AS Blows. You guys should just play King of the Hill during all of those shitty shows you play.

What, in your opinion, what's the best show that ever appeared on Adult Swim? Also, what was the best show you ever worked on and do you have a favorite episode that you worked on of that particular show or any other kind of show? Also, how did you get into this in the first place and how can other people do it?

Moral Orel was like, the only claymation I liked. Or was the Nightmare Before Christmas claymation?

At 9/6/12 02:48 PM, DevinArcane wrote: Moral Orel was like, the only claymation I liked. Or was the Nightmare Before Christmas claymation?

I'm fairly certain it was, because full length CGI movies weren't made until 1995 and TNBC came out in 1993.

Just say someone wanted a job at AS and had the talent for such a job, where would they apply.

talent is not relevant to me

Sooo...Did they ever put it in your butt?

At 9/6/12 12:17 PM, FattyWhale wrote: AS Blows. You guys should just play King of the Hill during all of those shitty shows you play.

king of the hill isn't even that funny.

At 9/1/12 11:21 AM, SneakyGameBoy wrote: Finally someone that's actually interesting on this forum! So was working on animations for [AdultSwim] alot of hard work?

Yea, the teams are relatively small for TV so there's a lot of spontaneous responsibilities depending on the director's actions. It's always a bit different each time around, which is a great challenge. I do enjoy a fair challenge, but due dates can be very nerve racking when 300 shots are needed within 18 days. Working with people you consider friends can be a double edged sword too; as say, what happened with me when I got sick over an (optional) sunday workday. I came in anyway, looked like shit, but did about half a days work. In the moment, I cared more about the burden it'd add to my friend to be absent as opposed to the overall project.

Lets just say, I had to fix some stuff up come Monday x.x

At 9/6/12 02:23 PM, Ericho wrote: What, in your opinion, what's the best show that ever appeared on Adult Swim? Also, what was the best show you ever worked on and do you have a favorite episode that you worked on of that particular show or any other kind of show? Also, how did you get into this in the first place and how can other people do it?

At 9/12/12 12:44 PM, SizzleBolt wrote: Just say someone wanted a job at AS and had the talent for such a job, where would they apply.

talent is not relevant to me

Both of your questions are similar but "best" show would be rather subjective from me, especially if I worked on it. One of my favorite shows was 12 oz mouse lol but Venture Brothers for their quality. As for what I've worked on, definitely the upcoming Moral Orel special.

Like I said earlier, these studios are small so the #1 benefit you have is the lack of bureaucratic BS as opposed to a major studio like NBC, WB, ABC, etc. Basically, getting one person on your side is a lot more powerful to your potentially working there. I can attribute all my [adultswim] work to one person who I honestly befriended. His glorious pessimism and love/hate relationship with pop culture was hilarious to me so we got along.

Yet, I got my foot in the door when responding to a mandy.com post towards an internship. You'd be surprised how hard it is to keep up with everyone spread among many studios so many jobs are posted online now-a-days. Do your research, find the studios you want to work for and find out where they list their positions (with RSS feed preferred.)

At 9/12/12 02:30 PM, Conal wrote: Can you provide better info on how to use motion tracking than the numb-nuts on YouTube? I need to censor faces.

Use the motion tracker in AE, it ain't some fancy plugin or stand-alone program but it does the job. Set a tracker on the person's face if able; if not, then on a tie or something that moves very closely in relation to the face. You may have to manually adjust this later. The less trackers the better in most cases too.

Hit play, capture your keyframes. Create a shape layer then apply a blur, mosaic or fractal noise effect + some blending modes to shimmer bits of the original video. Then, mask around the person's face on frame 1. Go to the motion tracker panel, select the shape layer from the drop down and hit "apply." Your face layer should now move in relation to your tracker.

