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Was waiting for this show to get its own thread... Hello, I am a person who worked on Rick and Morty, I can facilitate any questions you may have about the show. Also I will shamelessly cross post this from the adult swim mega thread as it seems to be better suited here. readingatwork posted:Oh, sweet! 2 I worked in Color Key, Which is essentially coloring the Line art that the Character designers and Prop designers give us. We give the Models of the fully colored Characters and Props to the animation company and their artists just drop in our colors. Its animated in Toon Boom so the program does a pretty good job at moving around colors as you animate. Since The pilot has already aired. its okay for me to show you these. but don't post them anywhere. The Production company (Star Burns Industries) probably doesn't want too much production art out there. I Colored things like this, which you can see in the Thanksgiving Promo. I also got to draw the turkey from several different angles  You would have to color 15-20 things a Day, I got pretty fast at it. I cant Share anything else that I colored because the stuff I did isn't until episode 6. But I can show you some cool Color Keys from the pilot. Here is Ricks Shuttlecraft,  I've seen a lot of iterations of color on this before. and none of them quite as good as the actual colors that were used in the episode. Ricks Science stuff has a set of color rules. Every thing he makes has to be made out of junk. so its all very grey ish and Brown. Its actually very hard to color. There are only small pieces of glowing "sci fi" ish looking parts of anything Rick works on. Once the Prop is Colored, they place it onto the background to see if it matches up okay, And from there the art director changes the colors as needed to make sure everything looks nice together. Some of the more impressive creatures get thought about a lot. And 3 or 4 people make adjustments to the final color and design before its approved. This is C'thulu from the opening credits.  (I inked this but it ended up not being used)  The lead Colorist from the Show worked on Fish Hooks. He is pretty incredible when it comes to Concept ish looking paintings. and He was able to bring alot to a show that was essentially in the genre of "Prime Time" Animation. The pilot was made over a year ago by a different set of people, So the art will change a bit. I would say for the most part that the colors improve. And there are a lot more interesting back ground characters introduced. Some of the backgrounds and space ships for the next few espisodes are really impressive. I hope you all stick around to watch. 3. I think from start to finish an episode takes a bout 6-8 months. but several are being worked on at once. For rick and morty. The writing for episode 1 started in December of 2012. And people began story boarding and doing design work in February. Color people didn't even come in until April I think. And we started getting animation back from the first episode in Late September. Its hard to say really, how long it takes 1 single episode. but for for a whole season It takes a bout a year. There will be 10 more episodes of rick any morty. In my job specifically I had about 2 weeks to color all the props, characters, vehicles. spaceships. forks, knives, tires, bracelets, costumes and etc, in 2 weeks for each episode. I finished early So i got to assist in Coloring for the Backgrounds which take a Really long time. I think one artist spends a day or a day and a half on each Background. 
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Dont Miss Tonights Episode, Lawnmower Dog. Those without cable can watch it online here http://video.adultswim.com/rick-and-morty/lawnmower-dog.html  And the Reviews are pouring in from all over  Her Brother sounds cool.
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PicklePants posted:I really enjoy the show. It's just so wonderfully demented with how Rick views the world. The creature designs for the next episode are pretty amazing. lots of monsters and stuff. And yeah I took a test Steven, But there really wasn't any jobs open for that. Also SU is a really hard show to get on to. My friend who did color with me on Rick and Morty (hes fantastic, worked on BG's for the clone wars) couldn't get hired there even though his test was amazing.
