{"id":15498,"date":"2014-09-15T00:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/each-episode-of-adventure-time-takes-about-nine\/"},"modified":"2014-09-15T00:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:17:50","slug":"each-episode-of-adventure-time-takes-about-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/each-episode-of-adventure-time-takes-about-nine\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Each episode of Adventure Time takes about nine months to produce and begins in a writer\u2019s room with series creator Ward, producers Adam Muto and Kent Osborne, and staff writer Jack Pendarvis. From that meeting, they generate a barebones, two-page outline. <\/p>\n<p>Those outlines are handed over to one of four storyboard teams who have two weeks to visually outline the episode. \u201cThey\u2019re basically directing,\u201d says Osborne. \u201cThey\u2019re writing all the jokes, editing the outline, picking all the camera shots\u2026 what the episode is going to look like.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The storyboard teams then pitch their outlines to Osborne and each other where they get notes and another two weeks to address those notes. \u201cThat is about five weeks.\u201d Osborne said. \u201cThen there\u2019s a couple weeks where the board is sent to the Network for notes and it\u2019s being prepared for a voice record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the network notes and voices are ready, the storyboards are assembled into an animatic where the cleaned up drawings, poses, and shots appear along with dialogue which takes a few more weeks to build. \u201cThere\u2019s layout design and background design and color design going on,\u201d says Osborne. \u201cThis is all to prepare for sending it overseas to Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/12\/19\/this-is-how-an-episode-of-cartoon-network-s-adventure-time-is-made.html\">This Is How an Episode of Cartoon Network\u2019s \u2018Adventure Time\u2019 Is Made &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/vellum.tumblr.com\/\">vellum<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each episode of Adventure Time takes about nine months to produce and begins in a writer\u2019s room with series creator Ward, producers Adam Muto and Kent Osborne, and staff writer Jack Pendarvis. From that meeting, they generate a barebones, two-page outline. Those outlines are handed over to one of four storyboard teams who have two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-41Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}