Commentary:Roswell that Ends Well (directors commentary)
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Roswell that Ends Well | |||
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Production number | 3ACV19 | ||
On DVD | Season 3 Disc 4 & Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection | ||
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Topics of Discussion
- Track intends to discuss animation.
- The Emmy for this episode was won between the recording of the previous commentary and this one.
- Largest corona they've had to render.
- Rich's episodes are always heavy on 3D.
- The episode plays out so that any progress that is made is toward screen right and setbacks are to the left.
- Roswell type stuff was mostly taken from the internet, Bill Morrison from Bongo Comics lent them some things that he had from a previous comic series.
- Process of animating an episode discussed at length.
- Everyone is very pleased by the explosion sequence.
- Which bits the software does for them.
- A picture of the empire state building is on the wall as an attempt to explain why Fry ended up in New York.
- The tank makes it look like a movie.
- Discussed the decoration of Mildred's house.
- Various effects discussed.
- Running overtime discussing a trick the animators played on each other during production of Crimes of the Hot.
Highlights / Quotes
Scott Vanzo: I remember, like, that effect is all done in 3D and I remember Rich was trying to describe it to me and I was like...
Rich Moore: What the hell are you talking about?
Scott Vanzo: So a red thing is happening and a blue thing is happening and they somehow come together?
Claudia Katz: We tried to go through the government but they were strangely uncooperative.
Unknown: That's the Ten Commandments on the wall. I put them there because so many of them are broken in this episode.
Matt Groening: Ones that are very rarely broken.
Goofs
- This commentary is exceedingly long, which has the effect of causing the DVD, when other audio tracks are used, to produce no audio or video for a few minutes after the episode.
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