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Alan Smithee posted:Yeah with all the reference humor it could easily become lazy like Family guy but they really do a better job of weaving it into the actual plot instead of just dropping here and there There will be a lot of reference humor, But it depends on the episode. not all episodes are theme based. A lot of the times its just weird Justin humor, which doesn't always makes sense, or it might seem like its referencing something, but then just be nothing in particular. Also the show is sometimes a vehicle for Justins ideas that were never realized. Like the 11 minute board driven dog universe. I think that was some sort of failed Justin pitch. Edit, Yes, I found some info on that quote:Ryan Ridley Typical fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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ultramiraculous posted:Pretty clearly amoral. He knows what he's doing and doesn't care. I mean he's willfully keeping his grandson out of school when Morty clearly needs to be there. Any "craziness" is just that he's kinda a single-minded sociopath who doesn't really care about what's best for anyone else as long as he gets to achieve whatever his goals are. Rick is really smart and regular family earthly stuff to him is so trivial and vanilla. I mean, that guy can go anywhere instantly to any dimension. He doesn't care about family values. But he does NEED Morty, Morty is his little helper... SymfonyMan posted:HOW TYPICAL! I know, that's going to get old (years from now). Keep up the great work over there. This should be a great show. Both episodes and the online adventure game have some really clever writing. Just stopping in and saying this show is great. The fact that they go throughout space and not just time makes out like a strange Doctor Who meets Back to the Future and I'm digging everything about it except the belching which seems like it was toned down for episode 2. Thanks, I'm not working their right now actually though. We are all waiting for the green light on to season 2, and then artists can be employed again! Also Rick and Morty is done in Harmony/Toonboom and a lot of it is animated in the Philippines!  although some revisions are done in house at the Burbank studio.
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WickedHate posted:The way you phrase that is half way between cute and creepy. I think it will all be cleared up by Episode 5 or something.
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Tonight, Anotomy Park! http://video.adultswim.com/rick-and-morty/sneak-speak-anatomy-park.html  Merry Christmas goons
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muscles like this? posted:Eh, in the first episode Morty talks Rick down from blowing up the world by being assertive. The world wouldn't have blown up. It was a neutrino bomb, and neutrinos are harmless. and you are being bombarded by them right now...
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The network cares and does censor things. They usually send us back notes on some of the production art if they wanted it to be changed. For instance. they didn't want too too much gore, I had to re-color an alien intestine pink because they didn't want it to look too real. Edited For reasons.... Typical fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Jan 27, 2014 |
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WickedHate posted:An alien intestine has to be pink, but the ending of Anatomy Park was allowed? Yeah, I have no Idea. It just is okay for some reason.
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The design for the c'thulu mouth is supposed to be pretty horrific and vaginal. It was drawn by James Mcdermott. I remember him showing me the sketches on his computer while we had a dry humor conversation about how attractive it looked. James said that although he found the drawing appealing sexually, it wasn't as enticing as his wife's who just had a baby.
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I'm Sure you can all wait 20 more hours. Can't show you this till it airs  Soon
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Official Youtube video is up now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUJf3ZrUccE
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Hazo posted:Did you guys air out of order or was your pilot just #100? Pilot is #100 Lawnmower dog is #101 Anatomy park is #105 Scammer Aliens/Mnight Shyam Aliens is #103 They pushed production of anatomy park faster because it was Christmas themed. I think they might continue to air them slightly out of order. but don't quote me on that.
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PostNouveau posted:Hey, dude that works on this show, are all the scenes from the opening credits pulled from episodes that we haven't seen yet? Like robot Morty and pregnant Jerry? Justin Roiland doesn't want you to know the answer to that.
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Yeah holy crap that guy is good. And he can compose for anything.
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Alan Smithee posted:How are the ratings? I stopped subbing cable so I just watch from Youtube since that's the most direct way I can support it. Suprised AS is doing it though I imagine they don't do it for every show The ratings are good, like 1.5 million viewers usually. plus online viewership wich is good. they really need people to watch online / buy the youtube/itunes episodes Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there a new ep tonight? Yes there will be. I forgot to post about it.
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Wuhao posted:
I'm here but I'm choosing not to participate because I have poor writing/persuasive skills and cannot express my opinion about anything serious without sounding stupid. I may or may not agree with some people in the thread about some scenes.   OH also I am currently back at work at the Rick and Morty Studio doing some color work on an unrelated new pilot. it's by a lot of the same people I'll share it with you when it gets released. AND NEW EPISODE on Monday.
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My woSymfonyMan posted:Yeah, it's nice that the giant world they visited also had a giant Abraham Lincoln. I do my design work in photoshop. and then they assemble every thing in the character builds over seas. but there are Toon boom/ Harmony people at the office. I will ask them today.
