Animation Industry Gossip

I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE HERE. LAY IT ON ME. I WANNA HEAR SOME CRAZY STORIES THAT HAPPEN AT WHICH EVER ANIMATION STUDIOS YOU'VE WORKED FOR.

One time I told someone to lay on the ground and he did it, the absolute madman

I fucked Tara Strong

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I'll start, Nickelodeon has no clue how to save money despite how shitty they're doing.
Literally gave every employee a useless $200 log as a sick Ren & Stimpy joke.

do you guys roleplay characters she's VA for?

There's this one showrunner at CN who hired some random person off of the internet to be a storyboarder because they liked their art. This storyboarder eventually quit because the showrunner said they couldn't make their ship canon.

Remember kids, if you're going to hire somebody for an important position you should make sure they have some sort of experience first.

>Remember kids, if you're going to hire somebody for an important position you should make sure they have some sort of experience first.

So how do expect someone to gain experience in the first place?

The Sjyler Page groping incident and breakdown has been said to happen before, but it was before social media was really a thing so the studio successfully kept it hush hush.

No one was ever named, but it's widely rumored to be the Courage the Cowardly Dog guy.

This.

By having them do less important jobs and work their way up.

I once told the korerrands to do an entire scene on the ones, for NO GOOD REASON AT ALL.

I've seen that happen for Star because of the fanart they drew. It doesn't really matter if they have experience because people are gonna hire their friends mostly anyways.
Honestly though isn't kind of the showrunner's fault? Don't let storyboarders direct a episode so much, what's the point of having writers then?

I'm doing a mentorship program for a 3D animation course right now, and the teacher told me a story of someone he knew who worked on Tangled.

Someone took Gothel's rig, enlarged the breast size a ton, and then made her act out some lines from some other movie the voice actress had been in. Everybody laughed and liked it a lot, but they knew they never would be allowed to show it to anyone because Disney.

That still doesn't mean they can't end up an incompetent fuck up when they have more responsibility. The current state of the industry is a testament to that.

In all honesty it was blown way out of proportion when it actually happened. A bunch of the people involved either never actually worked there, or were nursing an unrelated grudge for Skyler and used this as a shot against him.

The actual incident was way worse for him than her. He wasn't in control of his actions and has no real memory of how it happened, and he was clearly a danger to himself more than anyone else. He had to be physically restrained and chained to a bed at the hospital for fucks sake.

And still they made it about her, a woman who was uncomfortable for thirty seconds but was in the same clique.

I once took a big busty fat 3d model of a character, think Ursula shaped, and applied the textures from the goodyear blimp on her.

If this work is ever discovered, I will surely be assasinated i my sleep.

if you hire someone who has a breakdown and leaves because of shipping then it's your fault for hiring a mentally unstable person in the first place

That's specifically because of shit like this. A lot of showrunners falling back on the bean head style graduated super quickly but got a top job because they went to a big name school and had a few friends in high places.

If you want to be a director you should go up through the story department for at least a few different projects so you actually have a feel for how it works and what needs doing.

Hell yeah

that would've made cum in the theatre.

On that note in the new Tangled cartoon series i've been hearing the art director's been stealing work from their BG artists. I believe it because the people i've met who use to work on it fucking hated that show.

This is a Christian board, sir

The VA timing cues and SFX for an episode I worked on was based on a porno. You will never ever connect the two together.

Ugh ... maybe you should just go back to Sup Forums

More like, don't hire people with mental illnesses.

>peridot and lapis
>healthy

S'how the old CN reliables did it, doing boarding on shit like Two Stupid Dogs before they got the chance to do their own pitches and shows.

has it already aired im sure I can find it out in a month or less

>Internship at Blizzard
>some weird tumblr girl is with me at the Overwatch team
>her entire designs are fag bears and some shitty steampunk trash
>doesn't get called back
>everyone else was pretty chill and cool about it
>Judenvision makes some cuts, have to sign a billion contracts not to tell anyone about Overwatch plans/characters
This new generation of "Artists" may have some skill, but holy fuck are their tastes fucking dog shit and breaking the autism scale.

Was it the Jashi scene with the leeches dying?

Most people on the industry like Bryke a lot for their work ethics.

Apparently they are really nice to work with, even going to meet every Korean animator that worked on the show.

nigga, they went there to teach them how not draw f/a/gnime Korra

>isn't kind of the showrunner's fault?

Rebecca Sugar never went to CALARTS.

She hire people like this as a mean to give them an opportunity that they didn't had, people who otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity,as a way to find talent outside of CALARTS.

