Animation has so many steps and takes longer than live action to come to fruition, but you can’t really understand those processes until you’ve experienced them. Kieran Valla: One of the things that helped us the most was building an incredible team around us who had lots of experience working in the medium. In animation, you’re sort of doing post as you’re storyboarding. One thing that really excited us about working in animation is that with live action, once you shoot you do everything you can in post, but if you missed something while filming it’s gone. Also, working in a room with Harmon we learned to break stories. Darcy Fowler, Seth Kirschner, and Kieran VallaĬartoon Brew: Can you talk us through the group showrunning process? And, as this is the first time any of you have led an animated series, could you talk about the challenges you encountered?ĭarcy Fowler: We’ve been working together for a while on a bunch of different live-action pilots, so we have had lots of experience leading a production, and I think that experience helped a lot here. Cartoon Brew caught up with the show’s creative trio ahead of its FXX premiere to ask about the challenges of learning animation as creators from the live-action world, the graphic choices they made on the series, and how they managed to strike a balance between comedy, horror, and drama.

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