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PostNouveau posted:Does it involve several clones of a certain aging former stand-up comic/sitcom star? I have clearly stepped over my privileges as an employee, and Now I need to retract my statement of their being a season 2. Nothing is confirmed and please don't listen to me. Typical fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Jan 27, 2014 |
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Everything is okay, I just really need to cut down on stuff that is hearsay and conversations that are only supposed to be at the office. And I really should't be talking on anyone's behalf. But yeah. Thread will go on. and everything will be A Okay.
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If your sounds all messed up I feel for you. But here's the Adult swim YouTube with a nice 1080p version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SutlAKqlmNo
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I think its because high concept comes off as sounding conceptual cool sci-fi oriented. It might not be the high concept in the academic film sense. Most people don't know what "high concept" really means.
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its official now Sperg-Lords! Rejoice! More animated Rick adventures to satisfy your eyeball cravings, SEASON 2!!!!
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zoux posted:Atone for your egregious non thread reading by answering my episode order question. I have no idea how many there will be, also I probably couldn't say even if i did know.
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socialsecurity posted:I'd be curious to see how much something like Archer costs to make vs something more traditional like American Dad. I remember the Venture Bros pilot looking like it was made in flash but I'm certain they moved on from that to some sort of sweatshop labor. Archer is surprisingly expensive. And American Dad, Venture Brothers, along with Family guy, China Il., Axe Cop, and many other shows are done in flash.
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I wanted to show you the office, but its dark in there. the lights are off so the artists can see the cintiq's screen better.
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Planet Piss posted:The most beautiful part of the Meeseeks storyline is that Summer and Morty's mom ask for these nebulous, vague ideas, which end up being simple for the Meeseeks. Morty's dad asks for something relatively simple and almost gets people killed for it. Everything I've thought would be cliche in this show has been turned on its head and I love it! you should tweet that to justin or the facebook page and they might feature it. Chairman Mao posted:I absolutely love the idea that the people making this show live and work in perpetual darkness, their offices lit only by the bleak glow of their wacom tablets. Most studios are pretty much this. but its a happy and relaxing atmosphere.
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New episode Next week, Also Here are some cool color design sketches made by James Mcdermott, who is the Art director for Rick and Morty.       quote:James Writes
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lovely Wizard posted:New preview, preview itself starts at 45 seconds. That guy was Jason Boesch, my supervisor, He's the lead color designer. His job was basically to paint the really complex stuff that needed really specific and cool colors, and then match all the other colors that were coming in from the other artists to match the look and feel. He is pretty amazing. Also I painted that pawn shop planet thing at 46 seconds.
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Been waiting almost a year for this, Thats me, the 3rd Color Key artist
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Gumby posted:Did anybody else notice the version of Game of Thrones where Tyrion is normal-size, everyone else is a dwarf, and they all still hate him? I loved this gag, I was really excited when they gave me that shot to color.
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Barry Convex posted:So many great moments. Nice, I colored both of these.
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I can share some of this stuff with you now that this episode is out. Here are two vehicles i worked on from episode 8, I only did the coloring. I believe they were originally drawn by our super amazing prop designer Eunji Lee Roess! The final colors in the episode are not exactly the ones I have here, they would have been tweaked and corrected by our amazing color lead Jason Boesche   here are some background I worked on for episode 108! We were running late on some stuff so I got to help out with these backgrounds for the Rixty Minutes episode. the bottom two are from the two brothers sequence, I was a color artists, So i only did the coloring for these. I had some help from our amazing color, who took the time to show me exactly what the art direction was. He really helped show me how the lighting would work for the explosion sequence, which came out really nice!   
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I hope you guys are ready for season 2, Its gearing up soon, And this year I will be returning as a  Prop Designer A Prop for you non production people is a object that a character interacts with, So all the spaceships, spoons, gadgets, vehicles you see in season 2 will be draw by me! hopefully. Unless the art director wants to do it himself. Oh also you better watch Community this Thursday, for the GI JOE episode. Me and my Goon girlfriend animated and designed on it. we also lost a lot of sleep over it. But I wont go into that.
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