OUAN403 - Animation Skills - Identify: Pendleton Ward's "Adventure Time"

OUAN403 - Animation Skills:

Here's a beautiful animated series created by Pendleton Ward that goes by the name of Adventure Time! Starting out as a short for the well-known kids' channel Nicktoons, it soon became viral via the internet and very quickly gained a large audience thus allowing Cartoon Network to snatch it from the hands of Nicktoons and create a full length animated series.

Each episode lasts roughly 10/11 minutes and are usually shown in pairs to fill half-hour slots. This is very a much a storyboard-driven animation series as the producers rely heavily on storyboards to draft out the dialogue and action sequences in a scene. We are currently learning the precise and time-consuming art of storyboarding in our course and I know only too well how difficult it must be to use a storyboard template to draft out both dialogue and action!

Relying heavily on animatics, this show cleverly creates "conflicting emotions" with the intent to make the audience both happy and frightened simultaneously...