It didn't worked very well.

>before social media was really a thing
What

>Rebecca Sugar never went to CALARTS
really? where did she go?

I was kicked off the original writing team for Storks, before Phil Lord and Chris Miller and the literally who from Pixar took over. It was shit and I hate that movie to this day. Fucking stupid corporate decision.

I had gay sex with Mel Blanc once.

lmao thats awfull, where they thinking itwas gonna go viral?

The quote from Patrick Harpin after the fact saying that Skylar was a "piece of shit" and how he just sat around on a couch while everyone else did the "real creative work" does make it seem like the crew had a grudge against him.

Not only that, for what I know those koreans from the studio love them.

You guys get the "talk of death and doom if you reveal anything" from the internal security guys? It's been a few years since I worked for Blizz but holy fuck that experience from Internal security in our first week was fucking Jarring.

Nothing like being casually told by some internal security goon in your week of training "yeah I'm probably going to be firing at least 50% of you for some security violation." Their NDAs were some serious shit.

School of Visual Arts on NY.

I'd make up some bullshit about Alex Hirsch having a third, lactating nipple on his back but I'm sure Sup Forums would end up believing it anyway and repeating it until the end of time.

We got the "if you mess with us you will never work in this industry again" and "give us all your social media accounts and emails, if you don't you will be gone."
Cell phones were allowed, but you couldn't be seen with it outside the bathroom or inside the offices, only a few of the head guys were allowed to use the, openly.

Shut the fuck up Alex

Not working there then.

I keep my ear to the ground near most of the major studios, so I've got this one on good authority.

Apparently, this guy called "OP" is a cock-guzzling faggot. Just can't get enough of that semen pumped into his throat. Strangest thing.

Viacom in general doesn't know how to manage their money

Paramount is eating through their wallet and losing money because all their movies are shit and I can tell you, all those channels they have aren't helping either

that's pretty typical, my guy, don't be that faggot taking a fucking selfie every ten minutes.

Shit, I can't even remember all my social media accounts.

Alex you're not fooling anyone. You've made a terrible mistake revealing yourself here.

Yeah we got that too. I had to give over all of my Blizzard related game accounts and password info as well. Any time I logged into a blizz game (was mainly playing wow at the time) they monitored my in-game chat. Got pulled into an office once for chatting in a whisper (private channel) with a friend and all he asked me was "how was your day at blizz?". He was like the only friend I told about working there and they nearly shitcanned me for that. Basically only my metrics saved my ass from losing my job right then and there for that.

Yeah it was pretty surreal. Technically I was "strongly encouraged" to not even tell my own family I worked for them at all. And when I eventually left the company, they wanted me to drive back into the office to sign more NDAs after leaving. I had already moved away from Irivine by then so I never did so.

I've got contacts at Blizzard but I haven't pursued it, seems kind of silly for me to work for a company I don't like as a consumer.

Most of the people there a chill, but be aware that you are entering a multi-million dollar business with million dollars lawyers. Development teams are cool, management and the business side are like a fucking cheese craters.
Working on a game is different than playing it, usually the game is finished then the publishers/developers decide on how to fuck shit up.

I have no fucking clue, but my friend at Nick tells me it just the culture of Nick to do dumb shit like that.

Agreed, as much as I bitch about it, the immediate co-workers and supervisors I worked with were absolutely awesome people. Totally enjoyed every day i worked with them. it was the moments that involved anyone above them that quickly drifted into shitsville territory.

Settle down doggo

I spent 4 months with Ashleigh Ball in spain to do a 10 episode cartoon

Most of the companies I've worked at have been pretty haphazard and I'm getting really tired of dealing with bad management. I'm just going to go the indie route for a while, maybe start my own studio...

owie you hurt muh feelinsss you weeni~

How would you have done it differently? How did you get into writing?

Craig Gerber (Sofia the First, Elena of Avalor) was only hired because his dad was a top guy for ESPN. Guy only did one or two independent short film work before becoming showrunner. So, nepotism.

those two shows are doing really well with the kids so he's doing something right

That's only because of princesses & you know it!

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This picture makes me so fucking mad every time I see it.

pretty sure that was the intent

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Go jack off to your fantasies somewhere else, i'm here to deliver some juicy news about Alex shitting in a the trash can incident.

My coworker told me there's this one time where Alex was working overtime at Disney and he slept over at his workplace. But the security is tight at night where if you go out of your room it triggers the alarms for the police to get there. And so there you have it, he desperately shits in the can. Poor guy didn't have time to hide it before someone came by to check on him and smelled it.

