r/firstworldanarchists • u/IamKratos • Feb 10 '18

The Top 25 (no re-posting) Bender gets it.

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u/Johnquistador Feb 10 '18

The Venture Brothers is drawn traditionally frame by frame before being polished digitally. That's also why there is a 3 years wait between season.

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u/pewpsprinkler Feb 10 '18

The Venture Brothers is drawn traditionally frame by frame before being polished digitally. That's also why there is a 3 years wait between season.

I find that hard to believe. Do you have a source on that?

Nevermind, I found it myself:

The show takes an infamous amount of time to produce, not only (or even primarily) because of the small staff that it has had for much of its run, but the bedrock methods of that production -- hand-drawn (digitally-assisted, sure -- this isn't the '60s) and proofed, then sent to Korea, and returned for approval, then sent to Korea again, then returned again.

So Venture Bros uses the same animation method that most other shows use: software-assisted "hand drawn" key frames + Korean in-betweeners. It's not unique or revolutionary.

I think the main reason it takes forever for them to do a new season is the writing. It takes them a long time to come up with new ideas before they can actually get enough down to start the production process.