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WINTER 2019 25 anywhere. The series deals with contemporary concerns, but, he says, "in many ways they are the same concerns Dr. Seuss had when he was writing his books." In that respect there wasn't much they needed to do to make it fresh because they were dealing with issues, such as prejudice, that are still relevant today. Stern had worked on animated features and found the iterative nature of filmmaking to be incredibly valuable. He tried to bring some of that into their process and believes what they ended up with was a hybrid between feature and TV in both the quality of the animation and the style of the storytelling. While four years sounds like a long time for an animated TV show, he points out that for a feature that would be normal. The storytelling took time because they used the feature animation model, going from script to storyboard artists, encouraging them to contribute new ideas. "So it's like a second writer's room except they can draw better than us and they're amazing visual storytellers," he adds. They would go into editorial from there and do scratch voices to see what was working. After getting notes, it was back to rewriting and more storyboards and only after that would they record the actors. This process was repeated twice for each episode. Another way Stern wanted to pay homage to Dr. Seuss was by using rhyme. "I'm a big hip hop fan—I don't know if that's why it was something that came naturally to me—or maybe because I read so much Dr. Seuss," © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The GREEN EGGS AND HAM series and all related characters and elements are ™ and © WBEI. © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The GREEN EGGS AND HAM series and all related characters and elements are ™ and © WBEI. © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The GREEN EGGS AND HAM series and all related characters and elements are ™ and © WBEI. opposite: The iconic character, Sam I Am. below: A scene storyboarded by John Anderson. © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. The GREEN EGGS AND HAM series and all related characters and elements are™ and ©WBEI. I N P R O D U C T I O N