Only hints are that if you swap video with track both work, down to the mouth flap, and that the porno is not one of those clips4sale super obscure things.

I am one of the people Boulder just hired to do their new flash cartoons. Hasbro has next to no idea how to tell a story and challenge the show runners at almost every turn. I'll be amazed if these two shows work out well.

Ruining the Spike drawing was worth it for all the butthurt that insued

I bet some fucker here watched the Samurai Jack season finale.

There's a story in my country about a guy who snuck in "jarheads are faggots" between the lines of one of the biggest newspapers during the last militar dictatorship, this guy reminded me of him.

Imagine the NDA they had to sign tho, no secret is worth your livelihood desu famalamalam

Yeah imagine hahahahaha
We know you signed it faggot spill the beans

I'm sure there are plenty of people not lucky enough to go to CalArts who post their work on the web who are both sane and genuinely talented. Lauren Zuke just wasn't really either. They should have had a better hiring process.

Everything is the show runner's fault if people under them fuck up. Absolutely everything.

What's a big celebration people do that involves a first song?

>"give us all your social media accounts and emails, if you don't you will be gone."
I'm not an expert on the matter but isn't it illegal? Like, it should be a direct violation of your intimacy where someone in a position of authority forces you to give your personal information in exchange of threats.

There is nothing wrong in writing/storyboarding a gay relationship, whoever, having a meltdown because someone didn't liked your shitty ship is so wrong in so many levels

ME TOO
Faggot told me he was allergic to carrots, so guess what I stuck his ass? The fat fuck started yelling like Yosemite Sam. I came hard like one of daffy duck's psychotic breaks.

>tfw the finale ends in a DreamWorks dance party
Fuckin sweet

How geewun is it going to be anyway?

Not sure of the specifics of it, but at the very minimum they wanted to know all of the social media and game account names we used. It was apparently a stipulation of our employment acceptance. I think I only had to provide the actual login info for my blizz accounts. but this was also several years ago before the battle net app so that may have changed.

truly one can only find this sort of insight on Sup Forums
see the "leakers" spent more time grandstanding and patting their own butts while openly mocking a dude with well-known psychiatric problems
it's the same reason some assholes over at Disney started rumors about Alex Hirsch going bananas and peeing in bottles
the animation industry is filled with really petty people
fun fact: Joe Pitt assaulted Alex Hirsch and that's why he stopped working on Gravity Falls
also, speaking of John R. Dilworth, I've corresponded with him personally and he's just as fucking wacky IRL and professionally as he seemed on screen. really great guy, extremely funny, and humble.
he also married a fucking Spanish model who is super hot
animators are well known for pulling antics like this among themselves, it's how you get stuff like Dexter's Rude Removal and pic related
that's where John R Dilworth went, incidentally enough

The pee isn't a rumor. Cleaning staff had to steam clean his office carpets.

can't blame him, I've done piss bottles when I wanted to be left alone and didn't want to stop what I was doing

I don't recall this episode

Pretty much, they'll also turn down live-action skits pitched for their award shows only to use them later.

It's a storyboard jam, it was never intended to be an episode.

The scene where Stu is taking a sip from the glass, however, was actually altered and used in either a later Rugrats episode or an an episode of All Grown Up.

>zuke went full wailing tumblr narcissist
lel I remember when SUfags were actually hype that she was joining production

Lauren Zuke is now working on the new Ben 10 as a storyboarder.

>a dude with well-known psychiatric problems

Hey guys, let's let a crazy person who assaults people be in charge of one of our cartoons, because we're a charity and not a business all of a sudden.

So should we expect Ben 10 to have Lapis and Peridot rip offs being gay with each other...?

>Hey guys, let's let a crazy person who assaults people be in charge of one of our cartoons, because we're a charity and not a business all of a sudden.

The guy was medicated, but apparently forgot to take his meds before the incident took place.

Seeing as how MoA is in olved, no.

>olved
*Involved

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Good point.
MOA isn't a lazy director so he wouldnt allow Zuke's retardation to manifest itself like that and take over the show.

>Joe Pitt assaulted Alex Hirsch

Like, to what degree? Seems like they settled that rather amicably if Joe is still getting work and there's not a huge fuzz over it.

Also, Alex mentioned being a fan/friend of his art in Cal Arts, so something really had to tip over Joe.

You do know MoA is a group of people and not one person? And they are creators, but their scripts are usually the worst to work with on their shows.