April 24th, 2019: Bill Peet

[Clodfobble]

Oh man, the Disney art department is (or at least was, in the hand-animation days) a brutal factory. My wildly-talented cousin (nationally recognized, blah blah blah) was offered a job there in his early 20s, and he was suitably excited until he was told that his position would be "blue." As in, he'd get to fill in all the blue parts of the drawings. Meanwhile, there were guys who were pissed off because they'd been there for years and were still coloring in neon-orange, or vomit-green, and here this young upstart had been given blue right out of the gate! He didn't take the job.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I read somewhere that Pixar making a film like Toy Story where it's computer rendered, it would take banks and banks of computers 24 hours to render one minute of screen time. Imagine how much work that would be by hand.

[glatt]

I read somewhere that The Simpsons farmed out the in-betweener work to China, at least in the early days. Maybe it's all computers now.

[fargon]

Originally Posted by glatt

I read somewhere that The Simpsons farmed out the in-betweener work to China, at least in the early days. Maybe it's all computers now.

I thought it was South Korea.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Oh man, the Disney art department is (or at least was, in the hand-animation days) a brutal factory. My wildly-talented cousin (nationally recognized, blah blah blah) was offered a job there in his early 20s, and he was suitably excited until he was told that his position would be "blue." As in, he'd get to fill in all the blue parts of the drawings. Meanwhile, there were guys who were pissed off because they'd been there for years and were still coloring in neon-orange, or vomit-green, and here this young upstart had been given blue right out of the gate! He didn't take the job.

"Listen here, you blue-coloring SOB..."

ha ha ha !!