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The Simpsons The Movie?
rosewood writes "Everyone loves the Simpsons so why not a Simpsons movie? I know I'm not the only one that would look forward for it. " I'm more than a little skeptical, but hell, South Park scaled pretty well to the big screen. Maybe if they could get some of the writers in from the earlier seasons (You listening Conan?) on board, they could do something awesome.
You know you're a geek when you refer to something going from TV to the big screen as "scaling".
That's priceless.
Referring to a woman who you knew years ago as a pigtailed little girl: Wow, she sure scaled well.
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Dan Castalaneta (sp) the voice of Homer Simpson stated on the Tom Lykis show (while in Aspen) that a feature film was unlikely during the time the show is in television.
Apparently the current yearly episode load (something like 22) is about the maximum the show can handle. Apparently it takes 7 months to write, draw, animate and then do the voices for an episode.
Lots of handy information here - it actually sounds pretty unlikely from what they have said over the years. Ford Prefect
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The guy would have to be bald. overweight, and rather thick... hmmmmm.....
William Shatner?
Doh!
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The reason South Park "scaled" so well is because the producers took a new attitude towards the movie. It wasn't just another episode of South Park: it was a sick, twisted extravaganza which actually spent 1/5 of its total production time in the Censors office, trying to get whittled down from an NC-17 rating.
But here are some reasons why I think the Simpson's can't manage a full-length movie:
I hate to be pessimistic, but I'd hate a bad Simpson's movie even more. I mean, 10 years... to end with a crappy film would be just plain shameful.
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If they make this movie with the writing staff they had this year it's going to suck big time. This season, the show has was lame and it's dedicated followers even dropped off. If they want to make a big splash and possible revive the series to its former glory they need to bring back the magic that Conan O'Brien, James L. Brooks, David Mirkin, and a bunch of the writers who left the show who left to work on Futurama last year. Futurama is funny this year and the Simsons just went to the dogs.
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Right now Simpsons are going to be on the big screen ala IMAX, but it won't be a full-length feature; the tree-house of horror halloween episode instead.
http://www.snpp.com/news.html#imax
If you're lazy:
Simpsons to the Big Screen By Jouni Paakkinen (jouni@snpp.com) - January 27, 2000
Several studios have teamed up with IMAX to bring famous animated charactes, including The Simpsons, to the company's giant screens in a compilation film called "Cyberworld." "Cyberworld", which is to be comprised of eight animated sequences, will ultimately include the computer-generated "Homer3" segment from "Treehouse of Horror VI," in which Homer is sucked into the third dimension. Also to be included are scenes from DreamWorks' "Antz," Sony's "Monkey Brain Sushi," and a new Pet Shop Boys video. Dharma & Greg's Jenna Elfman will provide the voice of Phig, cyber-hostess of the film, which takes place in a futuristic museum. "Cyberworld" will be released to IMAX theaters worldwide in October of 2000.
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One of the former writers from The Simpsons, Mike Reiss, recently came and spoke to our University. One of the questions asked of him was "What exactly does Matt Groenig do on the show?". His response was "if you want to know what Matt Groening did on The Simpsons, ask yourself what Walt Disney did on Toy Story."
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Someone else asked why a Simpsons Movie has not yet been created. His answer was simple: if a Simpsons movie WAS to be created, Matt Groenig would be the one to write, produce, and direct it.
And that's why there hasn't been a Simpsons movie yet.
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...they're going to need to introduce new material. While any diehard Simpsons fan will go to see the movie, it'll quickly lose interest unless they introduce a new character, or a major new thing to the show.
Another great way to follow through with the movie would be to incorporate the ending of the movie in with some of the television episodes about a month or a month and a half after the release of the movie. How do you all feel?
Anyone know if South Park incorporated the ending of their movie into some of their new episodes?
Dialog and the musical score are recorded. This process does not occur until later in the production of a movie, but for an animated movie, the dialog and music must first be recorded so that the artists can synchronize their drawings to it.
A layout artist works in conjunction with the director to determine what will be in each scene, how each character will look, and how the story can best be broken into scenes. Once this process is complete, the layout artists prepare drawings to guide the background artists and animators.
The background artists are responsible for drawing all of the backgrounds found in the animated movie. A background is considered anything in the scene except for the characters and anything else that those characters might interact with (for example, if a character picks up a book from a table, that book is not part of the background).
The animators are responsible for drawing each character's movements on seperate drawings. It takes 24 of these drawings to make one second of film. Usually, different animators are assigned to different characters. The animators work from a timing chart. The timing chart indicates the number of frames, or seperate pictures, needed for the particular character to express each word of previously recorded dialog. For example, the timing chart may show that the character has to say the word "hello" in 8 frames. The animators then make 8 seperate drawings in which the character's mouth moves to form the word "hello."
Because the animators are responsible for drawing up to a million different drawings, the idea of key-framing has been introduced. In the key-framing, the lead animator draws the character in its key-frame position. A key-frame position may occur two or three times every 24 frames (or one second). A key frame means that frame contains the essential action of the scene. A junior animator must then draw all of the drawings necessary in-between the key frames.
Once the animators have completed their drawings, another group of artists traces them onto sheets of transparent celluloid, called cels, with ink. These cels are then sent to the painting department. At the painting department, a painter paints the proper colors onto the reverse side of the cels.
The completed cels are then sorted into their proper sequence. The cels and backgrounds are sent to the camera department. At the camera department, the camera operator has an exposure sheet which tells him/her which cels belong with which backgrounds. The appropriate cels are properly layered over the appropriate backgrounds, as they are filmed one frame at a time.
The sound track is added to the film and the picture is ready for release.