🇺🇸 Still Watching The Same Thesis Presentation As Last Time, Drawin’ Some Teachers Judgin’.

🇧🇷 Projeto de ilustração de Natal feito com a minha cara colega de estágio da Assessoria de Comunicação do @iffcamposcentro, @rapha.ellac — que fez o padrão maneiríssimo de flocos de neve do fundo. Deu trabalho, mas compensou. Esperamos ter passado a alegria da temporada ao pessoal da escola nesse fim de 2019! Muitas coisas por vir no futuro próximo. Será que você percebeu algo especial? #natal #natalatrasado #projeto #ilustração #iff #iffcampuscentro #árvoredeNatal #presentesdenatal #preenchaobranco #dinâmica #MuitolegalocaraqueescreveuJesusnaestrela https://www.instagram.com/p/B7UY7MwDYr0/?igshid=96m8tkoqyya1

🇺🇸 Hoping for a truly happy New Year. 🌠 Good grief, sorry for the weird coloring… I’ve a lot to learn with these colored charcoal pencils. But here’s to trying new things, I guess! 🥂 I also tried putting it in grayscale to see if it faired any better. Which do you guys prefer? 👀 🇧🇷 Esperando que realmente seja um feliz Ano Novo. 🌠 Que puxa, foi mal pelas cores meio estranhas… Ainda tenho muito que aprender com esses lápis de carvão coloridos. Mas um brinde a tentar coisas novas, né? 🥂 Também tentei colocar em escala de cinza pra ver se melhorava. Qual vocês preferem? 👀 . . . @snoopygrams @wildbrainstudios @nintendoamerica @nintendo_brasil . #sketch #rascunho #rascunhocolorido #coloredsketch #sketchbook #colorpencil #lapisdecor #lapisdecarvao #charcoalpencil #animalcrossing #peanuts #snoopy #charliebrown #mashup #happynewyear #newyearseve #newyears #vesperadeanonovo #anonovo #felizanonovo #reveillon #fanart #Happinessishopeforthefuture #Felicidadeéaesperançaparaofuturo https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm4RPV3uBbs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🇺🇸 Badicature of a friend too. 🇧🇷 Baraticatura de um amigo de novo.

🇺🇸 I love that Disney is also making Warner Bros. cartoons nowadays, haha. I dream of getting the chance of working with this team. 🇧🇷 É o máximo a Disney estar fazendo desenhos da Warner Bros. hoje em dia, haha. Eu sonho em ter a chance de trabalhar com essa equipe.
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🇺🇸 My little brother and my dog scuffle in a hammock. Moments to be remembered.
🇧🇷 Meu irmão caçula e meu cachorro se alvoroçam numa rede. Momentos a guardar na memória.

Mojo was so astounded by the girls’ dancing powers he forgot how to talk and now only remembers his own name. He may never be the same again.

And now a weird live PowerPuff Girls show.

Oh. Oh, I’ve seen this. I’m still utterly bewildered by it.

🇺🇸 Aww, the sweet smell of Minnie’s apple pie, still good after months on the window… (Bonus Little Marco included!)
🇧🇷 Ahh, o doce aroma da torta de maçã da Minnie, boa mesmo depois de meses na janela… (Bônus: Mini-Marco incluído!)

🇺🇸 After years of clamoring from the fans, here is Mr. Name’s enigmatic origin story: I wanted a blank character to try out cartoon faces and poses. He came to life and now looms over all my sketches. And the rest is history! 🇧🇷 Depois de anos de clamor dos fãs aqui está a enigmática história de origem do Sr. Nome: Eu queria um personagem genérico para testar caras e poses de cartoon. Ele criou vida e agora orbita todos os meus rascunhos. E o resto é história! #sketchbook #sketch #MrName #originstory #oldbutgold #OC #OriginalCharacter #cartooncharacter #cartoon #cartoonfaces #cartoonposing #characterposing #meta #Ijustcanthelpwantingtotellastiry https://www.instagram.com/p/B6YNPm7Jr30/?igshid=bqpoia8zbzhj

Hey, now.

Wander Over Yonder is one of the best cartoons I’ve ever had the bone-tickling joy of coming across. There was no episode that was bad for me—just ones more awesome than others!

You guys are the greatest in the galaxy.

Some thoughts on heavy serialization and continuity in kids cartoons.

Historically, Networks do not like serialization in comedy cartoons because serialized cartoons do not rate as high in the repeats as the stand alone cartoons do. They have found that once a viewer has watched an episode and got the next part of the story, they tend to not watch that same episode when it repeats. But if the show was just a simple funny cartoon they will watch it again, because they want to laugh at the jokes again. 

So for this reason, we as the show creators are oftentimes discouraged from producing serialized shows with heavy continuity. The Networks feel they need the episodes to be stand alone for the sake of repeats, ratings and for programming a 24 hour animation channel. This has been the case since I started making cartoons in the early 90′s.

A few years ago some comedy cartoons started integrating complex and serious plots into their shows, and it was a refreshing change from the status quo. Finally we thought this was our chance to tell deeper stories and when I first started Wander back in 2011, I asked if I could make it a serialized 22-minute show.  I was simply told no. 

The Network really wanted Wander to be produced in the classic, stand alone 11 minute format, because they felt that’s where they would get the most bang for their buck. And from a programming standpoint I could understand that.

So after producing a season of silly one off cartoons we got the pick up for season 2 and we asked if we could finally try and tell a bigger story with complex continuity.  The network was open to exploring that idea, but they didn’t want to lose the looseness of season 1. 

So a COMPROMISE was reached. We would create a continuity that thread through four 22-minute episodes that were to be scattered throughout the season. The 11-minute episodes in between would be loosely related to that arc, but would still stand alone so they could be repeated in any order.

I’m writing this because I’m seeing a lot of desire for the next piece of the puzzle, the next turn of the plot, the next big change and I will honestly tell you that will not really happen until the next 22-minute episode. The following 11-minute episodes will continue to be loosely related to the arc. For instance, Hater is no longer crushing on Dominator, Wander isn’t trying to get them together, and there will be some character insights that inform the 4 part arc, but there will also be some random one-offs that really have nothing to do with the arc at all.

Wander is still the silly and funny KIDS show that we started with season 1. It is not highly serialized, it is not extremely complex and serious as some of you wish it were.  I’m posting this because I really want people to enjoy the show for what it IS and not get mad at it for what it ISN’T.