How The Orange Islands Were Made

Even as someone who has no experience or little knowledge about TV production, I knew weekly shows had a tight schedule, but man does that really feel tight. Like someone getting sick, at the wrong time would have made a huge mess.

DeScruff

Every time I hear about how any Japanese industry works, I wonder how every worker in the country hasn't died of sheer exhaustion by now. @_@

Eyewarp

I'm surprised that you didn't go and explain how certain directions in the anime might be have done in light of this production format. If the episodes were to be made five months before release, can you imagine the reactions the anime team had when GameFreak throws a wildcard in the form of a Pokémon game. B2W2 was believed to have derailed the original plans of the BW anime, and the XY production anime were only given a year to wrap production once it became clear when SM was coming out.

Evan Bao

Western Cartoons often do voice acting first, usually because sometimes a voice actor would give some gesture or facial expression and those moments often sent as a frame of reference for animation (see Robin Williams or Mark Hamill). It often leads to much more expressive lip movements but that usually means the production is a lot longer. That is why western cartoons go on hiatus for months before resuming. Doing the voices last speeds up production and enables the series to be released on a weekly basis annually. The cost is that all lip movements in the anime is simplified to flap up and down like a ventriloquist dummy.

Evan Bao

The end credits are half offscreen.

David Dalziel

This was super cool. If there's anything similar it would be super cool if you did those too.

So they do the voices last? Am I mistaken or do western cartoons do them first?

Jesse Saunders

I wonder how different it is now that it's done digitally

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