12/ 5 - A Flight To Remember (1ACV10)
What's worse than taking a vacation aboard the maiden voyage of
the spaceship "Titanic"? Taking a vacation aboard the maiden
voyage of the spaceship "Titanic" captained by Zapp Brannigan12/12 - A Head in the Polls (2ACV03)
Richard Nixon's head combines with Bender's body to run for
President of EarthI assume Xmas Story (2ACV04) will be shown 12/19, but this hasn't been confirmed yet.
Yes, it's will, since this week's TV Guide (With Rosie O'Donnell on the cover) confirmed it!
12/12 - A Head in the Polls (2ACV03)
When Bender pawns his body, it gets a new owner...Richard Nixon's
head, who wants it for his attempt to be elected President of
Earth12/19 - Xmas Story (2ACV04)
(You know, I'm not so sure exactly what this one is about, other
than it's a Christmas episode, although I've heard it has
something to do with (a) how Christmas has changed in 1000 years
and (b) Fry feeling sorry for Leela, who's all alone for the
holiday)*** IMPORTANT NOTE *** Because of a problem with the overseas animation, there won't be any more new episodes available before February. Rather than show six weeks of reruns from its limited number of existing episodes, Fox decided to use the "between The Simpsons and The X-Files" time slot to premiere its new series, "Malcom in the Middle". Unfortunately, for some strange reason, Fox also announced that this would be the show's "regular" time slot, and Futurama would be on at 7:00 when it returns in February. (I doubt that it will be in this slot when football begins again next September, as the 7:00 show is pre-empted every other week, but somebody might be thinking "if it does well in this slot, it will do well anywhere". Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if both "Futurama" and "The Simpsons" are moved next season.)
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Sorry for the harsh language...but....Where the hell did you hear that there was an "overseas animation" problem!!! To the best of my knowledge and sources, the overseas animation company (Rough Draft Korea) is right on schedule and even makes up time that is lost in the scedule due to any delays in the pre-production area. Not one show has ever been delayed due to the overseas studio and future shows are being produced as per schedule... no delays...no problems. ( I personally think that they are doing an excellent job... too bad that there is no mention about the quality of the visuals in the show... I'm sure that the people involved in doing the animation /direction would love to hear peoples thoughts on that...( afterall there are over 500 people that are involved in the production of these shows after the writing is done....))
The on air scheduling delays are all due to executive decisions @Fox.
( I am curious where you recieved this information.....)
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I think the animation quality is excellent. Far surpasses the Simpsons in complexity and color choices.
The only minor gripe I have with it, but it's hard to justify this complaint, is the noticeable difference in frame-rate between the traditional animation and the computer animation. The traditional animation is very nice, but only when they show the computer animation do you realize that it could be smoother. It'd be cool if they could use 30 FPS for the traditional animation, but that would drastically increase production time I suppose. What is the frame-rate for regular animation? 24 FPS?
I'm really curious how they do the CG animation as well. They often do a very nice blend of both kinds of animations like when Bender hops aboard the Countess De La Roca when she realizes she's a Class 3 yacht.
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The 3-D is actually done @ 24 FPS inorder to match the frame rate of the 2-D animation... the difference is though that the 3-D is mostly done on "ones" ( that is one drawing for each frame) where as the 2-D is usually on "twos" (one drawing for every 2 frames).... but yes 30 FPS would be extremely cost prohibitive.
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Sometimes the characters are 3-D as well, as in the case above...
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Whoa whoa whoa. So the animation is done at 12 FPS?
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"Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'" -Homer Simpson
Yes, that's why it's easy to tell the difference between traditional and 3D-animation. If it's smoothly animated, chances are it's done on a computer.
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Fen Phen wrote in message news:82gous$7cq$[email]...
Animation has always been on "twos" ( yes I guess technically that translates to 12 FPS). Although Feature animation at times is on ones (24FPS)...almost all TV animation is done on twos ( except during pans/trucks and fast movements i.e. running, etc..... these are done on "ones" ). With out getting too technical... that's the brief explanation. Alot of "anime" ( Japanese style animation ) is actually done on "threes" and or "sixes" ( 8 to 4 FPS ))
For your information "Futurama" has probably the highest drawing count of any prime-time series ever... imagine having to draw over 25,000 drawings per episode.... and that's just counting the final drawings that you see on TV.
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The level of detail in each episode impresses me all the time.
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What impresses me the most is there is a minimal amount of silly humor (stuff thrown in just to try and be funny but its just far out there). The styles of humor that Futurama uses is many, and mostly you get the feel of the humor you'd get while hanging out with friends talking about hypocracy of the world.
They do seem to use a lot of animation shortcuts, however, like digitally shrinking an object as it fades into the distance instead of redrawing it as it gets smaller. You'll notice that in the scene in 1ACV09 where Bender flies upward towards the hole in Robot Hell's ceiling, for one.
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I think it's better that way. Sometimes when you shrink an object traditionally, you lose detail cause you can only draw so small and then paint it in. *shrug*
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I've seen plenty of people commend the spiffy animation (I'm among them). As for the animation difficulty news, The Futurama Chronicles is the source/one to blame:
http://futurama.simplenet.com/magazine/frcr002.html#2
(I'd be interested to know where JE got his info, and where you did.)
Why the pre-emption? 12.02.99 by Jordan Eisenberg Here's the story: Fox is not unhappy with Matt Groening or with Futurama. The move has nothing to do with sweeps month or with spite.
In late October, the producers of Futurama informed their higher-ups that due to unforseen delays in production, they would not be able to produce any new episodes in time for the month of January. Not wanting to confuse the viewers and engulf them in repeats, Fox's programming heads called the situation for what it was -- a temporary hiatus -- and took the oppurtunity to place the new show Malcom in the Middle in the timeslot instead.
When Futurama returns in February, in order to incur the least amount of time-slot shuffling, it will take the place of The World's Funniest (now officially cancelled) at the front of the Sunday lineup. It may take some getting used to, but the new lineup is not horrible. Football will not be a problem after the Super Bowl ends next month, and taping Futurama alongside The Simpsons at 8:00 will be simpler.
In my opinion, this is a circumstantial problem and not an indication of Futurama's future. With The X-Files and The Simpsons on the way out, many are looking at our show as the next Sunday-night anchor. Things should get much smoother as time goes on.
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The news of an overseas problem came straight from Fox, or one of its correspondence personell at <ww.fox.com>. Everyone who asked about the fate of Futurama's new time slot from their "AskFox" e-mail address got a form-answer declaring the problem -- and you might still be able to: . (Please let me know if you get something different!)
I love the animation... Seeing the darker, shadowyer, more realistic palette on Futurama has made me get sick of the bright colors on The Simpsons all of a sudden. The Simpsons from scripts to animation seems so much more artificial than Futurama now. The variety of interesting shots, and the competence with which Futurama executes its sight gags also reminds me of The Simpsons' glory days. I loved the perspective shot on the recent ep where the Prof is hammering the empathy chip into Bender. The Titanic ep is just a visual classic...from the jump cut gag at the beginning to the wide shots of the ship's evacuation and all of the beautifully detailed interiors...everything almost as complex as the work done on the movie itself. The computer segments are more well-integrated than I've seen on TV animation before, but still not a perfect match. I like to see them enhance the space scenes and battles, but the shot of Bender riding his yacht-bot seems a little more smooth than necessary.