Sit Down, Shut Up Premieres Tonight on Fox

[aimeekitty]

Hi, everyone! I almost forgot to post this!

The show I was working on, Sit Down, Shut Up premieres tonight on FOX ( April 19, 8:30/7:30C ) I hope you'll check it out!

The storyboards/animation were done by Rough Draft Studios, the same studio that did a lot of work on The Simpsons Movie as well as all of Futurama (both original series and movies, etc...)

I was Assistant Director for Stephen Sandoval ( Director) on two of the shows. Episode 4: Back in Time and another one (which the title hasn't been released on yet.) I also helped out with a lot of the other episodes. (I did assistant directing, storyboarding and animation timing, mainly.)

The show is really imaginative and quirky! (it's comedy/satire) I hope you enjoy it! Part of the fun is that the backgrounds are photographic, meaning that probably 90% of the backgrounds you see are photographed actual locations... with the 2d animated characters on top of it. In some ways, that was really challenging... but I had a lot of fun working on this show.

The official blurbs about the show:
"From the creator of Arrested Development... Sit Down, Shut Up is an animated comedy that focuses on at the lives of staff members at a high school in a small Florida fishing town (Go Baiters!) who never lose site of the fact that children must ALWAYS come second."

Comments

[princessblue791.livejournal.com]

I'll be watching religously. ;)

[spiralstairs.livejournal.com]

Hooray! My ass is planted for tonight! :)

[lokabrenna.livejournal.com]

Watchin' it right now! Really charming so far.

[vickimfox.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the British cartoon series, Bromwell High.

The animation style and quirky mix of odd-ball teachers have some similarities. Likewise for the big head/small body character design.

The difference seems to be SDSU is mainly from the teacher perspective while BH was mainly from the view of the three girls.

The use of real image background may take a little getting used to.

I'll be watching. It is better than the mess that Family Guy and American Dad have decayed into.

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

part of what I like about it is the segments of bizarre and when they allow for long awkward pauses.

I think even more so as the series progresses, it gets more interesting. :) I hope you'll enjoy it! We (the artists), though, have little control over the dialogue/story, we're just interpreting the script we get visually. I think we really got to do some fun and interesting things though with it.

[hinoai.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely check it out! Living overseas, I had never heard about this show, and I didn't know that it was animated when I saw it pop up where I access my normal tv shows, so I never woul d have looked twice. But I'm glad that you posted about it, I definitely will watch it now! ^^

[jinyo.livejournal.com]

I watched!
I liked it even more than I expected to! I hadn't realized that several of the writers as well as voice actors were veterans of "Arrested Development."
Plus, Nute Gunray from the Clone Wars series.

[theangrystar.livejournal.com]

Theres a lot of "Clone High" resemblance. I was able to watch the show sneaking it while working on shots from work (teehee).

But it's pretty good! I'm disappointed (and this isn't your fault) that the animation is shipped out, but it LOOKS good, so that's awesome. It seems like its got a lot of potential if Fox keeps letting it go, the first season is always the kind of foot in the water, and then it usually blows up from there for animation.

So here's hoping. I'll have to do an announcement when my show airs in a few weeks. :)

<3

[aimeekitty.livejournal.com]

pretty much all shows are shipped out now unfortunately. *_* But we did A LOT of poses and timing notes here, (not just normal storyboards, you know?) so I'm pretty happy with it. I think both the story and the art gets better as the show goes on too. (as we all get used to it.) It's always a bit of a test with the first show.

[theangrystar.livejournal.com]

I knoooow. I wish they weren't, of course, but I'm used to the fact that they are. I'm lucky to have gotten onto this show where we actually animate. But the show looks good!! And the timing is good too, so I'm glad you guys are taking control of it.

I'll keep watching. :D I'm excited to see how it comes about.