Animation Guild

Summer 2019

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DOS & DON'TS OF NOTES You've submitted your draft and you're feeling good. Then come the notes. Lots and lots of notes, some lengthy, some absurdly brief…and the bubble bursts. opposite, clockwise from top left: Raj Brueggemann; G. Melissa Graziano-Humphrey; Ashley Long; and Lauren Andrews. photography by Tim Sullens. FRANCISCO PAREDES, A WRITER ON DISNEY'S MUPPET BABIES RECALLS GETTING BACK A SCRIPT HE HAD SUBMITTED. THE EVALUATOR INCLUDED A SINGLE MARK AND, NO, UNFORTUNATELY IT WASN'T "LOVE IT. DON'T CHANGE A THING." "THE PERSON READING MY SCRIPT HAD WRITTEN ON THE SIDE OF IT 'WTF—AS IN WHAT THE (EXPLETIVE) —' AND GAVE NO OTHER CONTEXT," SAYS PAREDES. "ON ANOTHER SCRIPT, LATER ON, IT CAME BACK WITH A DASH AND A LINE THAT SAID, 'I LITERALLY DON'T GIVE A (EXPLETIVE) ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW.' THAT WAS ALL THE NOTE WAS, NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE ABOUT IT. WE ALL HAD A REALLY GOOD LAUGH ABOUT IT IN THE WRITING ROOM." By Evan Henerson F E AT U R E 26 KEYFRAME

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