvey Show. It was not actually created and produced for the program. If there was, it was acquired as an existing piece to air. Early, Silent and Pre-cinematic Animationįrom its very beginning in 1975, Saturday Night Live has always been an outlet for independently produced short films, but animation was not something the show’s producers had much, if any, contact with.CFP dedicated to accepted SAS 2020 presenters.The Persistence of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.The Interdisciplinary Opportunity of Animation. ![]()
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