Animation Guild

36 KEYFRAME F E AT U R E Samurai Jack (2001-2004; 2017) Emmys Cred: 2 nominations and 1 win (2004) for Outstanding Animated Program; 6 more wins for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation The titular character of this series was a samurai who travels back in time to defeat a shape-shifting demon and prevent a dystopian future. "Artistically, if you look at the show now, it's pretty hard to compare anything else to it," says Alvarez, who also worked on Samurai Jack. "I think it might have even set a path or opened the door for a lot of other shows, action-adventure type shows." When the series was revived in 2017 for one last season, Alvarez says creator Genndy Tartakovsky maintained the same processes as he used in the early '00s. "He didn't do animatics. He slugged the boards just the way we used to slug the boards when we were directing them on the original series…everything was done on the storyboard," he says. "For sound, we'd do the track on audio cassette. So it was just like doing the original show." Family Guy (1999-present) Emmys Cred: 4 nominations for Outstanding Animated Program; 1 nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series (the first since The Flintstones); and an additional 12 nominations and 7 wins in other categories Much like The Simpsons, Family Guy is about a middle-class American family. But the Griffins of Quahog, Rhode Island were a far cruder bunch, and the show was geared toward an older audience from the start. Like Beavis and Butt-Head, South Park, and other post-Simpsons shows, Family Guy gave (and continues to give) the Fox Standards and Practices department a workout. Says Thompson: "Family Guy was much more outrageous than what The Simpsons had done. When The Simpsons came out, people thought it was going to be the end of civilization as we knew it.The Simpsons looks like a Sunday school lesson compared to what Family Guy would do." But that's what Deborah Winslow, longtime Family Guy retakes director and current promotions director, loves most about the place where she's worked for 14 years. "Nobody's sacred. Nothing is safe. Equal opportunity: We'll pick on everybody," she says. "A lot of times people might take one thing and go, 'Hey, this was mean to that group of people!' Relax. We'll get to everybody. It's never anything personal. It's good to laugh at yourself."

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• PRESIDENT'S LETTER
• EDITOR'S NOTE
• ART & CRAFTAko Castuera's dynamic ceramics
• AFTER HOURS DWA's Abarcaon the sweet sideof animation
• IN PRODUCTION How Paradise, P.D.runs its show
• ON THE JOB Character Designers at different studios
• SPACE INVADERS Get lost in Ben Balistreri's home studio
• PERSPECTIVE Surviving pixel vision
• DIALOGUE Artists onthe show that inspired them
• THE LOCAL Color Stylists ask for your support, our convention delegates
• SOCIAL HOURT oasting our members around town
• MUSIC IN MOTION For Cosmo Segurson, his Nickelodeon short, The Prince and Mr. Whiskers, brings together influences from hispast. Inspired by hot jazz, 1930'scartoons and his father, he creates amusical battle in a stop-motion world.
• AND THE WINNER IS…We look back at eight Primetime Emmy winners over the last five decades, highlighting shows that impacted the industry. From The Flintstones to SpongeBob SquarePants, these unforgettable characters continue to live on.
• INTO THE NIGHT How do you design a summer vacation film without sunlight? That was one big challenge for the production of Hotel Transylvania 3.Learn how the artists behind the filmcreated a bright destination for Dracand his family.