Michael Jackson Baby dangling incident reference in #300?

One poster in his review refered to Homer's incriminating photos being a reference to the Michael Jackson baby dangling incident, which may be a bit tough, considering how recently the event occured. However, being that the episode originally had Homer naming a star after the family (which went supernova), there is the possibility that the gag is a direct reference.

Given the fact that they only had to re-animate one shorter scene, how long would this have taken to re-integrate? Understandably, animation costs a pretty penny to produce and can only be produced within a certain time frame. Hence, there has been much discussion as to whether or not certain gags are re-written to accomodate current world events (ie: Michael Jackson baby dangling incident).

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"Hiro Protagonist" wrote in message news:KQk4a.82992$[email]...

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Beginning with this season, they've been doing all the coloring digitally, so I'd imagine it would be a lot easier to stick topical jokes in since the whole process takes less time.

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I thought somthing was different about the colours... can't say I think it's an improvement, but oh well.

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You can tell?? I knew they made the change, and I was trying to see the difference, but I can't see any difference at all.

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According to my the optrician, I have very sensitive eyes (For picking out detail that is). I blame it on doing a lot of work in video and television.

What you'll notice is that the colours are more contrasting and vibrant, and that edges are better defined... that being said, I liked the old style better.

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Absolutely. I was able to pick out the difference instantly. My mother even commented on it. Much brighter colors and more defined edges.

Aren't the edges still done by hand? Or are they too also done by computer?

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." -George W. Bush

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Funny, I was just thinking about that, as I remember years ago that it took six months to produce a single episode.

If thats a correct figure, remember it's for the whole episode, twenty or so minutes long. How long was that bit? A minute? Let's say it's four minutes a month (24 divided by 6), so a minute would take a week to do. Scale depending on how long that bit took. Of course, that may not be a faire breakdown, because it may not translate so easily. Some things may take longer, and likely the intricacy of a segment determines how long it takes to finish.

And I have no idea if the six month per episode is a true estimate.

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On 18 Feb 2003 08:37:14 GMT, [email] (Michael Black) wrote:

I always thought that figure meant production time from writing, to voices and animation.

There are a few things that can be said for the Jackson sequence. It was probably animated state-side and it had a few things that made it a bit easier. If you remember, Homer did the same thing twice. So, that allowed them to double the time of the animation. They animated half and then reversed it so that Homer "saved" Bart.

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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:20:00 GMT, Joe Coughlin

good points - And I really don't believe the actual process of animation would be so time consuming. It's not as if they have to recreate the whole sistine chapel for each frame or anything.

I bet much of the time includes editting and reviewing it, and doing the audio mixing and shit. They probably drop some things and add others fairly routinely.

I don't really know shit about it though - just talking out of my ass as usual.

I do know however that it's been about 3 months since that happened - If they can't come up with a short scene like that in a month, they'd never be able to complete a whole episode in 6. And IIRC, the only extra audio was Homer's voice, so that shouldn't be a big problem.

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In a 22 minute episode, there are 39 600 individual frames, each of which have to be individually drawn and coloured (There's a little less then that actually, because the opening is mostly stock footage, and the credits can probably be computer generated).

The Animation is done digital, and my guess is it was put in last minute.