Adjust and experiment accordingly. This is as manual, but powerful, motion tracker so understand this before experimenting with the pro plugins like AEtoC4D

So is adult swim ever going to get some "serious" adult oriented stuff like teletoon used to i.e. The hellspawn, the maxx, spicy city ect?

I like alot of the comedy stuff that's on adultswim, but fuck it feels like all the adult oriented animations are coming out of Japan, and that sucks since:

a). Stuff from Japan is weird, and for some reason always turns pornographic.
b). We always end up with shitty english dubs of the good stuff.
c). Lastly it would be nice to have adult cartoons not done in an anime style for once.

And if not, can you give us the reason why, is it like a censorship issue, or is there just not enough of a market for the darker stuff, I noticed even the boondocks is censored on adultswim, so I'm just wondering why?

Thanks,
- Celx

Do you recieve any speical privledges for working at AS?

Have you met anyone famous we might know?

Whats your next big career step? Nickolodeon, disney - big screen or different path?

Have you ever met Dino Stamatopoulos?

Is he as creepy as i imagine he is?

At 9/6/12 12:47 PM, mandog wrote: Is adultswim in association with Illuminati

EVERYONE is associated with the illuminati. Even NG.

As per the anime man, I don't know.

At 9/26/12 03:36 PM, homor wrote: Have you ever met Dino Stamatopoulos?

Is he as creepy as i imagine he is?

Yes, actually. He served me watermelon once while we worked. I personally liked Dino's work ethic and attitude as it was a refreshing spin from the normal up tight producer. He's relaxed, but has a very specific vision. We had to keep in mind that any effect we do, whether as clean up or new, had to feel real & practical.

I was excited to work with him because I was a fan of not only Moral Orel, but of his work on Mr. Show, SNL & other projects that I followed closely during my teens.

At 9/26/12 03:32 PM, ICY-HURR wrote: Do you recieve any speical privledges for working at AS?

Outside of killer screening locations (like Skywalker Ranch), not really. Most of our perks come from simply being professionals in the industry (pro-passes for comic con, voting of award nominees, etc.) Coming from KY, having anything more than a workspace was a benefit. When I worked on Robot Chicken, we had killer vegan food almost perpetually due to a nice lunch budget & (later) an in-house chef. Had a lot of fun while it lasted.

Have you met anyone famous we might know?

Dan Harmon was nice, although I made an ass of myself. Justin Roiland, who you may not know by name, was awesome. He's the voice of lemongrab in adventure time. Has an upcoming show called Rick & Morty. There's others but eh.

Whats your next big career step? Nickolodeon, disney - big screen or different path?

Man, honestly. I don't know. My career is a bit of a messy one. My college decided to inform me that I had, in fact, not graduated five years after leaving. Luckily, I had built up my skills enough to work at places like [adultswim] who frankly don't really care too much about academic achievement as opposed to talent. I see myself moving up to supervising and possibly developing someone else's show first before considering any grander studio goals. Yet, even with the achievements I've made, it'll be very tough for me to find similar work at the major studios.

I think that it is awesome that I just randomly found an AS animator on here lols. I have to post some random shit in this thread. Moral Oral is awesome! I used to watch that shit all the time in the middle of the night. Hmmm now for a question ummmm oh haha do you know who writes the AS bumps? Are there like one or two people who make em up and that is all they do or does the staff take turns? Always wondered this for some reason.

Hey Newgrounds folks. I'm back. This time to inform ya'll of an interview I did with Justin Roiland, who is the voice of Lemongrab in Adventure Time. Article is available here.

I did two quick comics for the article too, which was a lot of fun. I might do more of these if I get a good reaction!

If presented with the opportunity to make your own show, what would be your first pitch?

At 10/22/12 01:54 PM, TehSlapHappy wrote: If presented with the opportunity to make your own show, what would be your first pitch?

I've actually made a few pitches already, but I'd love to do an animal allegory of human behavior. Like a modern day Animal Farm.

