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By: RumorsDaily » Writing for Dreamworks

RumorsDaily » Writing for Dreamworks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:35:45 +0000

[...] for Dreamworks sounds difficult and frustrating. Via Metroblogging. Tags: Asides, Dreamworks, Entertainment, Kung Fu Panda, Metroblogging, Movies [...]

By: slackmistress

slackmistress — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:11:48 +0000

I have never worked for Dreamworks Animation, but I have worked for other cmpanies and projects where the writing seems to be secondary. It depends wholeheartedly on the role of the Storyboard Artists. Some shows have Storyboard Artists work straight from scripts where they don’t have much creative leeway, they just draw what they’re given.

However, there are other shows where the Storyboard Artist has just as much, if not more, creative input than the writer. Of course, in the wrong hands, this is a complete and total disaster. In the right hands with a truly gifted Storyboard Artist it makes the process truly sublime, and they deserve credit as such.

Again, I have not worked for Dreamworks Animation, although I’ve had plenty of similar nightmare scenarios in my writing career.

By: pcloadletter

pcloadletter — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:30:09 +0000

You don’t have to be “artists first” to realize that Dreamworks Animation’s process is fucking retarded, even from a bottom-line business standpoint.

By: The 8 Track Kid

The 8 Track Kid — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:34:51 +0000

Not to be knock Dan Harmon, who is a great writer, but what is the point of him telling us this? Does he expect anyone to be shocked, or even remotely surprised by the fact that Dreamworks isn’t an artists first, altruistic organization?

I suppose it might make Mr. Harmon feel better to vent and I wouldn’t deny him that right but as Hyman Roth said to Michael Corleone in The Godfather II: “This is the business we’ve chosen”.