She died 3 months ago. Do they record the voices earlier than that? Or was that a different actress?
I don’t know which episode you are talking about, but yeah, 3 months is actually kinda short for a lead time.
yeah, AFAIK Family Guy has like a 2-3 month lead time on episodes. South Park is the real anomaly in their ability to turn a new episode the week before airing.
Yeah I’d say closer to 6+ months for lead time.
I have no immediate cite for this, but I thought they actually recorded over a year in advance. I thought Wil Wheaton or another Star Trek cast member mentioned recording dialogue and their episode did not air for a really long time after.
I heard there were 2 episodes that featured her posthumously, I know I saw one of them but she didn’t really say anything funny, just set up a joke for Peter. It’s crazy how those years of smoking changed her voice so much.
According to Wikipedia, an episode takes ten months to produce.
Traditional animation like Family Guy or The Simpsons has a very long lead time, sometimes as much as a year.
South Park specifically has their process set up to churn out episodes very quickly. Of course, they don’t look nearly as pretty.
Isn’t the Simpsons computer drawn at this point?
Very few cartoons go to air live. It’s a tremendous strain on the animator’s wrist.
Nonsense.
I make live t.v. every day.
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It’s computer coloured and composited, but I think the characters are still drawn frame by frame by hand. It may not be on paper anymore (though it might be), but it doesn’t save that much time if not.
Pretty much all animation is at least colored by computer now. But the individual frames are still drawn one by one. Whether that’s done by hand or on computer I don’t know, but it’s a lot of work.
Futurama used to do a lot of 3D animated sequences which were specially rendered to make them look like traditional 2D animation. (With solid colors and outlines.) But those were special sequences and most of the show was still hand drawn.