Some of my earlier pitches included a 3D print stop motion show where you can submit characters & we'll animate them. Another was to implement source filmmaker in a SciFi story. And another, which is being looked at now, is about cats saving the space time continuum.

So yea, lots of stuff :)

How would someone go about becoming an artist for a company like [adultswim]?

At 10/22/12 02:34 PM, stabbyclaus wrote:

At 10/22/12 01:54 PM, TehSlapHappy wrote: If presented with the opportunity to make your own show, what would be your first pitch?

I've actually made a few pitches already, but I'd love to do an animal allegory of human behavior. Like a modern day Animal Farm.

Some of my earlier pitches included a 3D print stop motion show where you can submit characters & we'll animate them. Another was to implement source filmmaker in a SciFi story. And another, which is being looked at now, is about cats saving the space time continuum.

So yea, lots of stuff :)

That's pretty cool, although you know what they say about not copywriting your ideas, or did you already copywrite with the Guild?

Also, quick question: Who do I have to go to in order to possibly obtain an internship with [AS]?

At 10/22/12 02:39 PM, knightsofthecircle wrote:

At 10/22/12 02:34 PM, stabbyclaus wrote:

At 10/22/12 01:54 PM, TehSlapHappy wrote: If presented with the opportunity to make your own show, what would be your first pitch?

I've actually made a few pitches already, but I'd love to do an animal allegory of human behavior. Like a modern day Animal Farm.

Some of my earlier pitches included a 3D print stop motion show where you can submit characters & we'll animate them. Another was to implement source filmmaker in a SciFi story. And another, which is being looked at now, is about cats saving the space time continuum.

So yea, lots of stuff :)

That's pretty cool, although you know what they say about not copywriting your ideas, or did you already copywrite with the Guild?

Also, quick question: Who do I have to go to in order to possibly obtain an internship with [AS]?

Since the network is rather large and ever-changing, we tend to use public sites for internships and contract work. Check sites like mandy.com in the Los Angeles, Atlanta & New York area. Also, find the studios for the shows you actually like and google their name. Stop-motion studios tend to be based in LA but you can find all sorts of opportunity with a few well-written (and short) e-mails to the right people.

So you do claymation for as?

At 10/22/12 06:02 PM, tsukikomi wrote: So you do claymation for as?

Oh no, I do post visual effects for a couple [adultswim] shows. Mostly After Effects/Photoshop stuff.

Hey ya'll. So, after much work, new Moral Orel premieres tonight @ 12:30am (in 30 minutes for you east coast folks!) Sorry for the random shoutout but I'll answer any more questions if ya got them. I'm bound to stare awkwardly at my phone throughout the premiere party and can post pictures if ya'll want them. It wasn't too long ago that I was watching this show air in my parents basement & I'm enthusiastic to call myself part of the team.

Thanks for reading and all the questions over the last couple of months.
-VFX Artist on Beforal Orel.

At 11/20/12 12:05 AM, stabbyclaus wrote: Hey ya'll. So, after much work, new Moral Orel premieres tonight @ 12:30am (in 30 minutes for you east coast folks!) Sorry for the random shoutout but I'll answer any more questions if ya got them. I'm bound to stare awkwardly at my phone throughout the premiere party and can post pictures if ya'll want them. It wasn't too long ago that I was watching this show air in my parents basement & I'm enthusiastic to call myself part of the team.

Thanks for reading and all the questions over the last couple of months.
-VFX Artist on Beforal Orel.

The special made me watch Moral Orel in order to understand it better. So, did you guys get lucky enough for the 4th season, or maybe a consideration for it?

At 12/10/12 11:23 PM, Manly-Chicken wrote:

At 11/20/12 12:05 AM, stabbyclaus wrote: -VFX Artist on Beforal Orel.

Is Beforel Orel going to become it's own series?

Please let it be yes.

I really hope so. All I know is that they got a new office so somethinggot picked up. As to what that is, I don't know till post due to NDAs. Me too though, me too!