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A Smiling Friends director/board artist reveals the real reason animation is so expensive, and kids accuse him of not having class solidarity or something. https://t.co/2Z9dioknsG
— Michael Falk (@farmerlychucks) August 18, 2024
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I wonder where the money went
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Gotta have the office nespresso machine! And the fusbal tables!
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You make jokes but a mid-range professional coffee machine can easily cost $15k
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I know it can, and that's why we only got one once the business was well in the black.
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Coffee machines are operating expenses
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Each person needs their own Juicero because of COVID germs. Anything else is genocide!
trans lives matter
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Replace them with AI.
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Celebrity guest voices honestly do not cost much. They show up to an hour long recording session, do their lines and leave never to return. They make about $1000 SAG scale. They'll get more in residuals later. There's zero commitment on their part, and it's quick easy and fun to be a cartoon. They can even do it from home if they want these days.
The real wasted money goes to the writers. A entry level writer will make $4000 a week + a script fee + residuals. If you've been on staff for more than a season you get promoted to story editor which pays $8000/week. Every writer gets promoted cause the ((show runners)) are also writers and always look out for their own. If you're on for more than two seasons as a writer you'll become a co producer and make $12000 a week (plus script fee and residuals). Then supervising producer etc etc until you're an executive producer.
This model works for like, the Simpsons or family guy. But if you're not a smash hit the writers room bloat eventually sinks the budget of every one of these adult animated comedies.
The animators, directors, board artists, background designers etc make a fraction of what the writers make. A writers room of 8 writers will cost more than a 100 person animation staff.
Source: I work in animation and have been through the budget process on multiple shows and have seen the budgets.
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Does anyone actually want celebrity voice actors or is this some kind of embezzlement scheme?
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It's a scheme to get celebrities to talk to them
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It's a marketing scheme normally
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I think I'm in a minority but I basically just hate all celebrities in the sense that I never want to recognize the person acting or voice acting. It's always immersion breaking to be interrupted by the thought "Man, I know this voice from somewhere. Who is this? Oh, that's Keanu Reeves. Why the frick is he in this?" But other people apparently have the thought "OMFG holy craperino that's le heckin wholesome Keanu!!!! Instant 10/10!"
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