If the Show was Animated Entirely in North America....

[Popeyes Haunted Barnacles]

Like shows like Star vs the Forces of Evil or Wander Over Yonder, how would you feel about it? Currently the show outsources its animation to Korea. Do you think the show could be more experimental with the animation if they got a studio like Mercury Filmworks to do the animation. Maybe it might even be more cost effective with how they use Toon Boom to animate.

 

[BeanoSponge]

I would like ToonBoom to do an episode, I like their style.

 

[imrustyokay]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh no.

 

[SpongeOddFan]

i don't know about animated series being animated in North America.

 

[BrickSponge2015]

I would like ToonBoom to do an episode, I like their style.

Didn't SOOW have some ToonBoom animation?

 

[tbh]

I would like ToonBoom to do an episode, I like their style.

Toon Boom is a program.

 

[WhoWantsStancakes]

They actually WOY and Star in Canada, as far as I know. But anyways, the animation would probably be of higher quality and would have less animation errors. For example, certain sequences in Gravity Falls are animated in the US, and they're a bit more fluid than normal animation in the show.

Didn't SOOW have some ToonBoom animation?

It's traditionally animated, and they scan in the animation and color/composite it in Toon Boom. They might do certain effects in Toon Boom that might be costly or too time consuming in traditional animation.

 

[Supmandude]

They wouldn't be able to meet the deadlines if they did it in-house. I think the only way they could do it in a timely manner would be if they gave it a Flash-y look and I wouldn't want that.

 

[Cha]

No, I love the classic cartoon look to the series. Flash is rarely, if never done right.

 

[Supmandude]

No, I love the classic cartoon look to the series. Flash is rarely, if never done right.

On a technical aspect, they'd probably use Toon Boom, not Flash, but they'd probably have to rely on using symbols instead of real hand drawn animation to get it done in time. That'd give it a Flash-y look that I wouldn't want.

 

[DigitalDeathstraction]

No, I love the classic cartoon look to the series. Flash is rarely, if never done right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7ou27JwxM
A whole episode of Rick and Morty is done on a 80,000 budget with Flash. Hand Drawn Flash. By Americans in/near Georgia and it has some of the best animation ever, not counting Superjail!

 

[Supmandude]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7ou27JwxM
A whole episode of Rick and Morty is done on a 80,000 budget with Flash. Hand Drawn Flash. By Americans in/near Georgia and it has some of the best animation ever, not counting Superjail!

That's not Flash, it's ToonBoom. I saw a picture of an animation project on the creators' Twitter. But yes, it is hand drawn, not sure if the SpongeBob people would be given the same schedule as Rick and Morty. Nick probably wants a lot per year so, I think that's what would make it harder for SpongeBob to be able to do.

 

[The Real Nostalgia Critic]

"maybe they should just have 8-bit flash animation just like breadwinners" - Puffy Fluffy

 

[DigitalDeathstraction]

That's not Flash, it's ToonBoom. I saw a picture of an animation project on the creators' Twitter.

Well The /R/RickandMorty board user who said that it was animated in flash also was banned for spamming gore pics so it doesn't suprise me that he was lying.

 

[WhoWantsStancakes]

They probably won't use Flash because Flash has a really confusing layout and it crashes constantly. Also, Toon Boom is a bit cheaper than Flash now with it being $15 a month for a subscription package. They'd either rely on puppets (which wouldn't be a bad thing, but it wouldn't look as good as frame by frame animation), or do it somewhat traditionally by frame-by-framing it (which would be basically the same as traditional animation, as well as cheaper to make). Due to time constraints, probably the former.

 

[Kaiju]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_7ou27JwxM
A whole episode of Rick and Morty is done on a 80,000 budget with Flash. Hand Drawn Flash. By Americans in/near Georgia and it has some of the best animation ever, not counting Superjail!

That animation looks exactly the same as every other adult animated series.

 

[DigitalDeathstraction]

That animation looks exactly the same as every other adult animated series.

But if you look a bit closer you can see that FAMILY GUY HAS BAD ANIMATION.

 

[BabySmitty]

I think it would be a lot better, actually.

Wander and Star both have really fluid animation. Spongebob does not. It's flat. If the budget went into adding more keyframes and movement rather than outsourcing it to a hand-drawn company, it would really look fantastic.

 

[youraccent]

SpongeBob uses no software inbetweening (aside from a few VFX), unlike most Flash and Toon Boom shows. (aside from Rick & Morty) So I don't think they would do it in America because the cost to pay American animators to do all the inbetweening by hand is too high. Or something like that.

 

[spacepirate]

it has some of the best animation ever

What, no it doesn't.