When “Tooning Out the News” was prepping to make its originally scheduled March 16 debut on CBS All Access, the creative team was already striving to make a show that was nearly impossible. But the…
” was prepping to make its originally scheduled March 16 debut on CBS All Access, the creative team was already striving to make a show that was nearly impossible. But then coronavirus hit, pushing pause on production and shifting post processes into artisans’ homes, and things got even more complicated.
“Just the act of doing animation on a daily basis is one of the oldest and hardest challenges in the animator’s playbook,” says executive producer, who heads up the animation team. “So even in-studio is a struggle. When we got the news on the Friday before we were set to premiere that we had to all stay at home for at least two weeks, that became the final obstacle in an already crazy obstacle course that we had run.
“We’ve had to find a way to break up that edit and, basically, throw as many animators as we can on it at once,” Luecke says. “Animation is traditionally a very linear process where there are specific handoffs that have to take place; we’re now faced with the challenge of doing everything as simultaneously as possible. So we basically take the edit that comes out of Zoom, and we split it up.
“I cannot tell you how many schedules we’ve been through trying to figure this out in the past month. And the team has just been incredibly patient and adaptable so that we could figure out the best way to make sure that we had as many hands as possible at every moment of the day,” Luecke says, noting there’s no technology that would allow simultaneous animation.
For now, the result is a “broadcast” that rivals the look of any of the at-home newscasts happening across the country — in many cases the sleek animation looks even better than some home offices. Leucke muses that guest availability is probably a bit easier at the moment because everyone’s at home, and having people Zoom into real cable news shows has allowed them to slide into that ecosystem quite quickly.
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